New detailing service

[Chaos]

Maybank are pleased to announce a new affiliation with a local detailer - someone with proven ability and whose references include Mark (Black Sabbath), Dan (Scorcher), myself and now Mudassar (Mud).

Just to give you an idea of what they're capable of, we kept a rough-and-ready log of events over the course of the day that Mud had his car done. To give you a scale of the task, Mud is not world famous for cleaning his car (being the only person in the world less likely than me to pick up a sponge - only at least I pay someone else to do it!) and in the words of Andy when the car turned up "Fuck me that doesn't need a detail, that needs a priest!"...

The beauty in all her glory:

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0135.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0136.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0137.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0138.jpg

The anti-gunk went onto the engine bay early to make sure that it was clean before it was time to start on the outside and close the bonnet.

Some idea of the paint defects that were to be corrected:

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0140.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0145.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0149.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0151.jpg

Some test areas were laid, and before/afters are very easily visible:

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0158.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0159.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0160.jpg

I took a nicely-detailed photo to show Mud's supreme philosophy - if you coat the car in dirt then you don't get any fade from the sun. The boy's a genius, so he is.

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0169.jpg

The main man working his ass off while we drink Coke and discuss the finer points of the female anatomy and the content of this month's skin-mag offerings :rolleyes::

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0171.jpg

I suggested he bring a few mops given the subject matter. Bloody show-off turned up with this:

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0172.jpg

With the last coat on the car drying off and setting, things already looked just a smidge better ;):

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0179.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0184.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0198.jpg

The inside was unrecognisable. They'd even got the stiletto marks off the dashboard and emptied the 489,716 Mars Drink bottles:

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0181.jpg

The great man himself was not amused. He wanted those bottles.

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0200.jpg

:p

The end results were visible at Bimmerflex to those who came, but you can compare the differences yourself...

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0204.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0209.jpg

http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0210.jpg

[Chaos]

As per usual, contact the INFO address for bookings, or myself if you prefer, and we can go through the pricing (which is dependant on car size/condition) with you. Most cars can be done in a full day, and those who know the pain-staking lengths we went to in sourcing a premium bodyshop and have seen the work that's coming out of it will understand both the time we spent setting this up and also the absolutely premium quality that they work to.

In true money-where-the-mouth-is fashion, they've done the two cars that I have up for sale and the vert is booked in for next month prior to Gaydon (so you're welcome to come and see the level of work that they're knocking out in the flesh). :)

[Raj]

Congrats Dan. Nice job he did.

[SpeedTrap]

Looks great Dan - just curious about how long the process takes, and how much does it cost? Thanks. J

[imu]

Excellent results... and what with your customer service, Dan, you can certainly expect my custom as I have been meaning to get the car detailed for a while now... :)

[Black Sabbath]

As Dan said they did my 5 series before the photo shoot last year.They do a fantastic job,as is evident from Muds car :eek: :eek:

[Chaos]

Time-wise Mud's car took 10 hours, from 8 sharp until just before 6. Another hour would have been nice, but time was pressing that day. Generally our preference is to do 3 cars in 4 days, which gives us time on the last day to get every little thing absolutely perfect. I'd rather waste half a day of my time than cram things in and risk missing even the smallest thing when it comes to stuff like this.

Cost-wise, it varies for all sorts of reasons, but an average car like Mud's (7 years old, reasonable nick underneath all the dirt, 3-series size) you'd be looking at a ballpark of £350 give or take a few. That's engine bay, interior, exterior, paint correction and layers of gloss and wax. For yours Jerome, that may go up to £400ish on the size/engine and then maybe down a few quid as it's fairly new so not quite the same mission to get down to a working layer of paint. That kind of thing anyway.

As with all of our stuff, we never promise to be the cheapest or the quickest, we just promise to give you an honest price for a top quality job - which is why we use ourselves for our own cars. ;)

[Aaftab]

I wanted my car detailed but could not justify spending £300 on it so i had a go at detailing myself on the car, spent about 11 hours in total over 2 days! Its very hard to get a good reflective image to show on silver paint but look at the results.

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[Aaftab]

Im NOT offering and detailing services as my arm was ready to be amputated! I leave the detailing services to dan and maybank! I did see muds car at bimmerflex althought it had covered over 200 miles you could really see the true depth of the colour and the work that had gone into the paint.

[M3-AQ]

that was a proper transformation....

what kind of moneys are we looking at for the above service?

[Mud]

The end results were visible at Bimmerflex to those who came, but you can compare the differences yourself...


LOL

I didnt even bother to wash the car for Bimmerflex :rolleyes:

2 days and 250 miles after the job was done, I turned up at BimmerFlex with the car dirty......

[Moe]

Mud i got the crown for turning up with the dirtiest car to a meet

[Saqib]

LOL

I didnt even bother to wash the car for Bimmerflex :rolleyes:

2 days and 250 miles after the job was done, I turned up at BimmerFlex with the car dirty......

lol, I don't know where the hell you must have been driving between maybank and bimmerflex but you car did not look like THAT on sunday!!! :eek:

[Mud]

lol, I don't know where the hell you must have been driving between maybank and bimmerflex but you car did not look like THAT on sunday!!! :eek:

:o

I know you kept telling me!

[Sid]

Looks fab Mud & Dan!!!

[Enforcer]

Not sure the Viper stripes down the middle suit a BMW though.




http://www.superbike.demon.co.uk/Maybank/Detail/0209.jpg

[Chaos]

LOL, yeah we fucked up and striped the windscreen too! :D