The Detail Solutions Podcast

Kyle Kamas joined me this week to talk about his journey into detailing. Like many others it all started with wanting to take care of his personal vehicle. Living close to Rupes in Colorado Kyle took every advantage to attend training classes at the Rupes Training Facility. This eventually led to Jason Rose offering him a position at Rupes to help with trainings. After a little over a year Kyle le...

I met Jeff Davis and Donnial Patterson at Renny's SEMA party. I saw them wearing The Detailer's Lounge Podcast shirts and wanted to know more about their show. Jeff told me that it wasn't up at the time but they were working on it. It was born out of the guys doing a consulting and mentorship program on Zoom. I invited the guys to come on and talk about how they got started and why the...

After SEMA Joe Kimball reached out to me with an idea to talk about Joey's first trip to SEMA. He wanted to discuss the things he witnessed within the industry and where people's hearts are. Anyone who got the chance to have an encounter with Joey would've seen how welcomed Joey was by everyone. They would've seen how well he was treated too. You would've watched grown men laug...

I'm back from SEMA and what a blast it was. I got to see all my friends and even met some that I've only ever talked to on Facebook. I gave Jason the rundown of my week at SEMA and we played some of the video/audio from the different guests I had on at the show. We get to hear about new products from Buff n Shine, igl, The Rag Co., Getech, PRO, Dynabrade, Sonax, Vyper and lastly the Rupes....

Dale Guthrie is the host of The Detailing Down Under Podcast and we finally caught up with him to talk about his journey in detailing and what made him start a podcast. We talked to Dale about his mining job and how that impacts his detailing and podcasting. We asked Dale about his dream guests for the pod and what type of episodes he'd like to do in the future. Support this show and follow us...

Took the audio from when I went to Sky's the Limit Car Care in Sanford, Fl a couple weeks back to make this episode. I was there to see my buddy Chris Racana from Dr. Beasley's because he was doing a demo for their NSP's. We got to hear how Jim came up with these NSP's and why they're different than other primer polishes. Chris also explains their AIO primer polish and how just...

It's been a while since Stephen Trapp was on the podcast and in that time he's done some BIG things. Stephen has moved Blue Star Auto Salon into a bigger facility, he's grown the business by offering ppf and window tint services and he hired a media team to help him grow his YouTube channel. His YouTube channel has over 12K subscribers and 178 videos demonstrating not only Blue Star&#3...

Porsha Rose started working on cars with her family learning how to "chop" them up and painting them. She went from foster care to being Married with Children, then getting real sick. She eventually beat her illness and found her way helping a friend doing paint work for dealerships, fixing rock chips and scratches. After a bit she decided to go out on her own and start to also add in de...

MTE registration is open and Sheldon Kaye is here to tell us what's new for 2024. New Venue, New Vendors and New Competitions(maybe). Also it's time we start begging for Golden Mic nominations, so get ready for that. Jason and I then try to talk sports and mention some famous names we can tag in the show, like Joe Rogan, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Travis and Jason Kelce, Dave Portnoy and...

Mike Turner like some started his detailing career in a body shop. Mike worked in his dad's body shop as a finisher, he would denib, hand sand and polish the cars as they came out of paint. Mike went on to start his own detailing business starting out as a mobile detailer and then quickly moving to his home studio, but still caring for some clients mobile-y. Mike has become a mentor for a grou...

Jason Bruno sent me a post a couple weeks back talking about A.I. paint correction as an idea for a topic. So we sent out the DSP signal to the one man we knew would have some info on it, Jason Rose. Jason Rose said guys I have a lot of info on it so sit back and be prepared to be scared or amazed. Jason Rose talks about how A.I. Robotics are already in use in several facilities for car manufactur...

Malek Darwish is a 21 year old University student in Canada that has started his own chemical brand. After running a mobile business Malek decided he wanted to start his own chemical brand. He asked his father for some help, luckily his father owns a business with a chemist in his employ. They came up with 13 products and Malek now blends, bottles and labels all the products himself. He started ou...

Randy Hobson invited Jason to join his fishing tournament at MTE. Randy's fishing tournament helps raises money for PDR guys that have health issues that prevent them from earning wages. Randy would like to get the detail industry involved, so his charity can help detailers too. Support this show and follow us on Facebook: @thedetailsolutionspodcast and @thedetailsolutionspodcastdiscussiongrou...

I sat down with Pete Muller from Tint World Orlando to talk about how he incorporated detailing into a stereo and tint business. Pete started very early in the stereo installation and competition world, quickly moving into sales and brand building. He was given the chance to buy a franchise for the Orlando market and never looked back. Pete started with stereo installation and window tinting, but...

Have any of your social media accounts been h@ck3d, whether it was your personal account or business account either on Facebook or Instagram. Did it effect your business or personal page? Did you know how to handle it and get your accounts back? Well Jonathan Michael Monson had quite the experience with his accounts getting h@ck3d, to the point where funds were being effected! Tune in tonight to h...

Parker Lee just turned 16 and he's killing it as an up and coming detailer. Parker started detailing his friends and family cars and then started to grow his business by word of mouth. After putting in a full day at school Parker comes home and starts working on his detail jobs until 11-12 at night. He has to split time every other weekend at his dad's house, so those weekends he can't...

At AFO project I met Josh from DuraSlic coatings. He put me in touch with Brian to have on the show and do a product spotlight for them. DuraSlic is a true ceramic coating that protects vehicles from scuff, scratches, water stains, tar, corrosion and harmful UV. Brian gives us the full run down on all their products, how the company was started and where you can sign up if interested. Support this...

Sam Spirer talks about starting his detail business in California using rinseless wash methods do to water restrictions. After multiple shop moves because of terrible landlords or shady partners, he finally landed in a perfect location to grow his business. Sam totally took on the entrepreneur spirit and grew his shop to great heights adding services like ppf, tint, wheel repair, and a few other a...

Adam Pitale started detailing bikes then on to cars and then onto distributing the chemicals he was using at the flea market. After getting kicked out of college Adam spent some time in Australia doing what he did best, detailing. After building a successful Detail business there he sold it and moved back to the States, where he started selling product on the weekends at the Flea market. Adam star...

The other day I asked the question in the discussion group What's the one thing that you feel you just can't master in your business? Two of the most common answers were, lack of self confidence in sales ability or in raising prices and Marketing issues with where and how do you market your business be it social media, AdWords, SEO's etc. So I reached out to Donnie Anderson and J.P. My...

Chris Williams joined me on this episode to talk about how he started detailing, the Mafia and his dream business setup. Chris started detailing when he betrayed his brothers in blue and became a firefighter, just kidding he made the move because it was better for his mental health. Building a nice little client list Chris eventually left his corporate job and took on detailing full time. After at...

Many of you know Tom Smith as Tom Buff Brite the maker of tools such as the Flamethrower polishing light system (Beep)or the Fur-eel pet hair vacuum tool (Beep)or the Buff Brite detail skinz customizable polisher covers(Beep). On this episode we talk to Tom and find out how he came up with all these amazing inventions(Beep) and what he has in store for us next(Beep). Check out all of Tom's pro...

Frank Oaks is the owner of Zero Dark Thirty detailing in Texas. Frank worked as a firefighter after his time in the Army and a short 4 years ago started to dabble in detailing. He eventually left the firehouse to start detailing full time. Frank has grown the business with the addition of ppf and window tinting to now hiring an employee to help him with all the work coming in. We talked about the...

Chris Williams joins on tonight's topic of How do you handle a last minute cancellation or inclement weather? Those are typically the times to clean and straighten up the shop. Some like to take that time to work on marketing or re-tool their website. Or some people just say fuck it and use that time to relax and take a day off. Which type of detailer are you? Support this show and follow us o...

We said if you want to be a guest on the show to email us. Well Matt Burroughs from Custom Suds detailing in Delaware did just that. Matt was super nervous and excited to come on the podcast that he listens to all the time. We had a great talk about how he got into detailing and he even asked me some questions about how he should do things. We talked a good deal about Autofiber(you're welcome...