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You might think that keeping your car clean with the odd trip to your local car wash is enough. However, detailing your car on a regular basis will keep your car’s bodywork in good condition and will prolong the lifespan of your vehicle.

What does a Car Detailing Service do?

Car detailing is a far cry from merely washing, polishing or vacuuming your car. Car detailing companies will not just clean your car, they will make your car shiny, polished and looking brand new.

A detailing will involve vacuuming your carpets and seats, cleaning marks and fingerprints off the roof lining in your car, polishing and shining all interior and exterior mirrors. The detailing firm will ensure that brake dust is removed from alloy wheels and they will treat the alloy wheels with protective spray to reduce build up of rust.

Some car wash companies still apply caustic products during washing and cleaning. These products strip polish off your car’s paintwork instead of protecting your car. A build up of polish on the paintwork protects from environmental damage. Detailing ensures a car’s resistant to such damage such as dust, skipping stones or salt splashing up in winter. Detailing prevents deterioration and provides protection against everyday minor damages and rust.

Apart from keeping your car clean and tidy a car detailing service will get your car ready for sale, if you’re planning to sell your car. A new buyer will be put off by dust, grime and stale smell, not to mention fingerprints, water stains, swirls and damage showing on the paintwork or on shuts on doors and the boot.

Part of your job might be to collect clients or to drive them around – our car will therefore be an extension of your office and will tell prospective customers a great deal about you and they way you value their custom. An untidy, dirty car – exterior and interior – will create a very bad impression and will tell people that you are disorganised, have no detention to detail and they will assume that you are not very good at your job.

If your job is driving people around, then you want to make sure that your car doesn’t harbor harmful elements which could affect your customers, equally your family is important to you – harmful bugs and bacteria will soon make a home in your car, if it is not regularly cleaned and thoroughly vacuumed. Especially small children, who touch everything and then stick their fingers into their mouths, will be at risk, if your car is left to fester in rubbish and dirt.

Detailing your car is an important step to lengthen the life of your car. Not only will your car last longer, you will feel better when driving a clean, polished and perfectly detailed car.

Reference: Auto Transport > Garage > Finding the Best Detail Service

When you have decided on an auto detailing company to detail your car, ask for basic information such as if their service includes the removal of water stains, swirls, road tar spots and minor stone chips. Will they clean and seal the glass? What specifically will they be doing? Don’t be afraid to ask for details.

If you regularly transport animals such as dogs in the rear of your car, odours will have built up in the cloth parts of the interior of your car. A car wash won’t deal with them – other than hanging a small air freshener on your interior mirror perhaps. A car detailing firm will actively remove odours and will apply air freshener at the end of the service.

While a car wash down the road from where you live won’t take all that long, having your car detailed may take between 4 hours to a whole day.

Why should I spend money on having my car cleaned?

Cleaning a car is not just a method of keeping it clean and tidy. A proper car detailing service will aim to make your car looking better than brand new. You might like to pay out a little more, when you think about selling your car or when you regularly transport small children, for whom the interior of your car should pose no threat with regard to bacteria, grime and dirt.

If part of your job is to regularly pick up and drop off of clients travelling with you in your car, then using a car detailing service is paramount. Just think how embarrassing it would be, if the clients complained to your boss about the state of your car!

How can I be sure what they do?

Basic information on car detailing can easily be obtained over the internet and before taking your car for its next clean, it is best to do some research of what is included in the service and what exactly will be done. A total cleaning and polishing of your car should be done regularly to prevent deterioration and to discover any minor damage to the paintwork, which might be hidden by grime, dust or water stains and swirling.

How long will it take?

A car detailing service will also brush air vents and dashboards to remove dust and will wax your car for extra polish and protection. If you added up all the necessary things that need to be done, you’d be surprised how much time you’d have to spend, if doing it yourself. Expert car detailing service providers will undoubtedly take far less time and your time might be better spent on doing the research on who will provide the best service for the money you can afford for a regular detailing of your car. Even if it takes 4 hours to a whole day, your car will be much the better for it, if time, care and attention are spent on it.

Money Matters

A car wash might cost you between £3 and perhaps £6 while a car detailing service might be as much as £50, depending on what you specify. You may be offset some of this money, when doing your tax return, if your car is used for your business activities. Your employer might even pay for car detailing, if your car is a company car or leased.