Archived Blog Posts for Express Detailing

One of the drawbacks of the automobile detailing business is that, once you’ve done all you can to spruce up a customer’s vehicle, and no matter how much praise that customer heaps on you for doing a great job, you might not see that client for quite a while. But here at Detail King, one of the ways we can also guarantee that you — the professional auto detailer — will get an encore performance is to offer your customers an Express After-Care Package.

What’s express after-care, you ask? Simple. After you’ve wowed your customer with your detailing prowess, and while their head’s still spinning with the wonderfulness of you, encourage them to stop by in a couple of months, or to book you to bring your mobile auto detailing service to them, to get a quick spruce up.

You need to tell your auto detailing customer that this facelift isn’t going to be as thorough as the full Monty you just performed on their vehicle. But you guarantee it will restore the shine and get it looking like it did maybe three to six months prior. And the Express After-Care service and package won’t break their bank account, either.

Here’s what an Express After Care Package typically offers:

  • Exterior: Wash, bug and tar removal, tires dressed, express wax or machine polished using an orbital like or similar to the Porter Cable and Cyclo Polishers (and by using an orbital like these mentioned will really help save you on product and move through the job a lot quicker!). If you don’t have an orbital polisher we highly recommend looking into a couple express waxes and sealants like our Aqua Seal and Final Touch Ultra.
  • Interior: Inside the vehicle, tasks include complete vacuum, clean windows, wipe down and  Continue reading…

There’s a segment of this industry that’s often overlooked by auto detailing entrepreneurs, even though it has the potential for respectable profits with less work and a reasonable overhead. We’re talking about express detailing or, as we like to call it here at Detail King, express after care.

Express detailing is a service offered by many established car wash businesses because — if they do it right — they can add $30 to $60 to the regular car wash ticket. This expedited service has the customer on his or her way in less than 15 to 20 minutes after the automatic car wash, feeling really good about the inexpensive — and fast — service.

That’s great for the fixed site car wash, but the hurdle facing the average mobile auto detailer is that he or she doesn’t have the Continue reading…