I opened my business. Working out of my driveway/garage. Not the best setup yet but I can't sit and wait for the best setup. I have my first customer bringing his 2004 Corvette this coming weekend. AND he wants me to come to his place to detail four other vehicles. Words of wisdom from Yoda: "Do or do not. There is no try." Thanks Oscar. You and other detailers have motivated me to make this a reality!
@Brandon if he wants a multi car discount apply it to the last car not the first. Its SOOO common for people to say 'man if you do a awesome job for $x (discounted price) I'll bring you all these other cars...detailer does it then doesnt get the other cars. Stick to solid prices that work out to at least $50/hr then apply discounts to the last car he brings, not the first. I'll do something like give them 15% credit toward the next job and let them stack the credits to all apply to one car. So if today's job is $300 that's $45 credit, if tomorrow is $400 job that's $60 credit....gives him $105 off the 3rd job....something like that. Congrats on starting your business!
I do wranglers every week . Really popular up here in vt . They are not a easy detail. A ton of nooks and crannies inside and out. He said around 7 hrs . That would be about right . I'm doing them with very similar processes for around 500 give or take . Try to stay around my 75 per hr goal . Ofcourse I dont have the overhead he has . That can make a huge difference to anybody's bottom line.
Oscar, would you happen to have a training guide tutorial? I’m about to start hiring, but do I show them as we go? Give them a book and test? Any ideas or suggestions?
I worked at a car wash/detail center and they made me vacuum on day one the minute I clocked in and I don’t think reading a book can replace the actual hands on experience of getting down and dirty. Just my 2 cents
@@ElJA3III look for some of his old videos, he writes detailed SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) that outlines the entire process with great detail and that is the guide when detailing. But start someone out doing specific tasks so they get good and fast before giving them a whole job.
The TJ had only the Sahara edition that had any real style from the previous generation CJ-5 and CJ-7. I have an '05 TJ Rocky Mountain that is this boring black inside out. And I can't stand the boring, lazy step that Chrysler did to the majority of the TJ generation. I had my TJ detailed and it looked okay for maybe 2 weeks, then you quickly realize, it was a total waste of money! I am now going to do what I should have done instead of the detail, paint it cobalt blue with a grey soft top, with black Line X fender flares and Raptor Liner bumpers, and do the interior in matching exterior blue, black and grey. Giving this boring TJ the great color scheme of the CJ-7 Laredo.
How many pads did you use using an all in one product? Did you change them every quarter of the vehicle or you don't have since you are using an all in one product? Thank you in advance
Oscar, How does your team uee the saphire tool for carpet extraction which has a 10 foot hose on a truck that is "lifted"? How do you make the hose reach up so high? Or do you use another tool in Instances like this?
Damn I would of done that jeep at 650$ so dose that mean I’m charging less? Also a quick tip bro 3D has alot of fillers in its AIO I recommend changing to Menzerna, Angel Wax or Carpro there AIO are good and when you wash the car again it won’t wash off with every wash the vehicle gets. Great video bro.
I have used HD Speed for four years and can tell you with all certainty that it does not ‘wash off’. The correction you see under a light will last. Customer after customer comes back to me year after year because they love the Speed treatment.
@@Erix7810 not where I am here in AZ it does not last and it says in the back of the label it contains fillers . I’ve used 3D when it came out I even have till this day there HD Speed polisher that thing was awesome I love it but I don’t like that 3Dspeed polish it’s Assss
Why underchasis is usually neglected by the detailers or the customer. If all this is done in a workshop than the detailer should have atleast washed it
Because it's way more time that the customer would have to be paying for, and they would rather put that money to something else. And really to do it right you really need a lift.
@@DetailGroove Exactly! If you tell the customer "This is what we're gonna do and this is how much you're going to pay." The customer simply walks away! Not good business.
Yeah always let them know you are willing to negotiate up NOT down or if they insist then ask them what side of the car the don’t want you to clean. Or they can do it themselves 🤣
Damn dude you finesse that customer real good out of $900 lol what's your basically describing in this video and showing is about $400 worth of work. For $900 out here at a 4.9 star's detailing shop I get 3 step paint correction with ceramic coating and interior no engine Bay.
@@DetailGroove I think you already answed that question you finessed them out of nine bills and they were stupid enough to payed that without shopping around.
So you're saying the customer is so stupid and ignorant that he didn't bother checking other detailers websites? I was the only website he visited and detailer he called. C'mon man lol
Theres are vastly different level of work in the detailers industry. No one with a shop is doing a 3 stage correction with a quality coating and interior work for $900....if they do they are on thier way out of business and just dont realize it. It's just far far too many labor hours and materials. Now a single stage polish job with a garbage coating I can see, thats pretty much what he did in the video swapping the coating time for engine bay time. But not 2-3 stages bro, that's far to many hours and would literally be $900 with of only polishing all by itself. Now, you may be using a hack detailer without realizing it and they do things far to fast endangering the paint and not doing near the quality they should...very likely since that's 85% of them.
There is zero reason that detail should have broken $400-450. $900 is absolutely ridiculous and that customer deserves to get taken advantage of if they paid it.
The cleaning is worth $400-$450 plus the polishing on top. I dont know how many hours they had in it, but I'd have spent 2 days on it and charged about $800....but they have way more expensive overhead than me.
$400? Are you chasing after $25/hr? You’re not getting anywhere charging that for this type of job. Interior dialed in (pet hair), engine cleaned (not an easy engine bay), and AIO on a Jeep Wrangler body? I’d be at $680 and I’d have to hustle.
The pricing model is weird. I can't imagine working with any professional vendor that would charge their clients this way and I have to wonder if this is dubious enough to be considered a potential UDAAP violation. If they can't give a quote on their services that's accurate before doing the work and are instead asking "what're you willing to pay?" and "doing 'as much as they can within that budget'" (whatever that really means), that seems like an outrageously easy way to quietly inflate/gouge customers that don't know better.
Damn 900 and it took you guys 6- 7 hrs smh i would of had it done in 3 hrs bro top and bottom inside and outside and a buff if needed / polish and wax and out he would gave me a tip of $300
Really depends on how bad it is and how hard to get it out...is it EVERYWHERE or just in a small area, is it embedded or just laying on top. Sometimes pet hair only adds like 30 minutes, sometimes it adds several hours....you just have to convert the work to labor hours and labor rate....not a fixed price. You may upcharge $50 then spend 3 extra hours and lose money.
