it gets real hot in the day...so i do most of my detailing at night and sometime find myself outside till 2 or 3 in the morning...just curious whats the latest you have been up detailing...

 

Hey matt-- good to hear from you again.

Anywho, I just detailed the front half of my truck (and waxed the back half) the other day at the FD-- I pulled it as far into the unoccupied bay as I could (we have workout equip taking up the rest of the place) and went to town...

It was pretty great-- everyone was makign fun of me for the first hour or so (when I was buffing for 'no reason-- it was pretty shiny to start with'), then once I started getting farther along they started skeeting all over themselves...

I've already got some new swirls because that day they kept wanting to feel the surface... I am not complaining though because I think it will get me a couple of detailing gigs which will pay, so a little defect removal will make it worth it.

FWIW, they all wanted to eat nattys, drink HD, and steal the EX-P.... LOL!

 

glad to see that im not the only crazy one on the this late...yeah hopefully one of these days i can make an order to ADS but until then im going to have to stick with advance auto parts...im finally getting some free time(moving sucks so bad when u do it mainly by urself) but now that im like 85% in i have some time to relax and check out the this website its been awhile ive cruised around it...

 

The latest I've been up detailing is around midnight or so. I really don't like to do anything at night as the products seem not to work as well as during the day. Waxes and polishes take forever to set and quick detailer's tend to streak and not buff out. I think it has to do with the humidity and dew points in this area of the country though. I wish things would work better at night as I do tend to be a night owl, usually starting projects around 11 or so.

 

well, I guess I should rephrase my post: I havent been detailing this late, but I am awake this late and I did recently detail...

However, I have been working on a really fun project at the FD in which I agreed to detail both trucks... Here is what I have done so far:

Wash (with the crap wash for now)
polish ALL chrome (used 1/2 bottle of chrome polish)
polish ALL lights (Plast-X... used 1/4 bottle on that)
dress ALL plastic/rubbber (using 32 oz of this silicone dressing crap...)
polish ALL polished aluminum/brushed aluminum (Powerball+ Mag and Aluminum polish...mostly done)
Polish ALL diamond Plating... ARGHHH!!!!!!!! That crap tore up the powerball (It went from jumbo sized to less than 2" in diameter... It takes for fo freaking ever, too...

The good news: After all this, we are ordering this stuff for aluminum thast is a spray on, agitate with brush, spray off product that works MIRACLES... Cant wait.

I have been up at the FD for the past 3 days now working on this for about 8-14 hours per day...

However, I have already gotten TONS of compliments on the way the lights are brighter and the aluminum looks good, (the wheel wells are dressed), etc... Next comes the paint. Maybe.

What's my next plan:

I have been talking to the PD Chief, and I may get to detail the cop cars for a nominal fee (mostly just chemicals plus a bit extra, likely around 50-75 a car...). This should be really fun. Then, I have several people at the FD that want me to do their trucks, so this could well be a profitable time for me in the next few months.

I really do love free advertising... Working on my truck got others interested-- my results got them hooked. Does that make me a hooker?

 

I have done many and ended at 4 am...got some sleep and finshed up.

 

I had two late night details in 07. My grandfather's Acura MDX was the first. I stayed up until about 2:30 washing, claying, and detailing the interior. I got up at about 8 the next morning and finished up at 1:00 or so that afternoon. The other one was terrible. It was my buddies 91 LX Mustang with some kind of monster cam in it. I pretty much did the same thing as with the MDX, but when I tried to back it into the garage it kept stalling on me. The next door neighbors had only lived there for a week or two and I just knew that they were about to come outside and complain...that Mustang was pretty loud.

 

Only if I had a garage would I. Otherwise 6:00am - 10:00am is when I do before the hard heat moves in.

 

There was a time when I really couldn't do it in my garage because the lighting was so bad. About a year ago my wife had her grandfather put some flourescent (sp?) lights in the garage for me so it has gotten a lot easier.