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Jakerooni · 01-22-08, 09:14

OK first off the thing that saves time is obviously having the right tools for the job. A heated powerwasher will literally take a hours job with the 2 bucket system down to about all of 5 minutes or so. Same way with a heated carpet extractor over the shop vac and scrub brush. So if it's taking you excessivly longer than you think it should to do a proper detail look into upgrading your equipment. A rotary will save oodles of time over hand buffing or even the PC/UDM polishing. Can you do with the hand wash 2 bucket method with a D/A and still get the same of like result as a pro set up with all the bells and whistles? Of course but the cost is time. What take you 10 hours I can get done in 4-5 hours.

But regardless... The very last thing you should ever worry about as a detailer is time. doing the job right is always more important than doing the job quick. If your customer satisfaction is 100% then start picking up little things here and there to take off some time. But if you don't get anything but estatic happy faces when the customer picks up their car (or you say it done) then keep refining your process until you've achieved it.

01-22-08, 09:14	#10 (permalink)
Jakerooni B&D Detailing Owner Jakerooni is offline Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Flint Michgan Posts: 865	Re: Timing of process - Into Detail OK first off the thing that saves time is obviously having the right tools for the job. A heated powerwasher will literally take a hours job with the 2 bucket system down to about all of 5 minutes or so. Same way with a heated carpet extractor over the shop vac and scrub brush. So if it's taking you excessivly longer than you think it should to do a proper detail look into upgrading your equipment. A rotary will save oodles of time over hand buffing or even the PC/UDM polishing. Can you do with the hand wash 2 bucket method with a D/A and still get the same of like result as a pro set up with all the bells and whistles? Of course but the cost is time. What take you 10 hours I can get done in 4-5 hours. But regardless... The very last thing you should ever worry about as a detailer is time. doing the job right is always more important than doing the job quick. If your customer satisfaction is 100% then start picking up little things here and there to take off some time. But if you don't get anything but estatic happy faces when the customer picks up their car (or you say it done) then keep refining your process until you've achieved it.