What is reasonable

[Ryan21]

Started a little velating to get some extra penny's. doing it for my brother and his business partners.

Going to wash off with autogly, then wax with autoglym resin, then deep gloss with autoglym deep gloss...

Also..

Vacuum inside, back to black all trim etc...

SO a full in and out clean, what would be reasonable to charge, considering it will take me roughly 3-4 hours per car?

[Chris]

Most places charge about £45-£50 for a full valet. So I'd say somewhere near that.... especially as you are supplying the quality branded cleaning products.

Chris :)

[Barry123]

Go on the basis of £10 an hour?

[Ryan21]

Yeh i thought 40 pound was a good price!

[R4T]

40 quid sounds reasonable

[Ryan21]

Shortlist of bookings already:

Tonight -

BMW X5
BMW 535 Diesel

Tuesday -

Audi Q7
Golf 2.0 FSI

Wednesday -

Porsche Boxter

Thursday -

Range Rover Sport HSE (Black)

Friday -

Range Rover Sport HSE (Silver)
VW Beetle Cabby

So all in all a good start, I will post some before and after pics for you all over the week.

[Chris]

Mate... I would charge slightly more for 4x4's if I was you as they will take up a lot of your time and cleaning products..... say another fiver on top.

Chris :)

[Karl]

Mate... I would charge slightly more for 4x4's if I was you as they will take up a lot of your time and cleaning products..... say another fiver on top.

Chris :)

Amen to that.

so you won't have any evenings to yourself for the next couple of weeks it sounds?

[Barry123]

also... get yourself insured, if you f**k up your ass is theirs for the bumming.

[jaybiss]

you cant really fuck up with what hes doing though ads

unless hes moving the cars himself and bumps them

hes not doing paint correction etc from what hes said

[Chris]

you cant really fuck up with what hes doing though ads

unless hes moving the cars himself and bumps them

hes not doing paint correction etc from what hes said

He may lean against the car and scratch it, or press to hard on a wing mirror and snap it off etc.

Chris :)

[jaybiss]

is he the incedrible hulk in disguise?

i cant see him doing that personally unless he washes the cars in a zip up top etc

if hes got a little common sense he will be fine ;)

[Barry123]

he might rub is commoner clothes on to the exterior of the car...

[mardon]

adsayer that is very good advice TBH!

Get on the phone to an insurance brokers. Not sure how much it'll cost though.

A valiter damaged my car. Put a scratch on the inside of the windscreen with his watch.

[R4T]

sounds good mate you mill make a pound or two from it good luck with it:D

[Barry123]

put it like this if a dude scratched my car and it transpired he had no accident insurance I'd hope to god he had Life Insurance...

[Ryan21]

Thread hijack or what...

I will be more than careful lads, will prove with pics, you only have to look at how my car is kept and its plain to see im not rubbish at doing them...

[Ryan21]

Some of these cars arw worth 60k, specially the RR'S, but majority of them work with my brother so its all good.

yes all evenings are over, but i get enoyment out of doing them

[Chris]

Some of these cars arw worth 60k, specially the RR'S, but majority of them work with my brother so its all good.

yes all evenings are over, but i get enoyment out of doing them

Make sure you've still got time for your daughter etc. :)

Get her out there with the hose pipe for you!

Chris :)

[Ryan21]

I know mate, its her and the miss's i'm doing it for, i'm after a second property as a retirement fund, struggling to get a deposit together so going into valeting, i've just ordered some graphics for advertising on rear window of the astra, it will just be evenings and weekends for now, but if i can manage to earn more than 1600 pound per month from valeting i will knock my everyday job on the head and do this full time.

I'm lucky with the list above on location, loads of room to work around the cars, I'm aiming to do both x5 and 5 series tonight within 4 hours...

Should just manage it!

[Chris]

I'm guessing you have a building that you do all this in as it wouldn't be an all year round job if it's out in the open.

Plus, can you guarentee these people will want there cars valeted often enough for you!?!?!

Chris :)

[Ryan21]

I'm guessing you have a building that you do all this in as it wouldn't be an all year round job if it's out in the open.

Plus, can you guarentee these people will want there cars valeted often enough for you!?!?!

Chris :)


Well my brother owns a metal merchants, has a big yard and massive building, so if worse come to worse then yeh i can get a building to do them in...

Guarentee's....well, i'm sure thats in the balance of my perfomance this week, i've got some good cars which are all pretty new, as long as i achieve good results and my customers are happy then i'm sure work will get repetative, when i finish the bm's tonight i will ask him when it wants booking in again and so on, we'll see....i'll keep ya posted Chris.

Plus word of mouth should get me plenty more, I've just picked up another x5 and honda cr-v for saturday morning!

[Chris]

You should take before and after pics of all of the cars and make a portfolio up, so that people can come along and see some of your previous work. You could make a website up and put the pics on there too.

Sounds like a good plan though Ryan and good luck with it Mate.

How close it Rotherham to Kent?? :y:

Chris :)

[Ryan21]

Far enough mate, going to do just that, got the digi camera ready to go...

I'll get one of the lads to build me a blog up and fire some pics over the net, I dont want to be overun with jobs at first, just want to find my feet, be quick but also do a good job, this week will be a learning curve for sure.

[Ryan21]

Pics as promised, Apologise for the poor quality, taken on my phone as the digi camera had no battery's in it when i got there, blame the mrs for that........wink....

This is how bad the X5 was when i got there

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q269/Roddis1984/Image017.jpg

5 Series, no before shots i'm afraid i was just cracking on with it...

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q269/Roddis1984/Image001.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q269/Roddis1984/Image007.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q269/Roddis1984/Image002-1.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q269/Roddis1984/Image004.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q269/Roddis1984/Image003.jpg

X 5 Inside

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q269/Roddis1984/Image008.jpg

Proper Clean, Dont ya think?

Both Cars

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q269/Roddis1984/Image005.jpg

All in all i feel i did a good job, very time consuming on the 4x4 and altered rate to 50 sheets for them, 40 just isn't enough, the chap has re-booked in for 3 weeks time, so i'm happy!

[Ryan21]

Images have come out worse than i thought!

[Chris]

Can't really tell from the pics as they are really grainy, but I'm sure they look great mate!

Chris :)

[Ryan21]

They do look well, Doing a Golf tonight and have new batts for the camera, ill post up tomorrow.

[Chris]

Good idea mate! :y: