Professional detailing is customized cleaning and restoration service designed to produce a meticulously clean vehicle with a brilliant shine and immaculate interior; free from stains, residue, dirt, or contamination of any kind.
Professional detailing is not to be confused with a car wash, wash and wax, or express detailing. While those services serve their purposes in the market place, professional detailing is a much more meticulous, thorough, and customized service.
Professional detailing services are not “one size fits all”. They begin with an inspection of the vehicle to determine the best course of action to bring the vehicle as close to perfection as possible. No two vehicles are the same or require the same exact detailing process.
Professional Detailer’s customize their services to each individual vehicle based on the condition and individual needs of the vehicle.
The cost of detailing varies according to a number of factors like size, age, condition, and requirements of each vehicle. It is imprudent to quote a flat fee for detailing. We need to see your vehicle in order to give you an estimate. If you maintain your vehicle on an ongoing basis, the cost of detailing will be much lower than if you rarely clean your automobile.
We encourage you to bring in your vehicle for a complete complementary evaluation. No appointment is necessary for the evaluation. We will make recommendations and give you pricing options; and we will show you vehicles we are currently detailing so you can see first-hand the quality of our work.
Many detailing establishments will readily give a quote over the phone, only to raise the price once they see the actual level of difficulty, or provide inferior service that is less than you actually expected. The best we can do is a range estimate. There are many contributing factors to determining the scope and length of time required to do excellent work. We will give you a written estimate prior to performing any work.
The best way to get an estimate is to come by our shop so we can assess the damage. We can usually have a quote in about 10 minutes.
Yes. Typically, we can get your car in for service within 24-48 hours with an appointment; but we do offer emergency appointments.
A custom detail will take 4 -8 hours. Vehicles in poor condition may require additional time. Dropping off your vehicle in the morning and picking it up late in the afternoon is ideal.
Yes. Pickup and delivery varies from $25 – $85 depending on your distance from our shop.
Yes. Car Pool Detail has a partnership with Enterprise Car Rentals, located just 2 miles from our shop. The special Car Pool Detail customer rate is $35 per day. Enterprise picks you up at our shop and takes you to their offices where you are provided a car. At the end of the day, Enterprise will deliver you to our office. Allow 25 minutes for the checkout/check in process in the morning and evening.
Yes. Car Pool Detail has been licensed for over 30 years within our respective jurisdiction.
Yes.
Car Pool Detail offers a 100% money-back guarantee. If you’re not completely satisfied, we will either re-detail your vehicle for free or refund your money!
Yes. We accept all major credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover, and debit cards with the Visa logo.
Our business hours are 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. We are closed on Sundays.
You will be amazed at the transformation your used vehicle can go through with a thorough Car Pool Detailing session. Everything from the interior to the exterior can be cleaned to give it the shine of a new vehicle. Look through our website at our “Before” and “After” pictures. These are real examples of the difference a professional detailing job can make in your older model vehicle.
A hand wash can take 45 minutes to hour for an average size vehicle. Vehicles that have not been washed frequently will require more time.
Paint contamination describes any material that attaches itself to the paint and cannot be removed by normal washing methods. Paint contamination most commonly consists of shavings from rail dust, brake dust, tree sap, road tar, artillery fungus, mulberry stains and industrial fallout. These contaminants affects all paint finishes and will cause damage to the paint if left untreated. Paint contamination can be felt as a “rough, sticky or gritty” texture on the paint’s surface and can appear as tiny rust spots, dots or stains. This contamination can not be removed by normal washing or waxing.
Acid rain, or “environmental fallout”, is airborne moisture like fog, mist, dust, smoke, and snow, contaminated with high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids. Caused naturally from natural disasters like volcanoes, acid rain is also caused from fossil fuel combustion. When these acidic compounds are deposited on your vehicle, it leaves etched marks on the horizontal surfaces of your car like the hood, top, and rear trunk, usually after the drops have dried. Untreated, it will eat away at the paint on your vehicle.
Thin as saran wrap, clear-coat is the outer protective layer of your paint finish. It has very little if any color pigmentation, but is loaded with UV blockers that provide depth and gloss to your automotive finish and protects the base coat from weather and harmful UV rays.
Not all cars have what is traditionally referred to as a “clear coat”, but all cars do have some sort of enamel to protect them from oxidizing and fading. Ninety-five percent of automobiles sold in North America today have two-stage paint, which means they come from the manufacturer with a clear coat.
Your clear coat is important because it protects the pigmented paint underneath from oxidizing and fading. It determines how much luster and gloss your paint has. Unfortunately, clear coats are “scratch sensitive” which means they scratch easily and as light reflects through this clear layer of paint it highlights the scratches, making them more visible.
We can remove most surface scratches. Scratches that are deep enough to penetrate the clear coat and into the pigmented paint or the metal cannot be removed safely by buffing. Some deep scratches can be cosmetically enhanced with touch up paint.
The difference between removing and filling defects is the difference between eliminating a problem, and hiding it. Filling is a temporary solution that must be repeated often to maintain the appearance of the paint.
Absolutely, that is not true. A clear coat is paint just like any other paint. If left unprotected, over time a neglected clear coat will look hazy and dull because it will be covered in exposure to the sun’s UV rays, fine scratches, water spots, acid rain, acidic bird droppings, etc. can destroy the coating. fine
Made of water, hormones, minerals, nutrients, and sugar, these elements eat through your clear coast to etch the paint, and can be difficult to remove when hardened. Car Pool Detail technicians use special chemicals to remove sap residue that will not harm your paint surface.
Not all dents can be removed. Some dents have stretched the metal too far, and others are not accessible with PDR tools. If your dent runs along double-stamped steel, or along the vehicle’s contours and factory-created creases, Car Pool Detail may not be able to repair them because these areas on your car cannot be duplicated.
Yes. For a perfect finish, we will have to repaint the entire panel, but in most cases, we can greatly improve the paint damage with color-matching touchup paint.
Bumper repair can take up to 48 hours, depending on the severity of the damage.
Your bumper is cured when you leave our shop. We use an infrared lamp to cure your clear coat as our last repair step.
Yes. We mix our paint based on the code and formula provided by your car manufacturer.
No. Only a body or paint technician looking closely at the damage could detect a bumper repair.
Door nicks, rock chips, key scratches, etc., we can match your paint and make it look like new. We mix your paint to the hundredth of a gram, per your manufacturer’s formula.
No. Car Pool Detail uses real automotive paint, which is permanent and will not wash, chip, or fade away.
Sometimes. Most vandalism damage is in the clear-coat and will buff out. In some areas, the scratches have actually removed the base-coat (the colored paint beneath your outer clear paint). We can touch them up with a small amount of paint, but if the damage is exceptionally deep (exposed metal) or long (3 inches or longer), the repair will certainly be visible from close distances.
Yes.
Paint correction is not visible from close distances of 6 inches or less. Most paint touch ups can be spotted up close, but from normal viewing distances, we can improve your minor paint damage for a small fraction of what a repaint would cost.
Paint touch-up usually can take from 30 minutes up to 2 hours hours.
Windshield repair restores the structural integrity of your original factory-installed windshield; it looks better; and it is much more cost-effective and faster than replacement. Many insurance companies pay for the entire service.
No. Car Pool Detail repairs windshield chips smaller than a quarter.
Whether you will be able to tell your windshield has been repaired depends on the age, depth, and width of the chip. Some chips can be improved 60%; others go away completely.
Windshield repair generally takes between 30 to 60 minutes, depending on the number of chips and severity of the damage.
About 85% of automotive headlights can be restored. If the headlight is cracked or hazed from the inside out, it must be replaced.
The most significant benefit to headlight restoration is its newer appearance, brighter light, and safer night driving. Restoration can improve badly hazed headlights output up to 100%.
Usually car headlights can be repaired in about 30 minutes.
Headlights are made of polycarbonate, a material comparable to bulletproof glass, but it is also easily pitted, and made cloudy and yellow after long exposure to ordinary sunlight.
Today’s headlights are made of a polycarbonate called Lexan™, or bulletproof glass. While it is strong and impact resistant, the surface is easily scratched, and very easily degraded when exposed to sunlight.
In the 1980s, manufacturers wanted lighter, more streamlined cars so they used polycarbonate plastic – a lighter-weight material than glass, and more resistant to breaking from stones on the road. It also can be molded to any shape, making it especially malleable for aerodynamic designs.
When headlights are badly damaged, they can trap up to 80% of the light inside the lens. Using high beams provide more light, but after restoring them with ReNuLite™, drivers are amazed at how much light comes out of the same lenses.
Most odors can be removed. In rare cases, odors can be improved enough to satisfy most drivers.
Yes, but sometimes the replacement of interior items is necessary. It’s common for a flooded car to require new carpet padding. Moldy seat belts cannot be cleaned, and must be replaced.
No. Shampooing wets the area and allows bacteria to spread deeper into carpet and seat padding. Urine and food spills should be treated and cleaned with other processes.
Car Pool Detail has many types of equipments for treating odors including ozone machines. An Ozone machine cannot remove odors from a vehicle without first removing the source of the odor.
Odors cannot be removed from a vehicle without first removing the bacteria causing the odor.
The permanence of your repairs depend on the location of the repair. Dashboards are permanent, but re-dying a leather driver’s seat will wear off after heavy use, just like the factory dye did – at about the same rate.
Yes. We can always match material colors exactly.
Textures cannot always be matched perfectly. Vinyl has a synthetic grain to simulate leather and it can’t be matched perfectly, but we can get an acceptable match with spray textures. It is difficult to match perfectly plastic textures, but with spray textures, we can “blend” our repairs and get an acceptable result.
We suggest waiting 48 hours befor cleaning vinyl, leather, and plastic repairs. We use a crosslinker that makes our dyes resistant to cleaning chemicals after that.
Some items are inexpensive and it is more economical to buy new ones, but in other cases, this is not valid. Bring your car to our shop or send digital photos, and we can advise you.
Car Pool Detail can match almost any texture or color of leather, vinyl, or fabric.
Yes. Re-upholstery is as durable as your original items that came from the manufacturer.
Car Pool Detail cannot repair bent, chrome, or cracked wheels. We can repair scuffing, scratching, chipping, and paint failure.
With proper care, wheel repair lasts as long as the factory finish.
We do not remove your tire to do wheel repair so rebalancing isn’t necessary.
Car Pool Detail requires 7 hours for wheel repair.
Car Pool Detail requires 6 hours to tint your car windows.
Yes, Car Pool Detail removes tint and leaves your windows as is, or installs new tint.
No.
Car Pool Detail uses a clean environment for tinting and you’ll find no dirt. It is impossible to apply a tint without a few tiny bubbles but they won’t be visible unless you look very closely–4 inches away or less.
Do not roll down your windows for 48 hours. For 7 days, you may notice a slight haziness as the adhesive cures–this is normal.
Use a clean towel and tint-safe glass cleaner best found in auto parts stores.
