Pints and Polishing Auto Detailing Podcast

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we invite detailers from around the country to enjoy some beers and have a great discussion.  In this episode, we enjoy talking through things we wish people did before they bring in a detail but also a great topic is how you would describe a good detailer to a friend.  It's the Tab Out question that really has everyone laughing...so grab a pint and...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today we have some fun topics to discuss on the episode from trim restoration, car buying, inspecting vehicles, and what do customers understand when it comes to car care. There are a lot of misconceptions around faded trim and we clear up those misconceptions during todays episode. Also, lets discuss car buying and what should go on during inspecting a v...

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection! We talk about dealing with tough customers on todays episode. Nick talks about a customer last week that called 6 Tims, sent 1 email, and a demanding text message. How do we deal with a tough customer? How do we make them a positive? That leads to a discussion on the reality around sales and your business.  Also we discuss some auctio...

If you have an OCD twitch, then you have come to the right place. Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub and welcome to a great discussion about detailing cars.  In this episode, we have a heavy discussion about microfiber towels, towel maintenance but it's the tab out question that has everyone chiming in.  So what about you...what's your unwritten rule in detailing? Share with us at the hyper...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast! Let's have some fun today talking about ceramic coatings, detailing conspiracy theories, and recap some fun things from the Super Bowl. We have all heard about corrosive things that damage coatings but are they true? There are a lot of questions around things like UV Rays, chemicals, and especially road salt. Does road salt damage a ceramic coating on a r...

Welcome to another episode of the detailed car collection! Today we aren't going to talk cars we are going to talk about owning a small auto detailing business. There is a lot of noise and content around professional auto detailing coming from every angle. What are the actual FACTS around your small business instead of always hearing the opinions of so many. Opinions are great when they are based...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we enjoy cold beers and great discussions about our car life but this is one of the funniest episodes we have recorded.  We have a fun talk about what we find satisfying in detailing but its the Tab Out Question that has everyone rolling. So grab a pint and enjoy 🍻

Welcome to a new episode of the podcast. Today we have some really great topics that we have an excellent time discussing. Lets start with I am going to Hire and Attorney Guy! We saw a post on Facebook from a detailer about hiring an attorney to stop ex employees from stealing clients and it showed us a lot in a simple post. We discuss the truth about hiring an attorney and what actually goes on a...

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection! Today we talk about Barrett Jackson Scottsdale 2023. Don't miss the exciting results of the 2023 Barrett Jackson Auto Auction as we go through some of the heavy hitters. We dive deep into the details of this year's auction and who walked away with some amazing deals.  Also, on today's podcast we discuss the state of the used car market. We...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we enjoy having a cold beer and discussing our experiences as car guys. If you're like me, then you have been at a stop light but looked over at the car next to you and wondered why someone picked out that color of car.   In this episode, we talk with Detailers from across the country and they give their opinions on the worst colored vehicles...but a...

Welcome to the podcast and we get to discuss a wild detail that may fall in your lap. In the hyperCLEAN Specialists group a detailer shares a story of cat urine on the interior of an extremely nice vehicle. How did this happen is the first question all of us have in this situation, right? But it happened and now we have to solve the issue. What type of cleaners or processes can you use in this sit...

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection! Today we are discussing the question that we seem to be getting every day, how do I price this service. Can someone give me what I should charge for xyz service? That is a question that no one can answer for you but today we discuss how to simply set your own pricing. The importance is to know your baseline costs and go from there.  W...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we enjoy cold beer and discussions about our car life. In this episode, you will hear from Detailers about their views on what is needed to start a mobile detailing business but the most interesting conversation is from the tab out question.  What do you think...what is the number one example of a car that is fun to look at but not detail? Join us in a fun dis...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. We have a few really great topics today including the reality of car washes vs auto detailers and  the reality of those businesses. There is a big belief that car washes take business from the auto detailing world but the truth is we should be taking their business. There are guys constantly complaining about the car wash down the street but then the...

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection! Today we are going to talk about some simple math that we all can do to drive success in our business and the car market. There is often times this idea that things have to be difficult to be successful and in the world of detailing it's not even close to being true. But also we can use simple math to understand the crashing car market and...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we enjoy cold beers and great conversations about enjoying our car life.  In this episode, we discuss the different points of view on interior detailing.  What do you think? Should you always use a tool like a Tornador? Side note the first distributors of the Tornador was Dehn's Innovations but hey were as startup mom and pop operation.  We also...

Welcome to todays episode where we dig in to a lot of really important and fun topics. We get asked all the time about how to start a maintenance program and have success. Today we dive into some of those questions and go in depth to educate how we have seen it work in the auto detailing business. We also discuss what is a hobby and what is a business. Can you do both in your auto detailing journe...

Welcome back to the podcast and this weeks episode of the Detailed Car Collection. We had a 2023 Mercedes EQS in the shop and we talk about the ceramic coating package that we used on this car. Making win win situations when it comes to ceramic coatings is the key to making money long term. Keeping it simple will always win in the end and we discuss that thought on todays episode. Also we discuss...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we enjoy cold beer and great conversations about detailing.  In this episode, we discuss a thought that comes from the hyperCLEAN Specialist Group on Facebook about how social media has ruined interior detailing with all the transformation videos.  It is curious why detailers don't post as many interior pics as they do exterior.  It's an interes...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast and we have some great topics on todays episode. One of the most important things you will do is price your surfaces as you get going in your business. The hardest thing is to know your market and what prices you can push to the end customer to drive your business. Have you thought about being a sales and marketing business instead of being a detailing bus...

Welcome to the first Detailed Car Collection Episode of 2023! I wanted to share a lesson that I learned this week after reading all the stuff around Ken Block's passing. Ken Block was probably the most significant car culture guy of my lifetime and changed the way car content was thought about on the internet. But as I watched all of the outpouring this week I noticed what some of the people said...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub and in this episode we are getting cold but still going. So what's the coldest temperature you have applied a ceramic coating? Join in on the discussion at the hyperCLEAN Specialist Group on Facebook as we also discuss the mindset of people who close down.  Why do people close in the winter when others stay open? Let's dive into this discussion....so grab a pin...

Welcome the first podcast of 2023! Today we are going to discuss how to build your detailing packages to crush your business goals in the coming year. There are a few simple ways to look at packages that lead to success over and over. Today we will discuss some of the simplest ways to sell more detailing in 2023.  Also we discuss some car manufacturers releases for 2023. Are we seeing the fin...

Welcome to the last podcast of 2022! We have a great story from a project that came into the shop this week and discuss all of the issues that we discovered on a Ferrari 488. What happens when someone uses the wrong chemicals on the inside of a car? How do you fix it? We discuss that on todays episode. Then I discuss information and the importance it will play in your career and life in 2023 and b...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we enjoy cold beers and talk about our car life.  In this episode, detailers from across the country discuss changes they made in 2022 but the nuggets of the episode are when they start talking about their outlook of 2023.  So make sure that you grab a pint and enjoy this episode 🍻