The Detailing Process

The process section introduces you to some of the techniques we use when detailing your vehicle. Car detailing differs from car valeting in that valeting freshens a vehicle appearance whilst car detailing is about reconditioning every aspect of a vehicles appearance. Some valeters spend less less than an hour on a vehicle whereas we spend many hours, if not days on a car detail in order to achieve the best possible finish. Obviously the more time we're given on your vehicle the closer to perfection we can attain and not all steps in the guide are included in all detailing packages.

Products We Use

Inspired Details isn't tied to any one product supplier and so we aim to choose the best product for each application. As yet we haven't found a single supplier that can provide the best products for all stages of a cars treatment. Neither will we use a product simply because it's expensive and surrounded by marketing hype unless it also improves the end result. Paying over the odds because a product comes in a fancy container means nothing once the product is on your car.

Therefore we use products from a number of suppliers including Chemical Guys, Dodo Juice, Menzerna, Poorboy's World, Swissvax and Zaino. We are also constantly on the lookout for new products to evaluate in the hope we can improve our treatments even further.

Having said that if you would like use to use a specific product on your vehicle then, as long as you don't mind supplying it or paying for it, then that's fine we just need to know in advance.

Finally, we try to use the most environmentally friendly products available, such as bio-degradable and citrus based products, as long as they don't detract from the finished detail.

Pure Water

Normal tap water contains minute solid particulates and dissolved minerals, including sodium, calcium, iron, copper and chloride, which is the cause of the ugly water marks you see on your car. These contaminants are measured as total dissolved solids (TDS) and the closer to 0 parts per million (ppm) the less contaminants the water contains and so, for our purposes, the better it is. Depending on your location tap water will often contain between 250 to 350ppm. We use deionisation filters to remove these contaminants to produce pure water and continually test it to make sure that the TDS remains below 20ppm, although we actually tend to change the filters when the TDS rises above 10ppm.