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No redundancy here, sure you may feel that way because it's day to day work for you and going through these "extra" steps is just more work when you're trying to just get cars done. This write up was originally geared for my customers, who asked how to maintain their cars the way I do. I was a little late in doing so but none-the less got it done, this process helps to extend the benefits and the life of a proper detail once it leaves my garage. Simply put, this is the way I maintain my cars, and the cars that get done by me.

I don't doubt you Keith, but I still don't see your need to bash on myself or my work which I have gotten no complaints about to this day. I've had customers return to the dealerships I worked at looking for "the guy who did my car last time" and what have you, I built myself a reputation to the point other dealerships were calling to hire me which was great for my paycheck at the time. This also shows where our customer base varies, my customers come to me for my attention to detail and my abilities (which you and I both learn more everyday) to get their car DETAILED. Not clean, but restored, much like the BMW I posted when he was contemplating a respray and ended up saving....7k by coming to me.

I've done plenty of trade-in, driven to the ground used cars and they're great for showing how quickly to revive a car, but when you can take a new car or an exotic thats already clean and make it BETTER, that's where the seperation starts. Anyone can make a beaten car new, not many can make a new car, newer. A lot of that lies in the proper prep, the quality materials and the correct processes, techniques and so on. Don't see this as my lecturing you on what you may already know, but as a matter of explaining our lines of work to those reading these posts.

I can agree with you that most customers will see in the end that its "cleaned up" but again, thats why people pay extra to make sure it's flawless, which I can and do provide on a consistent basis.