So as I drove through the company parking lot the other day, my car got sprayed by this team doing “mobile detailing” of someone’s car. I just had to ask myself “what the hell is a mobile detailer?” I mean, isn’t detailing just a car wash you pay twice as much for? How did these car washers come to call themselves “mobile detailers,” anyway?
What about those guys who step off street corners and squeegie your windshield for change? Do they call themselves “mobile detailers?” If so, can they join the Union of Mobile Detailers? Is there a secret handshake involved?
What I can’t understand is that there are actually franchises for mobile detailers. Franchises on wheels! How to they define their territory? By grafitti on bridges? Do rival mobile detailers wash it off?
I think there’s an underground culture here that needs investigating.
It’s not quite “just a carwash”. We had one guy come out to Oculan once (perhaps before you started, maybe) and in addition to washing and waxing the car, he completely cleaned out the entire inside of the car such that it was basically as if the car was brand new. It wasn’t bad for the price (which of course, I don’t remember, but it wasn’t much) and it was much more than I would have done. I wouldn’t have it done every month, but once in a while, sure.
Why do some of those vans look like no one ever cleans them? Do they think that’s a very good way of advertising their business?
“Oh, I’m so busy I can’t even detail my van.”
NEWS FLASH: If your Mobile Detailing van is not spotless (not brand new, mind you) why would I want to pay you to clean my car?