What do you mobile guys charge????

[HiDef Detailer]

I try to stick with package system as much as possible. Customers seem to understand and appreciate simple bundled services. My prices and descriptions are as follows:

Executive Wash...the wash for the busy professional.
Prices: Cars - $35.00 & up Trucks/SUVs - $45.00 & up
Exterior: Gentle hand wash with premium shampoo, dried with scratch-free microfiber towels. Tires dressed, ext. glass cleaned.

Interior: Floor mats vacuumed, dash dusted, Interior glass wiped cleaned.



Recommended weekly.


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Sport Wash...hand wash perfection.
Prices: Cars - $50.00 & up Trucks/SUVs - $65.00 & up


Exterior: Same as above with the addition of wheels cleaned, tires dressed, ext. glass cleaned and application of high grade spray wax/sealant.

Interior: Floor mats vacuumed, dash dusted and conditioned. Interior glass cleaned.

- Recommended monthly.




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Show & Shine Detail...our most popular package.
Prices: Cars - $140.00 & up Trucks/SUVs - $175.00 & up


Exterior: Same as above with addition of bug and tar removal and our Premium 1-Step Polish/Wax applied by hand and buffed to a gleaming finish.

Interior: Same as above.



- Recommended every two months.


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Luxury Detail...show your car how much you care.
Prices: Cars - $200.00 & up Trucks/SUVs - $250.00 & up


Exterior: In addition to above we’ll Clay Bar your car’s paint to remove embedded dirt, tar, sap and droppings that dull your shine, followed by our 2-Step Paint Recondition Process of premium polishes and 100% pure Carnauba Wax.

Interior: Same as above with addition of floor mat shampoo, leather surfaces conditioned and fragrance scent added.

- Recommended quarterly.




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The Hi Def Detail...the detail so good we stake our name on it.
Prices: Call for quote*

Exterior: Complete prep wash including engine detail, chrome wheels and trim and windows polished. We top it all off with our 3-Step Paint Rejuvenation Process which will remove unsightly swirl marks and scratches, polished to brilliance and finished with the protection of a 6-month Paint Sealent.

Interior: Same as above with addition of shampoo carpet and seats, stains removed.

- Recommended annually.


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Ala Carte Services
Engine Detail - $40.00



Full Clay Bar - $50.00



Spot Clay Bar - $25.00



Full Wheel Detail - $60.00



Leather Seat Conditioning - $30.00



Upholstery Stain Removal - $20.00



Upholstery Shampoo (starting at) - $40.00



Interior Detail (starting at) - $80.00



Exterior Detail (starting at) - $100.00

*Extra charges for oversized and excessively dirty vehicles. Final estimate provided upon inspection.

[Showroom Shine]

I use to think that you guys were over priced,but after detailing for 20 plus years,I know why we charge what we do. My hourly rate is around $40 to $50.









Showroom Shine Auto Detailing LLC

[TTWAGN]

Originally Posted by jsatek

This is for the guys with “menu” style pricing:

Do you think clients know anything about why they would want any of these services? Questions I can right off the bat are: How is a glaze for $25 going to benefit my car? What is an “interior shampoo” for $22.50?
Too many choices equals too much confusion in my experience.

I couldn't agree more, some of these menu's are so complicated and confusing that it may even turn away customers or they wont return as the detail wasn't as expected.

DETAILING PACKAGES

Mini Detail - $99

• Hand wash using filtered rainwater
• Road film, bugs and tar removed
• Dried using soft microfibre cloths
• Wheels cleaned & dressed
• Interior vacuumed
• Exterior paint polish
• Hand applied wax
• Improved gloss and slickness

Deluxe Detail - $199
All steps from the Mini Detail plus:

• + Two step machine polish
• + Light swirls and scratches removed
• + Full interior vacuum
• + Leather and vinyl conditioned
• + Synthetic paint protection
• + Topped with a carnauba wax
• + Faded Paint rejuvenated
• + Returned to show room condition

Ultimate Package - $299

• One Deluxe Detail valued at $199
• FIVE follow up exterior washes
• Using soft microfibres and filtered rainwater
• Thats only $20 per wash!
• Great value for regular customers

So if someone turns up with a car covered in **** the cheapest package i offer is $99. That should cover the worse interior or exterior without me having to increase the prices. Im not going to offer a $35 wash if there is a risk of it taking more than an hour. So i instead include washes in my "ultimate package" the cars are so easy to clean once it has a high end carnauba on the paint.

[Picus]

I did ala-carte a long time ago. Now I have two package prices as a guide, but always quote based on an hourly rate. So ya... basically the only variable in my pricing is how much paint correction I will need to do on the car. I don't do interiors. I know, weird.

[bwalker25]

@picus - I thought I was the only one that hated interiors

I price out hourly on the low end because I am just getting started @ $20/hr with a minimum charge for 2 hours. This assures me of getting $40 no matter what.

The only variable in my pricing is like someone mentioned above how much paint correction do I need to do on this thing, when that is established w/ # of hours needed its cake from there. Tires/wheels/wells ALWAYS get cleaned and dressed, no exceptions because lets face it lots of people the first thing they see is in this order:

1. better looking paint (shiny)
1.5 cleaner wheels/tires
2. dressed tires

I also dont do ala-carte pricing, its all hourly for me. If a customer requests me just to clean the tires/wheels/, then hey I have a jack and some jack stands, no problem I jack the side of the car up and take the wheels off and go to down on the front and back sides and they get charged $20/hr with a minimum of $40 to start, I even seal the front and back sides of the wheels.

[Picus]

That's what I meant by the only variable is paint correction. When someone brings a car to me to get compounded/polished I always do certain things that I am sure we all do to some extent; clean and seal wheels, clean and dress wheels and tires, polish all the metal, dress all the trim, clean and wax jambs, clean and dress engine, etc.. I always tell my customs I "don't do extras", when a car leaves my place I want all parts of it to look good (except the interior haha). So unless the exhaust is in bad shape or something it's always pretty much the same amount of time with the variable being the correction.

[SuperBee364]

Originally Posted by Picus

I did ala-carte a long time ago. Now I have two package prices as a guide, but always quote based on an hourly rate. So ya... basically the only variable in my pricing is how much paint correction I will need to do on the car. I don't do interiors. I know, weird.

Same here. I'll do them on friends, family, and of course my cars, but that's it.

They can go to any of the local high volume detail shops and get a pretty darn good interior job done for alot less than what I'd have to charge. If it's not a service that I can't blow the other shops out of the water on (as far as quality), I don't do it. Interiors fit that description.

[Picus]

Ya I agree. Like a lot of guys on this board I will do interiors that need more protection/leather work than "cleaning". I don't have an extractor etc, so if someone needs their carpets shampoo'd or headliner steamed there are better places for that around here too. I'll definitely vacuum and clean/condition leather as a part of my service though, same as I'd clean an engine bay or polish an exhaust, etc. Luckily most of the cars I work on have pretty mint interiors, so it hardly qualifies as work.

I have a ton of respect for the few folks on this board that do serious interior work. I just never could seem to sell people on the price, since the local shops will do 90% of the job for 20% of the cash.

[Tony@Cherished]

I have my standard menu, but as a rule quote everything out based from a minimum hourly rate. 99/100 customers over here think it's something that shouldn't cost them more than £20 for work taking 3 - 4 hours, because of all the poor quality/cheap as chips workers around.
It took a few years to get the word around that I put quality first, a hard few years too. but I now get regular customers who call and mention that they know I'm not the cheapest ( not the most expensive either though) but do a quality job.......so the best advice I think I could give on pricing is - don't under value your services. Just charge what you feel is right and deserving of your time.

[Grabby]

Originally Posted by Tony@Cherished

I have my standard menu, but as a rule quote everything out based from a minimum hourly rate. 99/100 customers over here think it's something that shouldn't cost them more than £20 for work taking 3 - 4 hours, because of all the poor quality/cheap as chips workers around.
It took a few years to get the word around that I put quality first, a hard few years too. but I now get regular customers who call and mention that they know I'm not the cheapest ( not the most expensive either though) but do a quality job.......so the best advice I think I could give on pricing is - don't under value your services. Just charge what you feel is right and deserving of your time.

Tony does really great work and a really nice chap as well.

[TH0001]

Originally Posted by Tony@Cherished

I have my standard menu, but as a rule quote everything out based from a minimum hourly rate. 99/100 customers over here think it's something that shouldn't cost them more than £20 for work taking 3 - 4 hours, because of all the poor quality/cheap as chips workers around.
It took a few years to get the word around that I put quality first, a hard few years too. but I now get regular customers who call and mention that they know I'm not the cheapest ( not the most expensive either though) but do a quality job.......so the best advice I think I could give on pricing is - don't under value your services. Just charge what you feel is right and deserving of your time.

Tony does AMAZING WORK.... Holy crap I still have some what wierd dreams about that Ferrari!!!

[d00t]

Originally Posted by jsatek

No, and someone stole my D80 when I moved in November.

Its directed to the people that write up the menu of individual services with prices next to it. I want to know if any of their clients acutally upsell themselves after reading the menu. I've never seen it happen in any industry. Customers dont know why they want "xyz", they need to be sold "xyz".

I tried to sell a customer a zymol vintage wax instead of just my normal lusso oro. He asked "why charge xx more for zymol?" I explained it to him, and why it would benefit his paint, and he got it. Like you said, it's about telling them why they should have it done, and selling them on the fact that it would only benefit them, not you.

When talking to a customer, you always want to ensure it's for them, and will only make it that much better, not they need it just cause it costs $500 more and automatically makes it better.

With that said: My prices start at $30 for washes. And start at $250 for paint correction.

I used to do an a la carte type thing, but it just made customers choose less then what I thought they needed. So right now my pricing and process is int he middle of a complete overhaul.

Aaron