ryant601
Well-Known Member
$500 is pretty reasonable. Considering the bottle will cost you $80-100 to do yourself. At that point it's not much more.
But Im sorry, IMO the people paying a detailer $75-100/hour of actual time spent are insane IMO. Dry time doesnt count as work time as nothing is being done; so it doesnt matter if it took 2 days total.
So with material costs and say even 15 hours of labor, this process should not cost over $1,000 absolutely max. There is no reason it should take more than 10 working hours to wash clay and polish a car and wipe on some coating- not on an S550 that cannot be more than 2 years old only being in production 2 years. It should NOT need heavy correction like a daily driver from 2001.
Reasonable would be about $700; paying more is just getting ripped off.
OBVIOUSLY if detailers werent getting rich off this they wouldnt be offering the service.
You speak the truth. He makes a killing off of it, doesn't make so much doing other things. His target market isn't Odyssey driving soccer moms...it's a low volume service so they've gotta make money where they can. That said, there's a fine line between overcharging and creating customer value.
I'd personally do it again, but not at $1,000. The ease of cleaning is worth it.
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