Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

[Show N Tell]

Is there any way to make easier while doing mobile detailing during the winter? We have a few months untill the weather drops here in NY and I am wondering what do you guys do when temps drop below 50 degrees? Is there any kind of tent we can use to keep a small area warm while doing a detail outside in the cold?

Help me out!!!

[FinalTouchDetail]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

Dress warm and use ONR or DP Wash n Gloss

[Fly Bye]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

Dress warm

[hacker-pschorr]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

He said below 50, last time I checked the problems start closer to 32

50 degrees, winter?? Funny, we call that "October"

We don't take the boat out of the water until ice starts to form.


Sorry......

[Show N Tell]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

Ok let me try that again, under 32 degrees! I have detailed in my garage when it was 32 degrees or less and I was freezing my *** off, I cant imagine doing it all outside!

[Bill Davidson]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

You can get welding tents in all shapes and sizes, but that's a lot to pack around will require set-up time. You can heat them with a propane heater if you really want to.

I'd look at one of the mobile shelters that the detailers in California and warmer climates tend to favor and then put a tarp up on the side that the wind is blowing from.

[J. A. Michaels]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

Tough call. Maybe you could use the clients garage if you have to come to them.

[Ravi_1992]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

Wouldn't there be problems with water freezing when the temperature really drops a lot

[FinalTouchDetail]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

Wouldn't there be problems with water freezing when the temperature really drops a lot

That's why you use a solution of ONR or DP Wash and Gloss.

Wipe on, wipe off, done.

[JG_Detailing]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

I detail up to October. Most of my customers want there vehicle's waxed and prep for the winter season.

[Tuck91]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

That's why you use a solution of ONR or DP Wash and Gloss.

Wipe on, wipe off, done.

How is anyone cleaning the wheel wells with an ONR type product?

[FinalTouchDetail]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

A scrub brush or wheel-well brush of sorts.

Of course it has it's limits, but for most normal details you can do a LOT with a rinseless wash.

[boiler7904]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

How is anyone cleaning the wheel wells with an ONR type product?

When I use ONR, I go paint, wheels, wheel wells using my normal wheel and wheel well brushes. Pre-spraying with APC helps on the wells but they don't get as clean as using a hose.

As far as tires go, since they're my own vehicles, I use Meguiar's Hot Shine Tire Foam if they aren't too bad. It has some cleaning ability to it so even my white letters do end up a little better than they start out - again not as good as a typical 2 bucket and hose/foam gun wash but good enough when we're in the thick of a Chicago winter (or when I'm washing the truck in my hotel parking lot while working out of town for months on end).

[Matt Majeika]

Re: Mobile Detailing - During the winter?

How is anyone cleaning the wheel wells with an ONR type product?

I pre-spray with APC+ when doing the wheels / wheel wells. Not a perfect solution, but better than nothing!

Matt