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The Finer Details in Car Detailing - part 1
Interior Car Care
Research proves that body oils on interior surfaces can cause significant life-shortening damage to your car via body oil emission.
Perspiration can be harmful
A customer who jumps into their vehicle during the warmer weather wearing very little can cause serious damage to the interior surfaces of their car, truck or van.
The pH in perspiration is highly acidic and can damage a vehicles interior surface coatings, including:
Leather steering wheel covers
Shift knobs
Door panels
Arm rests
Remind your customers, often, of the potential for damage. This should motivate more frequent cleaning to safeguard high-risk areas.
Inform Your Customers
Your customers will appreciate understanding the full need for quick, convenient interior care. Once this is understood, inform them of the non-basics in car care.
You can assemble a package of after-care services. This will identify and then meet the unique needs of your customers. Offer this as a value-added price.
Vinyl Interior Detailing
A heat-weld method of vinyl interior work will yield the best results. This is a unique vinyl fusion process that re-grains or re-textures the repaired area. This process is so effective that it produces practically invisible results.
In order to achieve the desired heat-weld method in interior work, the detailer must first master the technique of color matching. Interested detailers can learn of this process using color matching guides and training videos. As far as detailing goes, this skill is a valuable one to have!
Stain Cleaning
Removing stains is a big part of car detailing.
Common and troublesome stains on the interior, carpet and seats, include:
? oil
? grease
? butter
? vegetable oil
? margarine
? cosmetics
? blood
Always use a neutral soap or neutral products with a pH of 7. You will avoid a chemical reaction with this soap.
Your best choice in cleaning solutions for these types of stains are solvent based and so should be used with great care.
Begin to clean the stains by scraping all excess and then reduce the stain to as small an area as possible. Try a plastic razor blade for this purpose. They work well. Next, gently dab your solvent cleaner onto the stain without ripping and it should start to come up. If there is no form of discoloration from this process then you can now wipe away gently.
Too complete, use a foam type upholstery cleaner and wipe. Finish with warm water on a rag and your stain will be cleaned.
Finish your "leveling" process with a swirl remover. Doing this will only give you a 50% chance of success; lower if they are already long since established. Offer this as a value-added price. |
