August 9, 2021
Most car washes aim for quantity over quality. Typically at these car washes, you’ll see products used to create a high gloss, on your dash, or on your tires. To make it look “Nice” when you drive out. Majority of these products are silicone based products which produce a high shine, but offer very little for protection. Lets take for example your dashboard, with one of these silicone products freshly applied, its looking fresh its looking shiny. BUT its oily to the touch, seems to be somewhat of a dust magnet. Not only that but overtime as you drive your car, your windshield is getting hazy harder to see out of, this is caused by those silicone products “outgassing” or evaporating on to your windshield. Now lets talk about the exterior, again quantity over quality, machine wash produce swirl marks on your car’s paint, WHICH dull the shine and dull the overall look of your car.
Now lets compare to detailing. Its in the name detailing is a detailed oriented service, you’re going to get a deeper clean, that lasts longer. Your detailer is going to use top quality products, they’re going to go in with their detail brushes, blow out and vacuum all the cracks and crevices. They’re going to use the correct products to protect and maintain your car’s look both inside and outside. Knobs, Cracks, crevices all the small…details…paid attention with a detailing service.
Maybe you’re saying you don’t really care about how your car looks, a machine car wash is good enough for you, that’s fine. However with a detail, your detailer is going to be applying protectant to the outside of your car. In the form of either wax or sealants. Which helps deter dirt and water from sticking to your car which means less of your time driving through the car wash.
Of course you are paying more for the service however, the difference in quality between a car wash and detailing are far apart. With a detailing service the shine of your car is lasting far longer, the paint is staying cleaner, your door jams are clean, your seats and all the areas around them are going to be better vacuumed. Your windows are going to be clearer and easier to see through. Hard surfaces are going to have a protectant applied to them. The durability and quality is there even with basic services of a detail because of the tier products used and the effort put into detailing.
A good detailing service is going to do one of two things. Hit the “Reset” button on your car restoring it back to the best condition possible OR if your car is new, it maintains and preserves that new car look. While a car wash, while it does clean your car there are consequences of doing that that build up overtime. Either way its best to be mindful of what we are spending our hard earned money on, be it car wash or detail service. Obviously as a mobile detailing company we are biased to detailing but with so many benefits its hard not to be.