If you seats are leather - no need to keep reading. If you have cloth or fabric seats, the shampoo and hot water extraction service is essential to keep your vehicle clean and sanitary. Even after a few months to a year of regular use, fabric seats trap dirt. This sometimes will cause discoloration, bad smells, stains and takes away from the aesthetic appeal of your car. A high quality shampoo treatment for your seats is one of the best investments you can make for you cars interior. This is often the main point of focus when our customers purchase an interior detail.
What's the Process?We use a 3 step process for all our shampoo treatments. First we bathe the seats in a thick shampoo foam, then we use spinning power brushes to agitate the seats and work the product in. Then we use a commercial hot water extractor suck all of the contaminant out of the seats. The extraction step is essential and having the right equipment makes a huge difference. We use the Mytee 300-H hot water extractor which is the best extractor on the market. The heating element is critical for deep cleaning, disinfecting and removing stains from your seats like shown above.
We equate the shampoo and extraction process to putting your seats through the laundry machine (and using lots of stain remover of course). That means that one pesky stain that never comes out of your sweatshirt, say, an olive stain, might not be able to come out of your seats either. This is the best way to clean and remove stains from your seats, but of course there are limitations to how effective the seat shampoo can be for removing stains. Rest assured, we get pretty exceptional results.
Our seat shampoo and extraction process takes around 45 minutes to an hour to complete. A lot o the cars we work don't have fabric seats or don't require shampoo. For this reason, we offer seat shampoo treatments as an add on to your detail to help keep our prices down. Luckily our shampoo treatments (for 2 row vehicles) are actually below San Diego market prices at only $50 on top of your detail. It's a killer deal.
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Perfection & Protection.
Frustrated with everything that the car wash leaves behind?
Does your paint not shine like it used to?
In love with your car and want to preserve your investment for the long term?
That is why we are here. Not only do we leave you with flawless results, but we make sure that your paint, leather, and other materials are protected for years to come. We will treat your car (and you) like one of our own.
The shampoo and hot water extraction is the best possible care for your FABRIC seats.
We will bathe your seats in thick foam shampoo, agitate it with a fabric brush attachment on a drill, and then extract all the grime, dirt, stains and contaminant from the seats with hot water at 210ºF.If your seats need a refresh, this is as good as it gets. Because the service takes 45 minutes on average, and only a small percent of vehicles need it we charge extra for it. Don't worry - its only $50 extra. Totally worth it.
Do you have any little scrapes and scratches that bother you?
We can handle it.. to an extent. We are polishing experts - so if the scratch isn't too deep, we can get it out. Ever heard of "The Fingernail Test", this is a great way to know if your scratches are fixable. If you feel the scratch will your fingernail and you can feel a groove in the paint, it it probably a little bit too deep ~in the sections where the groove is~
A clay bar is exactly what it sounds like, a little ball of malleable puddy.
This is used in the decontamination phase of the detail to prepare your paint for protection.
Every exterior detail has 3 phases: 1. Wash 2. Decontaminate 3. Protect.The decontamination stage is responsible for removing from the paint everything that doesn't come off from the wash.
Remember when you bought your car and the paint was smooth to the touch? That is the goal of this stage. Remove all the crusty junk that is stuck to you paint. This way, when we apply sealant (protection) to your paint it will adhere to the paint itself, rather than the junk sitting on the surface. This will give the sealant its longest possible useful life.
For the same reason that you get an oil change. Engines are expensive to replace (8-15K) so we take good care of them. So is your paint - the average paint job costing around $5,000. If you don't protect your paint with some type of ceramic, wax, or sealant, your paint WILL fail.
In San Diego, our biggest enemy is the sun, or the salt if you live near the beach. Next time you are in a big parking lot, look around at the hoods of the vehicles. You will notice around 1/6 vehicles have completely delaminated clear coat.
That means the paint looks like dead skin on the surface and you could peel it off with you fingers. Not pretty. There is a simple solution to ensure your vehicle never ends up like this. Exterior Detailing. Bonus points for a ceramic coating with is the best protection possible.
In all honesty, we don't love doing "Mini Details"... That's because they aren't perfect.
If you have the budget for a "Full Detail", we will always try and push you that way. The biggest difference is one thing - TIME.
Since we know full detailing service is a little too pricey for some customer, we have decided to offer a cheaper service - the downside is that we have to compromise on quality as a result. In our experience, it takes 3.5-4 hours per car to deliver flawless results to our customers.
Full Details are guaranteed satisfaction. If we miss anything, or you aren't satisfied with the results, we will be back for a free touch up ASAP. To compensate for the lower price, The "Mini Detail" compresses a 4 hour service into a 2 hour service. Yes, this means we have to cut some corner and cannot guarantee perfection the way we do with our "Full Detail" service.
