How did everyone get started in detailing?

**clean4u** · 07-30-2004, 09:28 PM

Just wondering how everyone got started in the detailing business or in the detailing supply business?

**Chubs** · 07-30-2004, 10:03 PM

I started out at a car wash detail shop that was local owned. That was during my senoir year of high school. I then moved to a car dealership, what a mistake. But I learned two total different aspects of detailing quiality and quianity. Since then I moved to a maintenance job for a school and detailing on the side in my garage. Now its been 8 years since the car was and a decent base of customers of my own and strongly growing every month I`m looking into starting my own business part- time since I`m the one with the health benefits and having a family. Hoping to make it a full time business in a few years though.

**G35stilez** · 07-30-2004, 10:57 PM

I can honestly thank Jngrbrdman for teaching me the ropes of detailing.

I started before that, but he really straightened out the products/procedures/special techniques that have made me grow in knowledge as well as in my business.

I use a lot of information learned in college from my business plan to run and market my business. It has seemed to work great so far

But once again, Thank you Anthony

**denverdetail** · 07-30-2004, 11:16 PM

clean4u,
I`ve always been a fanatic about cleaning and detailing mine and my families cars. I`m 30 now and started over a year ago detailing professionally. Before that I worked for 8 years in the white collar world after graduating from college. I chose to starting detailing as a career because I was tired of corporate environments working 60+ hours a week investing my entire self to make money for others. I make a little less money now but am much happier in every aspect of my life. In the last year my wife and I have repaired our relationship, I`ve lost 35 pounds and am in great shape. And the best part is that I make my own rules. I do what I want, when I want! Life is great and I owe it all to my weird obsession with detailing.

**TruckTechniques** · 07-31-2004, 08:23 AM

Right out of high school, I worked for a Tidy Car (remember them) outlet near Detroit. I moved on to an Auto One store and got sucked into Corporate America shortly after that

I kept detailing my own vehicles as well as others my family owns.

I started seriously considering starting my own detailing biz last summer and have done just that this year. Big thanks to lots of research here on DC alone as well as a few other sources.

**shotime** · 07-31-2004, 01:08 PM

I bought my first car, started maintaining it, and that was that. I didn`t start out not detailing and then decide to take care of my cars, it`s something I`ve done for every car I`ve owned. I honestly thought when you buy a car, that`s what you do. Now after doing it for many years, I`ve realized I`m in the 1%ers that clean their cars.