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How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?

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edd30:
How much would you expect to pay someone for a machine polish and sealant ?
I'm based in Surrey. Have two cars that'll benefit, too lazy to do it myself and too scared of burning through the paint!

stealthwolf:
If you have a DA, it'll be near impossible to burn through and even with a rotary, it'll take a fair bit of effort.

Cost depends on how much work needs doing and what they do. Could easily be £200-300 per car.

dansmith180:
'Machine polishing' is a very general statement. If you just want a basic machining (what I call and enhancement detail) and a wax it would normally cost between £200 - £400 depending on condition and size of the car, an intense polishing (what I call correction detail) and a wax would be between £450 - £700 again depending on condition and size of the car.

What cars are they? What age? What general condition? I've been doing this every day at work for about a year now but haven't really done much private work. I am looking to branch out and start doing it though. It would be a fair bit cheaper than what I posted above and i'm not too far away from you. I've got plenty of pictures of my work of you're intrested?

edd30:
Right - looks like quite an outlay. My Mk5 Golf needs the most attention, 110k miles on the road hasn't done the front end any favours and I reckon the previous owners have been using the supermarket and Albanian car washes.

Need to decide if I have a go at learning it myself or employ the services of Dan. The most I've done in the past is use a clay bar and clay mitt, then Autoglym SRP to fill in the swirls and a little Collinite to make it last longer, but I haven't had the time to do that these days.

Phil_H:
For reference my mate does it on the side...

Wash, Clay, prep, machine polish (not full correction but gets rid of swirls and light marks etc...) for about £120. Take's him about 6/7hrs ish for an average sized car.

So not always the big prices if you can find someone who does it part time.

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