My small group leader from church wanted me to detail his VW Jetta...I need the money but he's done so much for our small group and so much for me personally I just charged him $45, so I could make a little money but not charge him too much. I decided I'd do as much for his car as I could in the five hours that I had to work with it and then just charge that price. I think it turned out well for the condition that it was in--it was trashed. He parks under trees, so there was lots of debris all in the doors and stuff, and this gross tar residue in the door jambs. I went through more mf towels on this car than any other vehicle that I've ever done before. I have this collection of extremely soiled Costco microfibers that I keep thinking I should throw out...until I see a car that is this dirty, and realize that they still have a use. It only had about 117,000 miles on it, but the car was falling apart--it has had a rough life. Anyway, onto processes and some pictures! Processes: Exterior: Bird crap and bugs treated with megs APC 4:1 Washed with ONR for soap and DI sheepskin mitt. Wheels cleaned with Megs Wheel Brightener and various brushes Wheel wells cleaned with Megs APC 4:1 Clayed with ONR clay lube and Megs clay bar. Waxed with Megs Gold Class wax--it fills swirls nicely and I didn't feel like putting a super high-quality wax on this thing Tires dressed with Megs Hot Shine liquid spray, 'cos I'm cheap Rain-X on the windshield; his wipers don't work Interior Vacuumed Door jambs cleaned with Megs APC 4:1, they were NASTY Windows cleaned with Stoner Invisible Glass All plastics cleaned with Megs APC 4:1 Dashboard dusted and cleaned, again with Megs APC 4:1 This was my first time using ONR, I love it! I had a lot of fun doing this car, now onto the pictures! Before: Aaaarrrggghhh! Swirls! This car has been washed at many automatic washes...and the squeegees you use to wash your windshield at gas stations :yikes: Afters! After half the hood, the rest was as bad or worse. I only had time to get the hood, roof, trunk, and half of one side done unfortunately, or I would've clayed the whole thing. I had a before picture of this area, but it didn't show up when I uploaded everything to photobucket. :shead: No, he doesn't have a gas cap. This was really filthy...it was hard to get in all the little crevices. It's far from perfect, but I was happy with the car, and the owner was thrilled with my work as well. Clark
Man tell him cleanliness is next to godliness:gross: it might give him an incentive to keep it clean.:thumb: good work seeing as how bad it was.
You just saved the owner like a grand or more on resale and saved him a tetanus shot. Good save...that looked like a challenging one.
haha thanks everyone! Comments like that keep me going on filthy cars like this I told him that the lack of a gas cap would cause him to lose gas, and he said "OH. That's why I've been getting crappy gas mileage!" So he's gonna start looking for a new gas cap soon. And yeah, there's a check engine light...and a brake warning light, made me slightly nervous picking it up and driving it back. I don't think I'm getting a tip (he's a college kid, not a ton of money), but that's fine with me, he's an awesome guy that's always been there for me, this was the least I could do for him.
Solid ethics for detailing such a filthy car for so little. For 5 hours you've done a great job. I hope the owner appreciates what you've done and shows it by giving it a little more tlc in the future.
