Hi guys, One questions for you. Do you know Bud Abraham (Executive Director, INTERNATIONAL DETAILING ASSOCIATION)? Did you hear about it? If you hear about it, what do you think about his detailing techniques and methods? Thanks!
I've seen him on some other (Romanian?) detailing forum, if my memory serves me right he was requesting people join his questionable association for a fee. Sounds like a scam to me. Other than that, never heard of him or his so called association.
I saw that website. But, he told that he is detailing business for 40 years and speak about detailing chemicals, etc. I had not heard about it until 2 weeks ago. And I thought that I will clear my mind if I will ask DB members. Maybe a DB Pro will know something about it. If not, no problem.
When I read the title to this thread I just knew it would be a good one....:cig: I'm still waiting on the punch line :chips: I should've started this association years ago :duh:
Here is a more recent post about his "association". prediction - your detail business will not survive in the long run ! - Autopia.org
Bud Abraham is a person that is quite well know in the production/car wash side of the business. Take a look below: RL "Bud" Abraham is the founder and president of DETAIL PLUS Car Appearance Systems, the leading manufacturer and supplier of detailing equipment and related products and training. He has been involved in the car appearance industry for almost 40 years as an operator, distributor, manufacturer and consultant. He has personally designed and built car care centers including detailing and car wash all over the world, and has owned and personally operated his own detail centers and automatic carwash facilities. He was founder and first executive director of the Professional Detailing Association until it merge with the International Carwash & Detailing Association. He presently serves on the Board of Directors of both the International Carwash & Detailing Association and the Western Carwash Association. He currently serves as Executive Director of the International Detailing Association. Besides conducting his own seminars and training sessions on detailing and car care around the world, he also is a regular speaker at all of the major automotive service industry trade shows. As well, he conducts special detail training sessions for Toyota Motors to certify their dealership detailers to work on Toyota Certified vehicles. In addition he writes regular columns on detailing and car care for all of the major automotive service industry trade journals including: Professional Carwashing & Detailing; Detailer's Digest; Auto Remarketing; Body Shop Business; National Oil & Lube News. His personal goal is to see the auto detailing service recognized one day as a legitimate auto service by manufacturers, dealers and the public.
doesn't look like you do do you... lol... Like I always said I'm here for you guys.... I've been reading about Bud since I was about 15 or so....and yup there is a completely different side of automotive car care that most don't know about ; )
i personally never met him so I don't know I can tell you that detail plus has been around for awhile and Bud has been published in many industry magazines. I just think the detailing association was not really a good move.
Phil, did you read any of Bud's detailing articles? If yes, do you like it, do you agree with his detailing methods? I just want to make a think about him.
Auto Detailing Industry Information by Bud Abraham - Auto Detailing Network - Detail Business Information and Resources
So after clicking that link, then a couple others, I got to autodetailingnetworkforums dot com. I did some peeking around, saw pics o fsome of the guys' setups, and I saw some decent stuff (meg's, optimum, metabo, etc.) so I was going to join. Then I saw renny doyle was a moderator.
pektel, if you want to grow as a detailer you should overlook the fact that someone you may not agree with is on there. I know there are a lot of valuable topics on that forum.
i can get all i need and more from db, thanks. It's not that someone i don't agree with is simply "on there". He's a mod. I have read some negative things about him on more than one forum. I would rather just not join and avoid drama.
