While it’s true that a do-it-yourselfer can clean a car with items in a common garage, there are issues that require professional equipment and experience. I’ll list some:

1. Carpet and upholstery stains. A combination of a pressure washer, carpet shampooer, steamer, and stain treatment chemicals can remove protein, ink, food, coffee, soda…even urine stains.  Crisp, clean looking seats and carpets are essential to good auto detailing.  A wet/dry vacuum and over-the-counter carpet/upholstery shampoo simply don’t treat all these issues. 

2. Paint overspray, scratches, oxidation, and swirling. The waxes and polishes available to do-it-yourselfers these days are excellent at preserving healthy paint. But if the previously listed problems develop, a combination of claybar removal, wetsanding, buffing, polishing, and waxing–applied with a high speed rotary buffer and orbital polisher–are the only means of restoring the health of your paint.

3. “Nooks and crannies.” These are areas that are simply not accessible with common tools. They include: under seats, between seats, in vents, in seams, around buttons, in crevices, around weather seals, and even in screws and bolts. A combination of specialized chemicals, brushes and compressed air allow auto detail shops to clean items like dirty knobs, vents, seals, and screws as well as access areas between and under seats to ensure a thorough cleaning of a vehicle.

We’ve made an equipment investment of over $30,000 at Ace Car Reconditioning in Beaverton to ensure that if it can be cleaned in a car detail, it WILL be cleaned in your vehicle.  Please consider us for your car detailing needs in the Portland, OR area.  Vist Portland Auto Detailing to view 50+ photos and a video