Interior first? Exterior first? What's the best process for detailing? How can I be faster?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ย. 2024
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There's a lot involved with choosing the best process for efficiency with auto detailing. A lot of factors have to be considered- What is the weather for the day? Humid? Cold? Well the carpets have time to dry if you shampoo them later in the day? How heavily soiled is the interior? Is there lots of pet hair? Are you needing to polish the exterior or is the exterior heavily soiled? How big is the vehicle? Are you working out in the sun where you will have to battle water spots when it's wiser to do the exterior first before the sun becomes an issue? All of these questions affect how I determine my order or process. Either way, get into a routine, learn your chemicals, equipment and establish a routine. It doesn't have to be rigid but it also doesn't need to change every vehicle. Make a list, check things off and get into the groove! Hope this helps some of you out. What's your process? What ways do you feel you're efficient or could improve?
You are a fresh breath of air just seeing women in the industry is a mile stone keep up the amazing work you do I never miss an episode
We don’t prepare to fail,we fail to prepare. Very informative.
Sch is open and the professor is IN! Boom. That was a great explanation of your strategy. I've never seen that explained so well. 👊😎
As I do detailing on the side this is very informative and helpful thank you 😊 I'm also in PA. Looking forward to seeing more of your vids.
This process would be excellent to make a checklist of the steps your routinely do and give a copy to potential new customers and each customers that you just did there car to realize all the work you did for your fee. Chelsea a great video . I would never thought use the pressure washer on the door jambs with Rage . Thanks
Great idea!
If I’m giving my truck the full monte, I do the exterior first, then interior. This way when I open the doors, I use detailer spray to clean and dry all the door jambs at the time I get into the interior. 👍🏻
Madame Chelsea you're right since sometimes we have to change the order from interior to exterior or vice versa. Your checklist resembles mine but in mine I have listed items in the vehicle so I don't miss anything. Being in our island in the Caribbean were we don't have the issue of winter, but we still have to deal with heat, sun, humidity (here is average 88%) and rain as an issue because starts raining all of the sudden. Doing detailing as a side job, I schedule customers weekdays during nights and weekends after 2 PM. This way my clients receive their vehicles in the morning giving me time for everything to dry. If the vehicle is coated it has time to cure and not get water. Having a regular job during the day, I had to develop a checklist that works for me but on weekdays my sleep time is less so I have to verify better how the vehicle is, in order to use the best of my time to detail.
Thanks for your video and sharing your methods since we have to develop and use them like playing chess, specially when we have kids(I have 4 sons). Like Brian from Apex Detail says "Preparation is key".
Xoxo from Puerto Rico 👍🇵🇷
Great video! Wish I would’ve seen this when I started detailing this is about exactly what I’ve come up with also👏🏽
I don't usually clean engines any longer,but, that used to be My starting point...to the interior,door jambs,trunk jambs,fuel door, clay/de-con,wash,dry,compound,polish,coat,etc...final wipe to remove dust...tire dressing/windows are always last.
Excellent Video! Great job explaining your process. I sincerely appreciate it! Keep the videos coming!
Great video Chelsea! I always start with blowing out & vacuuming to not only get it out of the way but to keep from getting loose dirt & dust on the exterior once it’s washed. Once I get vacuuming done I then wash, clay, blow out & dry the exterior. I do this before cleaning the interior because like you I pressure wash door jambs so to keep from doubling back I do it this way. After the exterior is cleaned & dry I then clean the interior & do the finishing touches like glass, interior detailer final vacuum etc. finally I go back to the exterior & seal, tire shine, exhaust polish, windows etc. I have found atleast for me…that this is the most efficient way to do a full detail without doubling back & repeating work.😁👍
I like doing the exterior first, that way I can pressure wash door jambs and not have to go back over the interior, unless I’m shampooing or depending on weather conditions (early morning/afternoon) It’s a small thing but that’s how I make my decision.
Liking the itemized detail here.
It puts into prospect the proper steps to get the interior done while maximizing your time. Great vid Chelsea.
Great video. Informative tutorial on how to tackle a full detail. Thinking ahead can make the job run a little smoother. Plus saving time is a massive benefit. Audio sounded nice and clear too. Thank you.
Hey. Just started watching and I am hooked. I’m an automotive wholesaler and you’ve opened up a world of opportunity. Thank you so much. One suggestion; could you please leave links to the products? Hopefully you can gain sponsorship from these companies. Keep up the great work!
I try to when possible. I will work on that for future videos though to be more consistent.
Thank you for sharing your techniques it will help me more productive and saved me more time.
Yay another great video with Real Content. About tips on being more profitable. Thank you u are awesome.
I’m an ONR door jamb guy myself lol my biggest issue is no garage, it’s a major roadblock.
This is so helpful thank you. Any ideas aswel as for weather conditions and jobs to do for the day. (Polishing and correcting).
Just found you from the FB group. Nice to see another fellow PA detailer. Anyways great video. Gonna see what else you have. Thank you
Nice video again. Nice idea to use whiteboard!
Depend of job and temperature, I do interior first in am. If I work in pm, I start with exterior. 11 am to 1 pm the sun ☀️ oufffff HOT ... and I have my one push Canopy 😜
I have exactly , exactly the same order of you interior and exterior process .... 😳 With experience , I learn that if I clean Plastic and then shampoo, I put solutions everywhere on my clean plastics 😬 Rookie mistake ! 😜
Very helpful video, Chelsea! I'm just a weekend warrior, but I still want do be as efficient as I can be. It's hot here in Tennessee, and I find that I'm dripping sweat all in/on my car be the time I'm done. So I want to finish as quickly as possible! A quick question: when you're pressure washing the door jambs, how do you keep from spraying water into the interior? Thanks!
You may a little thats why I do them first and do a quick wipe with a drying towel or microfiber. The short sprayer helps control overspray but its on plastic and no more or less than you'd get opening your door in the rain.
Thank you Chelsea! I am a hobbyist, setting up my entire garage to do really nice details for my family and friends. This video was so incredibly helpful for a novice like me I have bought almost everything you recommended so far LOL Superior Products in loving my credit card about now
Thank your for your detailed explanation, this is a video not many detailers want to make, so thank you for making this video! I also do my door jams first regardless of interior or exterior detail it'll always bite you in the butt if you don't do them first.
The question I have for you is, when you shampoo and then do your plastic surfaces how do you clean them with out ending up all wet from the moist fabrics? Thanks!
definitely takes a little bit of effort to control overspray but I'm not saturating my plastics that much but I'd rather shampoo first because if I've already cleaned my plastics and shampoo I'm more likely to get overspray from shampooing than from cleaning plastics. A quick wipe with the microfiber removes any overspray from the seats and carpets. It's unavoidable that you're going to get overspray on either surface when you're cleaning them but I find there's less if I do shampooing first then plastics versus plastics first then shampooing.
Very helpful thank you. I can't recall if you did a video on how you got your first customers and the first year or so how did you ramp up customer inflow? Thank you!
I must compliment you on your process. Its well thought out and is the logical way to make sure your as efficient as possible. Its obvious you have alot of experience. What state do you work out of? I'm in florida.
PA
Roughly what would the price be for this package? I did a similar job recently, and certainly didn't charge enough.
Starting price for a full detail on a sedan starts at $300 and it about a 5 hr appointment
Great video chealsea 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Great informative video
What do you use for ozone treatment and how do you do it. Might be a good video in the future.
Just my opinion and to each his/her own.. There are a few reasons I always start on the exterior, well, my go to first thing is always tires, rims, wells engine etc. 1st, water in the door jambs, after drying the exterior including the rims, I open one side at a time and clean the jambs. 2nd, next on the interior gives the vehicle plenty of time to dry before applying whichever paint protectio. (never fun polishing a vehicle while water is still dripping out of somewhere). The last 2 things I always do is windows and final, dress tires. Sometimes you will get sling from waxes, compounds etc on the glass so that's just one of the last steps, I never did like opening and closing the doors more than once, also, could never go from tire shine to windows, just seems wrong! HA! So shiney tires was always the final step besides maybe a final inspection. This is just how I've learned to shave some time, I could be wrong so if anyone has a better way please tell me, I've only been detailing professionally since 1992. ;)
Forgot! I always pull the mats out 1st if I'm doing a full interior shampoo! Sometimes its better to pressure wash them, then it leaves plenty of time for them to dry whilst doing the rest of the vehicle.
Badass as always chels
Are you open to doing some training/coaching (for compensation of course)?
Always open to helping others learn. I have much to learn myself but if I can help I will.
I know you must be busy, but hoping you could answer my question about ozone treatment. Thanks. Really like your videos.
What's your question?
Your ozone video answered my question about your procedure for car ozone treatment. Thanks
I love your process and how you broke it down but god damn you use a lot of different products......you and my girlfriend might be the best women detailers I know of. You two would kill it together.
Omg I just asked this to myself!
Hey Chelsea sorry I'm late to this one
3rd from Puerto Rico 👍🇵🇷
I do inside always first
If you do your jambs first Chelsea, then aren’t you wiping down the jambs twice, because don’t you dry them off after the washing too, right? Maybe you like jambs though! 😁
I do a touchless rinse initially to blow grease and dirt off and then after washing and rinsing dry them off with my towel so technically I'm only touching them once but find it deep cleans better and minimizes the risk of scratching if I just dry them after washing
Attention 2 Details w/ Chelsea 👍🏻 very nice. What is your touchless wash product of choice?
Tundra Whisperer she used rage in her video from a few days ago. Look at the more recent video
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Great plan! What’s Dark Fury? How do you dilute it for door jams? I’ll look for a video of this on your channel.
Superior Products Rage which is now called Dark Fury. I dilute it 4:1 for door jambs.