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not too many people in the market for an Aston Martin HUH???:gr_jest:

 

I can't even afford to think of a comment on those cars!

 

The ENZO in your avatar perhaps! atriot:

 

My thought is this.

Getting a dealer onboard may be a tough sell. it would be hard and counter productive for a dealer to say "after you buy this $100,000 car, we recommend having the paint proffesionally detailed because there are alot of small flaws in the paint that while it looks good, is actually a not so hot paint job". i would assume that they want there customers to believe that the car is already perfect in every way.

 

:iagree:

Good Luck anyway!

 

great work man props to you...IMP there is only 1 austin martin thats worth buying thats the db9s...other than that i think your sol on trying to sell that car on these boards my friend

 

Also, there are some Sales reps who could sell honey to bee's!!

 

I think it is all in the sell. There are people who will buy a top end car and use it as a daily driver. I used to work for a guy who had the latest and greatest Porsche Carrara every year. What do they run $180K to $250K? He would drive it through the car wash once a week. The car cried. He didn't care. It was a status symbol, not a passion.

Then there are the GTO guys that would gladly pay you $600 for a mirror like finish. I'm one of them but my paint no longer matchs and you are 1800 miles away

If you have a good salesman, they can sell the hell out of that service without devaluing their normal product.

I would stick to one or two high end dealerships, keep one car on their floor done. If it sells you get your cut but more importantly the salesperson can walk a customer over and say "The paint on these are great.. but if you are buying the car to be a work of art, look at this..."

Also, I would take a careful look at each brand and their models. then you can have set rate for each car on their floor and the dealer can tack on their own bit.

 

If I were buying anything like that, you better believe I would have the paint taken care of right off. I WISH I DID IT ON THE GTO! Id love to get rid of the orange peel. Really... Its a no brainer. IMO, it should already be done when you buy the car.

 

+ 1, sell it as an enhancement, not a correctional.


and btw, since i cant come to cali for your services, would you mind sending my a pm with how to do that to my car. mainly speaking of the wet sand, i have no idea what you mean by this and i would LOVE to be able to get my car that mirror shiny. NOONE in my area is good enough to make it look like that, on any car. TIA

 

yeeyahh +1 for me. lol


If the wet sanding isnt too much, id love to have it done to the goat... If I get some touch up paint, and do a shitty job, will the wet sander flatten it out anyway?

 

but to answer your question wich i seemed to skip yes if i was buying one of those cars i would pay the little extra to have that done

 

Make some brochures about how it is an enhancement and have the nicest, fastest, most expensive car in the show room sporting your detailing work.

And don't over extend yourself by getting into contracts with multiple dealerships.

 

You have to make the pitch to the dealerships owner that you are a part of their team and that the buyer won't get the impression that the vehicle is defective itself.

The right dealership will look at it for what it is, an enhancement making an exotic that much better than the next, and something only that dealership offers.

You have to find a dealership with the right clients though.

 

id say offer it at $3k-4.5k. for people who can afford high end cars would see that as a couple bucks more. in so cal there's no shortage of people like that. after all, we see more expensive cars rolling around in the streets than most of the country.

edit: in other words i'd pay up to 5 grand more to have a better looking aston martin than that other guy who lives up the hill. :burnout:

 

qft

 

thanks for all the replies guys.
Here is a real quick simple break down of the process.

after you measuring. (which on these cars is between 8-12 mills... on ours its 5-8!!)

Sanding has to be done in 3 stages. IE: Heavy OP= 1500 grit starting point. then you follow with 2000, then 2500/or 3000. The 3000 evens out all the scratches. You do it 3 stages so each grit works down the scratches you just put in before it. You have to put scratches in to get them out!
The rule of thumb is to do all the work with the sand paper, the buffing should be minimised as much as possible. You will burn through paint with a rotary and a thick wool pad much quicker in many cases that with sand paper.
The buffing is done with a wool pad first, then foam heavy cut, then light cut. YOu then use a swirl remover intermediate cut, then a final polish. All these stages require multiple passes. Now... theres where you can haev problems. If you buff the same area too many times you heat the paint which can lead to melting very easily.
This whoel process requires towels to cover the wheels and the windows etc... lots of masking tape and lots of good lighting to see your results. I can almost do it now to where I know when im done and have a perfect surface but you need lights to check.

After all this the HD cleanse (Zymol) is applied which pops the real colour of the car. You will be amazed at this point. Its hard to explaiin what it loos like in person.

Then feeding with the high end Carny.... just pure art!!!

 

Well, you obviously have convinced some customers with very high-end cars that they should try this and are very happy with the results. I think that verifies the service you provide. I would agree with the other posters though that it should be sold as an enhancement only (avoiding words like 'correction' in a high-end showroom would be a must.)

You would have to convince the dealer to let you do a car in his inventory and then display it in the showroom. This might be a little harder sell. If you pull up in one of your customer's Mercedes or Porsche's along with an untreated one it may help. But even still Aston's and Bentley's are another notch up and probably a bit more difficult to convince a dealer (who has a note on the car himself and must sell it) to let you essentially take sandpaper to it.

Perhaps start with Mercedes or Porsche dealers and see how that goes? Then move up the food chain?

The cars look *really* good BTW. Good luck.

 

yeah you're right. Thanks man

im gonna investigate mercs as well.

 

Yeah, but do you have a degree in Chemical Engineering?:wall:

 

not right now but I will in about 10 minutes... let me just print out a degree and put it on a cheesy piece of wood... back in a sec.
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Thats not goign to stay funny forever,, though its still amusing right now!

 

not sure if it was said, but I was watching unique whips and thought that a place like that might be easier to sell to the customer than the dealer