RE: Wash and wax, sir?

[Vesuvius 996]

jazzyslick said:

This guy sounds good, his previous work looks good. However, I and a few of my friends and colleagues have used and continue to use a guy called Paul Wiltshire, also based in Kent, UK. This guy started out building, modifying and restoring a number of concours winning vehicles for himself. His work was so outstanding that people were always asking him to work his magic on their cars. Eventually he caved in to a few of the requests and hasn't looked back since. The thing I love about this guy is that this is a sideline for him. He refuses to let this become his full-time profession as, and I quote,"If I did this for a living the passion would disappear." As a result the service you get is super exclusive, comes from a proven concours winning track record, and is value for money. As an example I had this done on my E34 M5:

Full concours wash with wheels, arches and door shuts cleaned
Wheels cleaned with concours products
Full paintwork decontamination
Hand-dried using microfibre drying towels
Paintwork cleansed
Concours grade wax application
Tyres and exterior plastics cleaned and conditioned
All brightwork cleaned and polished
Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and polished
Interior detail and leather conditioning

This took Paul 8 hours to complete and cost £400 cash. Paul's client list is purely by word of mouth recommendations -

Sorry no ads in the forums please, not even for friends.

Hilarious.

That's £50 an hour to have someone clean your car. And well done for dropping him in it with the Inland Revenue.............

Edited by Big Al. on Monday 21st May 22:45

[900T-R]

LuS1fer said:

I seem to have stumbled into a salon where people are obsessed by looks and £5000 hairstyles. All well and good but FFS, it's a car....for driving. I could polish my computer but I'd rather use it.

Have to agree somewhat - call me cheap but to pay the price of a perfectly nice secondhand car for work that for a good part gets undone whenever I use the detailed object for its intended purpose...



Mind you, I like to keep my cars smart and presentable and I'll be calling on the professionals whenever there's damage to be undone that could've been avoided or which threatens to become a durability issue, but if I don't accept some 'wear and tear' like stone chips on a low, plastic bodied sports car as an unavoidable consequence of using it - I think I'd go mad, frankly!And if this means my cars will never be a '1' or '2' condition item in the clasic car buff books... so be it. I'll console myself with the thought that a bit of genuine patina on a car is actually a desirable thing.

[whoami]

Vesuvius 996 said:

jazzyslick said:

This guy sounds good, his previous work looks good. However, I and a few of my friends and colleagues have used and continue to use a guy called Paul Wiltshire, also based in Kent, UK. This guy started out building, modifying and restoring a number of concours winning vehicles for himself. His work was so outstanding that people were always asking him to work his magic on their cars. Eventually he caved in to a few of the requests and hasn't looked back since. The thing I love about this guy is that this is a sideline for him. He refuses to let this become his full-time profession as, and I quote,"If I did this for a living the passion would disappear." As a result the service you get is super exclusive, comes from a proven concours winning track record, and is value for money. As an example I had this done on my E34 M5:

Full concours wash with wheels, arches and door shuts cleaned
Wheels cleaned with concours products
Full paintwork decontamination
Hand-dried using microfibre drying towels
Paintwork cleansed
Concours grade wax application
Tyres and exterior plastics cleaned and conditioned
All brightwork cleaned and polished
Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and polished
Interior detail and leather conditioning

This took Paul 8 hours to complete and cost £400 cash. Paul's client list is purely by word of mouth recommendations -

Sorry no ads in the forums please, not even for friends.

Hilarious.

That's £50 an hour to have someone clean your car. And well done for dropping him in it with the Inland Revenue.............

Which appears to be pretty much exactly the same as Miracle Detail

Premier Miracle Detail

A great way to see the difference a Miracle Detail can make. Although this process takes less time and has less stages than the Connoisseur Miracle Detail, no less care is taken. A good introduction to Miracle, or as an interim treatment between Connoisseur bookings.
Estimated time: 5 - 6 hours
Estimated cost: £350




21-Stage Miracle natural wash with wheels, arches and door shuts cleaned
Wheels cleaned with P21s wheel gel and a boar's hair wheel brush
Full paintwork decontamination (removes embedded contaminants)
Hand-dried using microfibre drying towels
Paintwork cleansed (pre-wax cleaner)
Vintage wax (61% rare White Carnauba) application
Tyres and exterior plastics cleaned and conditioned
Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and polished
Water repellant treatment to all exterior windows
All chrome and stainless steel surfaces cleaned and polished
Interior detail and leather conditioning at extra cost



Except more expensive.



Hilarious

Edited by Big Al. on Monday 21st May 22:46

[mc_blue]

Considering just how much time and effort must go into this service I do not think it works out to be *that* expensive. Bearing in mind the sort of punters Paul will be appealing to (oil rich Arabs etc) I'm sure there's a market for his services and if there isn't he'll have to reduce the price!



Providing I had enough time on my hands I think that detailing my own car (nothing as exotic as the 'jacked up Beetle' I'm sure) would be quite rewarding though.

[jazzyslick]

Sorry that I have unintentionally broke a forum rule - I didn't realize recommendations are not allowed. Oh well, seems a shame that this kind of friendly advice is not allowed?



Bit confused with this as the original post is certainly more of an ad? Did Paul Dalton pay for this?Hmmm...



Anyway, apologies as I didn't mean to offend anyone I just wanted to help fellow enthusiasts out.

[Mrs Fish]

Chances are if it is an editorial in the first place, there will have been discussion with Haymarket to start off with and a deal regarding advertising agreed upon.

[Garlick]

jazzyslick said:

Bit confused with this as the original post is certainly more of an ad? Did Paul Dalton pay for this?Hmmm...

The original piece was simply seen as an interesting article- it was the worlds most expensive detail at the time and was fetured in a few mags too- not a detailing advert, more a 'Jeez have you seen how much that costs' sort of thing.



It's much the same as any other feature or news piece- we try and bring you interesting car news every day and open up to you guys for comment, but not for advertising similar services.

[Big Al.]

Don't lets bring this tread into another slanging match.

A lot of leeway has already been granted regarding recommendations. I think it's now’s the time to bring it to and end!