MK5 Golf GTI

General => Detailing => Topic started by: edd30 on May 07, 2015, 09:52:03 pm

Title: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: edd30 on May 07, 2015, 09:52:03 pm: 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!
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: stealthwolf on May 07, 2015, 10:01:44 pm: 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.
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: dansmith180 on May 07, 2015, 10:37:41 pm: '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?
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: edd30 on May 07, 2015, 11:32:07 pm: 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.
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: Phil_H on May 12, 2015, 10:25:41 pm: 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.
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: Phil_H on May 12, 2015, 10:29:16 pm: Also know a guy who works with my mates that does it along with his day job.

Search "Mirror image bespoke detailing" (Kings Lynn) on google for prices etc..
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: NICK_CARTER_ on July 23, 2015, 11:26:53 pm: Quote from: Phil_H on May 12, 2015, 10:25:41 pm
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. Phil - where is your mate based?

Sounds like the 'job on the side' is a good shout for this if you're on a budget.
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: Matthewsimone on July 28, 2015, 09:18:16 pm: Yep friend of a friend did minor correction detail on my Gti last year to remove light swirls and finished off with a layer of race glaze wax for me
Took him about 4 hours and charged me £70
All depends how much work is needed, mine was preety good to start with!
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: AMV on August 08, 2015, 04:46:46 pm: I've seen people charging a base of £350 in london, bit sleep for me.
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: Deako on August 10, 2015, 03:45:30 pm: I do a hatch for £150 in Redditch, in my unit. Check out ReddiWraps on FB. Did my Edition 30 yesterday.
Title: Re: How much would you expect to pay for a machine polish and waxing ?
Post by: Leonpettit on August 10, 2015, 10:54:14 pm: What do you do for that @deako?

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