Lude Generation

When the lude is with me at my house I want to get it detailed (start as you mean to go on ) and my CLS detailed ready for sale. Can anyone recommend a good detailer who'll travel to the North Wales area and do 2 cars in 1 day?

im guessing you have no replies as no one can find supermans number.

imho if ANYONE says they can detail two cars in a day is NOT a detailer. Every time I have gone at the lude with a view to a full process (wash,tape up rubbers,claybar, wash, polish, wash, sealant/wax, all door shuts, boot bonnet cleaned and interior) takes the best part of 10 hours. doing the same to my volvo took two days. It is an involved process that takes time to do well.
the best you will get in one day is two cars washed, run a mop over them and chuck on some wax. Not detailed, just cleaned.


imho if you mean to start as you go on spend the cash you would have spent on one 'professional' detail and buy all the needed bits of kit yourself. you then get onto youtube and watch all the online vids showing 'how to' clay bar, electric polish etc and you will be set for years of happy detailing. Remember, a car only really needs one full treatment a year. use a good wax once every 5-6 months and you are good to go.

otherwise I will happily come up to north wales, camp in the back yard, and detail both of your cars for £100 each plus 10p per mile travelled. This would work out cheaper than the £150-£200 each car you would pay otherwise and you would have one of the forums most pedantic paint carers on team I have detailed a number of friends/family cars and had a number of recommendations, I have not advertised though.

get stuck in yourself, otherwise have a look at my profile threads to see how well my paint always looks

I can vouch for LLL's detailing skills! His car is seriously clean and probably gets far too much love

I'm tempeted to get you to detail mine for those prices, want to get my rusty arches fixed first tho

i'd happily pay you £100 to detail my car LLL i hate polishing my car with a passion

what you driving lll? at 10p per mile it would have to do 70 odd to the gallon just to break even on fuel.

Yer detailing a car in a day is difficult. 2 days realistically for 1 car.
Spend the 1st day cleaning it, claying it, cleaning it, inside and out.
day to taping, polishing, cutting back, correcting and waxing.

But LLL Type S is especially detailed i must say. In person the paintwork is faultlessly clean and almost hologram free.

Im going 1 extra and doing away with polishing and just respraying panel by panel. That way i know how thick iv applied the lacquer and get it as flat as possible.

For a pro you will be looking at £200+ per car and, as mentioned, you won't get a correction detail on just one car, let alone two, in one day. Not unless it was an early start and late finish. At best you might get a light enhancement detail done in a day.

With two of you working at least both cars can be prepped ready for polishing. If you haven't got space in a garage and the weather is crap, it won't happen either.

How much are you realistically looking to spend?

@tramroad: i would be borrowing the missis company car the 10p is just for my time


thanks for the kind words on my paint guys i love getting into it. you can really zone out and you end up with visible results for time spent.

Cheers chaps. You've given a lot to think about.

I'll weigh up my options and have a good look at the cars/timings first.