Car detailing singapore
what is car detailing
Car detailing is a very broad subject. In essence, every step we take to work on a car can be called detailing as it is all about the little details, exterior detailing and interior detailing. Also, when you want your car to be detailed, you have to know what you want to get detailed and to what extent it can be worked on. A little known fact is that paint, leather, hard plastics and other parts on the car have a limitation to how much they can be worked on. It depends on their quality and some instance, the extent of the damage.
Benefits Of Detailing
Getting your car detailed routinely is beneficial for your interior and exterior, it keeps them clean and protected. This is also beneficial for cars in Singapore as we usually keep our cars for about 10 years and sell them. Having a well maintained car with good interior and exterior condition is beneficial when selling. When your car’s interior is detailed, it may be a thorough scrub down or steam cleaning of your interior. After this step, your interior surfaces are clean and free of contaminants. However, you have to keep the surfaces protected by conditioning or coating. This preserves the surfaces’ quality and prolongs its lifespan. Likewise, for exterior detailing, you may get your car exterior polished and waxed or ceramic coated for lasting protection. When your car exterior is polished, it leaves the paint naked and exposed. Stains and contaminants will easily damage your paint. This is where you either apply a wax routinely or get your car ceramic coated. They provide your exterior with protection and helps your paint look good. Knowing how often you need to maintain your wax or ceramic coating is crucial as it depleted over time. Wax typically needs maintenance every 1-2 months depending on the type of wax used. Ceramic coating needs maintenance once every 1 or 2 years depending on the type of ceramic coating used.
Car wash is a time-saving process of getting your cleaned quickly, washing away dirt and grime. Car detailing is a more thorough process of cleaning the interior and exterior of your car, carefully. This requires more time and precision.
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difference between detailing and car wash
detailing
detailing
Car detailing is a more precise process compared to car wash. It is targeted cleaning on the exterior and interior areas requested by a client. It takes more time as it gets into the little details that a car wash usually does not get into. For the exterior, the body of the car must be decontaminated through a thorough wash and all clay bar treated. Once that has been completed, the next step will be to polish the car and not miss any spots. This is achieved by working in small parts at a time and ensuring consistency. Finally, the car would have to be IPA treated to clear all oils from the polishing compound and then apply a wax or ceramic coating. As for the interior, a thorough scrub and steam is the way to go to remove all germs and dusts
car wash
car wash
Car wash is fairly quick to wash off dirt and grime so that it does not stick and stain the exterior of the car. The longer the dirt and grime stays on a car, the more damaging it is. Acidic contaminants will eat through the lacquer and cause the paint to look irregular. As car washes are meant to be quick, the interior will be vacuumed and wiped down to maintain cleanliness.
Monthly Promotion
Driven Detailing will be carrying out various monthly promotions! We are currently having a promotion for ceramic coating, starting from only $168! With our usual price for ceramic coating starting from $588, this is a bargain! For detailed car wash, our price starts from $35 only instead of the usual $50!
11 steps of detailing
A full detail would consist of the following steps.
Steps for Exterior detailing
We start the detailing process by prepping the car first. A car wash to get rid of all dirt and grime on the car’s exterior, this includes areas that are hard to see and reach too. After the wash, we will proceed to chemical wash the rims. A clay bar treatment is then followed to smoothen the car and get rid of any remaining contaminants on the paint of the car. A final wash and now the car is ready for polishing. The car will go through a 3-step polish where it is polished twice with two different cutting compounds and then followed by a finish. Once the polishing is done, there are polishing compounds left on the paint of the car. Ceramic coating will not bond properly with the paint if the surface is not clean. To prepare the paint for ceramic coating, we will do a IPA wipe down which is surface decontamination. Now that the car’s surfaces are clean and ready, we will apply the ceramic coating to the body, windows, rims, head & tail lights and hard plastics. Finally, we will apply a tyre shine and the exterior works for the car is done.
- Foam Wash
- Chemical Rim Wash
- Clay Bar Treatment
- 3-step Paint Correction
- IPA Wipe Down (Surface Decontamination)
- Application of Ceramic Coating on;
- Body of Car
- Windows
- Rims
- Head & Tail Lights
- Hard Plastic
- Application of Tyre Shine to complete the whole look of the car
Steps for Interior detailing
An interior detail starts with vacuuming the whole interior and getting rid of any debris. We will then proceed to scrub the whole interior of the car with an interior cleaner and then steam clean the interior too. As for the fabric car mats and seats, they will go through an extraction process where we extract the dirt from within through an extractor. After the cleaning process, it is time to protect the interior. All hard plastic surfaces will be conditioned and all leather surfaces will be coated with a leather coating. Finally, sanitisation to kill the germs and keep the car hygienic and smelling good.
- Vacuum
- Full Scrub Down*
- Full Steam Cleaning*
- Extraction for Floor Mats & Non-Leather
- Seats Window Cleaning
- Plastic Conditioning
- Leather Coating
- Sanitisation
How to get to driven?
Driven Detailing is located at #02-15 Sin Ming Autocity. It is a 7 minute drive from PIE Lornie exit, 7 minute drive from CTE Ang
Mo Kio Ave 1 exit and 15 minute drive from SLE Upper Thomson exit.