Muttley Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Seen alot of detailing on here, all of them top quality! Was interested to see what the professionals thought of this... http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/20072010/36/br ... ash-0.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Iv booked the Zed in next week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vik54 Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Polishing FIVE times - surely there's no laquer left at the end I think he must have OCD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I saw this in the paper the other day....... 30 year old lad, still living with his parents, so he converted their garage into his workshop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggy Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 If i was going to spend that amount of money id go to miracle detail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maccaman Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 A woman I work with told me about this today. Apparently you can get a full Brazilian wax for £8k, now that is something I would have to see I remember seeing a tv report on a guy a few years ago that worked on high end cars. It might have been Top Gear when they did proper reports (yes it's that long ago). He had waxes that cost a fortune for a small tub and were applied with his hand. Wasn't as OCD as this guy though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggy Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 yeah that was Paul Dalton of miracle detail, Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MiracleDetail?feature=chclk watch some of the HD videos, there incredible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V88 REG Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 well the fact that it takes him 250 hours to clean the cars, no wonder he lives with his mum, Hes prob never seen the light of day. Dont think he get as many phone calls as most high end valeters, but u neva know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 A woman I work with told me about this today. Apparently you can get a full Brazilian wax for £8k, now that is something I would have to see How hairy...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alessandro Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aust350z Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Damn British. Costs us £9 more here down under. http://www.finalinspection.com.au/auto- ... iling.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie1985rca Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Charging £7k a pop washing super cars, you would have thought he would have found a more sensible place for his laptop? Or is that just me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazhull8474 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Think we should see if we can get a group buy or forum discount lol!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 And he still goes to screwfix and buys £20 halogens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tez162003 Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 ridiculous. looks no different to any other average joe who knows a few things about detailing. Thing that really pi**es me off is people who read a thing or 2 on a detailing forum, do half a car, and then think there the best pro out there, and try advertise for business. i know of a few couple of people who actually detail cars occasionally yet they get someone else to do there own? If your not confident enough to do your own car dont work on others. Anyway, if you want a good detail. avoid 7k washes, all a big con. just get well known company to do it for the usual going rate of 500 - 600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-B Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 How outragous, would be cheaper to trash the paint, get it resprayed, go on holiday and still have change for some fuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maz0 Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 ridiculous. looks no different to any other average joe who knows a few things about detailing. Thing that really pi**es me off is people who read a thing or 2 on a detailing forum, do half a car, and then think there the best pro out there, and try advertise for business. i know of a few couple of people who actually detail cars occasionally yet they get someone else to do there own? If your not confident enough to do your own car dont work on others. Anyway, if you want a good detail. avoid 7k washes, all a big con. just get well known company to do it for the usual going rate of 500 - 600 If he actually does take 250 hours to remove all the microscopic scratches and charges £7000 for it, then he's only making £28 per hour for a job he might only get every couple of weeks, or month. Plus the cost of 5 grand waxes etc, maybe it's not that lucrative? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggy Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Charging £7k a pop washing super cars, you would have thought he would have found a more sensible place for his laptop? Or is that just me? Yeah but all joking aside, what a garage!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tez162003 Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 He couldnt do that detail on the same car more than once. He must remove a fair amount of clear with so many passes, regardless of how mild they are. Even if i were the best there was, 7k... you'd have to be hard pushed to show 7k worth of car cleaning on a car. I feel abit guilty asking for couple hundred or so for a full detail. End of the day, still alot of money for a clean car. regardless of corrections etc. Plus 8k waxes.. he only uses a small amount on a car, so only 200 worth of wax say. so £6800 profit.. plus those pots are refillable for life included in the 8k price (just has to be sent back to USA for refill. so you get hit with import charges on 8k product each time) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 so £6800 profit.. You go to the Mike Brewer Wheeler Dealers school of accountancy? I'm sure he has loads of other overheads and his time has to be accounted for...... The guy is maybe up there with Paul Dalton but I think 7k is a little ambitious. Fair play if he can get away with it though..... It's amazing when you read DW and people think they can be a pro and be millionaires detailing. I'm sure they make a decent (average) wage but the difference is that most will love what they're doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie1985rca Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 I did a quick calculation of his before overhead income (very very sad i know but it interested me) 52 weeks in a year. average person takes maybe combined 5 weeks holiday a year (bank hollidays, christmas etc) leaving 47 weeks * 5 working days= 235 working days average person works 8 hours (excluding lunch) but seeing as he lives at home and obviously has a bit of OCD i said 10 235 days * 10 hours working day = 2350 hours 250 hours per car = 2350 / 250 = 9 cars a year * average of £7,000/car = £63,000 per year you have to factor in his set up costs - converting his garage, the top quality tiles, the first purchase of the massively expensive cleaning products then yearly overheads - electricity, refills of the products (or import taxes if the refil is free) and the replacements of all the clothes etc he must go through It also assumes that he has a car booked in every 5 weeks and doesn't work weekends (but the holliday weeks can be taken as part of the down time between jobs so its very sad that this actually interested me and is probably fairly off the actual figure but it did plus i'm in a different country to both the wife and car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maz0 Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 I did a quick calculation of his before overhead income (very very sad i know but it interested me) 52 weeks in a year. average person takes maybe combined 5 weeks holiday a year (bank hollidays, christmas etc) leaving 47 weeks * 5 working days= 235 working days average person works 8 hours (excluding lunch) but seeing as he lives at home and obviously has a bit of OCD i said 10 235 days * 10 hours working day = 2350 hours 250 hours per car = 2350 / 250 = 9 cars a year * average of £7,000/car = £63,000 per year you have to factor in his set up costs - converting his garage, the top quality tiles, the first purchase of the massively expensive cleaning products then yearly overheads - electricity, refills of the products (or import taxes if the refil is free) and the replacements of all the clothes etc he must go through It also assumes that he has a car booked in every 5 weeks and doesn't work weekends (but the holliday weeks can be taken as part of the down time between jobs so its very sad that this actually interested me and is probably fairly off the actual figure but it did plus i'm in a different country to both the wife and car He would probably take in more if he was based on a busy high street, washing drive in cars for 5 quid a pop and had a couple of guys working for him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie1985rca Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 I did a quick calculation of his before overhead income (very very sad i know but it interested me) 52 weeks in a year. average person takes maybe combined 5 weeks holiday a year (bank hollidays, christmas etc) leaving 47 weeks * 5 working days= 235 working days average person works 8 hours (excluding lunch) but seeing as he lives at home and obviously has a bit of OCD i said 10 235 days * 10 hours working day = 2350 hours 250 hours per car = 2350 / 250 = 9 cars a year * average of £7,000/car = £63,000 per year you have to factor in his set up costs - converting his garage, the top quality tiles, the first purchase of the massively expensive cleaning products then yearly overheads - electricity, refills of the products (or import taxes if the refil is free) and the replacements of all the clothes etc he must go through It also assumes that he has a car booked in every 5 weeks and doesn't work weekends (but the holliday weeks can be taken as part of the down time between jobs so its very sad that this actually interested me and is probably fairly off the actual figure but it did plus i'm in a different country to both the wife and car He would probably take in more if he was based on a busy high street, washing drive in cars for 5 quid a pop and had a couple of guys working for him haha nice observation. i got a bit blinded by his big jobs also that is assuming his obvious OCD isn't so bad it would stop him from doing his OTT job on every car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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