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Car wash and car detailing are both services related to cleaning and maintaining vehicles, but they differ significantly in terms of scope, depth, and attention to detail. Here's a brief overview of the key differences between the two:
1. Focus: Car wash primarily focuses on cleaning the exterior of the vehicle.
2. Process: A car wash typically involves using automated systems or manual labor to wash the car's exterior with water, soap, and brushes.
3. Services: It includes basic cleaning of the exterior, such as washing, rinsing, and drying, often offered in a quick and efficient manner.
4. Time: Car washes are usually faster and more convenient, suitable for regular maintenance to remove surface dirt and grime.
5. Detailing: Car wash does not involve in-depth cleaning or restoration of the vehicle's interior or exterior surfaces.
1. Focus: Car detailing involves both exterior and interior cleaning and restoration.
2. Process: Detailing is a meticulous and thorough process that goes beyond simple washing. It includes cleaning, polishing, and protecting various surfaces of the vehicle.
3. Services: Car detailing includes services like interior vacuuming, leather cleaning and conditioning, glass cleaning, paint correction, waxing, and ceramic coating application.
4. Time: Car detailing takes more time compared to a simple car wash, as it requires meticulous attention to detail and comprehensive cleaning processes.
5. Detailing: Car detailing aims to restore the vehicle's appearance and protect it from damage, providing a higher level of care and attention to detail
In summary, a car wash is a quick and basic cleaning of the vehicle's exterior, while car detailing is a more comprehensive and thorough cleaning and restoration process that covers both the interior and exterior surfaces of the car. Car detailing is recommended for those looking to maintain the pristine condition and value of their vehicle in the long term.
Whether it’s cleaning the interior surfaces like your seats and door panels, or whether it’s the exterior of your car like your paint, wheels, or engine bay, there’s a primary methodology we follow. Start with the least aggressive method first and go from there. We’re not the only ones that use this method, any professional car detailing business will follow this same process.
What does that mean?As an analogy, think about it like when you get a small cut on your leg. Is the first thought in your mind, “Call an ambulance, I need to go to the hospital and get surgery on my leg!”No, of course not.Your first thought is just to clean the small cut and put a band-aid over it. Within a few hours the minimal pain is gone and within a couple of days you’ll be back to normal. It’s the same concept we apply in detailing. If we’re going to remove a scratch from your vehicle, we’re not going to pull out the big guns on the very first try.That’ll most likely be overkill. We’ll start off with the least aggressive method which might be a cleaner and a towel. Did it come off? Does it look better? Do we need to continue? If we think we can get better results, we’ll move onto the next step. If that doesn’t work, we step it up again in aggressiveness. This ensures that we only use the least aggressive method every time it comes to working on your car. This help protect the integrity of the fabric and surfaces.
For one, you end up doing way more work than necessary to get the job done. Going back to the hospital example, imagine we just need to put a band-aid and we end up performing surgery. Second, it doesn’t allow you to see the true condition. If we’re cleaning an interior to get a stain out of the carpet and we immediately jump to the big machines and cleaners, it’s most likely going to come out. However, if we’d start with something a lot more simple like a towel and cleaner and the stain comes out, then we know how tough the stain actually was. Honestly, it’s the same end result for the customer. A clean car. But it is crucial for us as the professional to truly understand the level of cleaning we have to go through.That way we can offer the most genuine results to you, the customer. We don’t want to go out and service a customer and tell them it’s going to take 3 hours to complete the job, when in reality if we started with the least aggressive method to get the job done it can actually take 1 hour. You’ll see this all the time with auto mechanics. They always start with the most basic and simple solution to the problem. If your headlight bulb no longer works, they don’t immediately start checking all the wiring. They’ll first start with the light bulb and make sure it works. So when you hire us to clean your vehicle, you’ll know that the cleaning process we use is the option to get the best results without sacrificing the quality of the job or your vehicle.
That’s why we get called out a lot to work on vehicles that were recently “detailed". A customer will want their car waxed but then they’ll end up with a negatively noticeable difference in their paint then what they originally had. That’s because the “detailer” used a rotary machine to apply the wax, they used the improper tools and methods, they went way too aggressive, and now the paint doesn’t look as nice. Customers will ask us:
Since we need to go through our checklist of least aggressive, we hardly ever say, “Yes we can.” Because maybe we can’t. Maybe of the four methods we can use to remove a scratch, the fourth method only take out 60% of the scratch. As you can tell, this wasn’t about telling you the exact tools and products that we use. It’s all going to depend on the size, condition, and results we’re going for. However, all that is dictated by the process of starting with the least aggressive method first and working from there.
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