what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

[KC's]

what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

Fulfilling your passion, $$, win your neighbor hearts, free meals, etcs

[Andy M.]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

I would have to say the finished product. Regardless of what I get paid for a detail, I still like to stand back and admire what I have accomplished. I take a lot of pride in it. I would have to say that is my biggest reward.

Andy

[KC's]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

I would have to say the finished product. Regardless of what I get paid for a detail, I still like to stand back and admire what I have accomplished. I take a lot of pride in it. I would have to say that is my biggest reward.

Andy

verily verily i say to you....very true

[Zeta Detail]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

Learning!

[Mike Phillips]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

Sometimes it's just helping someone to get what they want.

I've met a lot of car guys that have really cool cars and everything about the car is awesome except the condition of the paint. Usually it's all swirled out by some hack detailer or after the great and famous painters painted the car it was turned over to the other guy to sand and buff it and the guy that does all the sanding and buffing for the great painter destroys what was a great paint job.

Most really good painters I've known love painting, but sanding and buffing is a ton of hard, dirty work so they delegate that to someone else and that's where their hard work gets destroyed.

Back to the question...

Lots of guy build or have built some really cool car and the above is what happens. So now they have this really cool car but the paint looks horrible. They don't know how to fix it but they wont' let anyone else touch their baby because they don't trust anyone.

So they always looks swirled out.

This topic has come up on this forum before, usually the thread is something like,

How come all the cars at the car show are all swirled out?

And what I wrote above is the reason. The car was hacked-up by either a detailer or a painter's helper, the owner doesn't know how to fix it and he doesn't trust anyone else to touch the car.

So for me, a lot of time it's never about the money, it's about earning the trust of some guy that doesn't know you from Adam and he lets you touch his car and if you know what you're doing, you're able to fix the problem and help the guy to get what he wants. The complete picture, the car that looks the way it's supposed to.

That's the reward I like. The above story completely played out yet again last Saturday when I had the good fortune to buff out a 1957 Chevy for a guy. The car has been 4-5 years in the building process but the finish was atrocious. He didn't know how to fix it and he didn't trust anyone else to touch it.

Anyway, it went from this,







to this,










The owner said it never looked this good since it was painted. That's the reward I like to get, helping someone else get what they want.


There's a corny old Zig Ziglar quote that goes like this,

"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want"


I don't know if it's true but it sounds good.

[Autobrite]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

The look on the owner's face when they see their vehicle and fall in love with it all over again!

[CieraSL]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

The actual process of detailing, being able to stand back and admire it when I'm done, and doing a writeup on MOL!

[SHYNEMAN123]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

Mine would be when my 6 year old "RUDY" asks Dad can I help you shine up the old cars.

[Calais]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

Money.

Also, the "wow" factor when people look at a car that I've spent a lot of time on. How they go on about it looking like a new car. I love that.

[visaliaipa]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

My wife is very appreciative when I get her car washed, clean and shiny. She also likes it when the interior is clean, nice smelling and the leather dressed.

[Fischer]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

Definitely the wow factor. Money is always good but I love seeing people fall in love with their car all over again.

[KC's]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

Zig Ziglar quote comes very true

"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want"

thanks to Mike Phillips, Autobrite, Calais, Fischer, Andy M. to make drivers falling in love with their ride all over again

Thanks also to visaliaipa for loving his wife by showing his appreciations thru his labor to his beloved...

thanks to Frank aka SHYNEMAN123 for leaving his legacy.....to his heirs


this is what i got & clinging on to it, after 5 hours of sweet sweat detailing of a CRV
http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37200
it is worth it all, to see the smiles on the owner face again

[Eddie6th]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

Just the satisfaction of seeing a highly polished car whether it be mine or a friends. The challenge of certain tasks. Some tasks nice,some not.
If I did it for a living,then money would have to be a factor.

[the_invisible]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

girls like boys who have shiny rides... !

[KC's]

Re: what is your greatest rewards for detailing?

EDDIE & iNVISIBLE SAY IT WELL