Customer No. 1 : Silver BMW 3 Series E46

It's a funny thing how he became my 1st customer. First, we have never met face to face ( well, face to face as in really sitting down and talking lah ), and he trusts me so much that he left me with his car for two days!

When I received the car ( it was at night ), I thought it'll be an easy job. Nope! As I walking around the car to thoroughly inspect the bodywork, I was in a shock! There was millions, yes, millions of baked tar all over the lower parts of the car! And a few scratches, especially on the front bonnet and the rear bumper was visible as well.

One of the affected areas, you can see just how much baked tar is there.

So I proceed with washing, drying and claying the car. Boy, I had to throw away a piece of the detailing clay after claying the lower parts of the car, as it was full of baked tars! It took me not only a piece of clay, but almost a bottle of tar remover and about 2 hours++ just to remove all the baked tars around the E46.

The clay just after doing one half of the lower parts of the E46. Scary eh?

The same place after I was done claying and with the help of tar remover. Much better eh?

Finally, after I am satisfied with the tar removal work, I proceeded to trying to reduce the visible scratches around the car, and then continued to cleaning up the paint with a dedicated paint cleaner, polish and followed with 2 layers of the infamous Meguiar's NXT Paste Wax, with about 4 hours between each layer. The interior was vacuumed, and the wheels and tyres was cleaned up, waxed and tyre shine applied to it. Total hours spent on his car : close to 8 hours.

And the final result. Can you see the reflection on the right hand side of the car? How is the glow of the silver E46? And I do all this, by hand!

Introduction Of Me and My Services

Hello!

Let me introduce myself. I am A Yasir, 29, and I'm here to promote my 2nd most favourite pastime : detailing cars and bikes.

A few years back, I really don't know much about detailing. Heck, I didn't even know how to wash my car properly and safely too! After saving money for one whole year and selling off all my bikes ( I had a few! ), I bought myself a JDM Honda Civic EG3, which was already converted to EG6 specifications.

At 1st, I simply let the car wash boys wash my car. Yeah, it does look nice and clean afterwards, but I still can physically feels bumps and pits on the bodywork. I ask myself, why is this happening? So, one day, I went over to Ace Hardware Taman Melawati, and as I was browsing around the car detailing racks, I saw the a lot of brands, like Turtle Wax, Soft 99, Featherlite, Meguiar's et cetera. I simply picked up a wash solution and polish ( and no, I don't want to print the brand name ) and went home.

After a few months of washing the car myself and using the polish I bought at Ace Hardware Taman Melawati, I still find my car's finish lacking. And a few days later, one Mat Salleh guy who's a regular customer at my old man's petrol station, saw me polishing up my car. He chatted up with me, asking what stuffs I was using on the car et cetera. So I told him that I was not satisfied with the results that I get, and he told me to try Meguiar's instead. He also pointed out what products to buy also. So, with a new shopping list in hand, I went back to Ace Hardware Taman Melawati and spend about almost RM 200 that evening.

Armed with my new Meguiar's stuffs, I went ahead and did my car. Well, the car looks a little bit better now, but the results is still not up to what I want to achieve. Then I take a look at the label and saw the brand's website. Lo and behold, after a few months learning from the brand's forum and also having the chance the learn from a few persons whom I would rate as "sifu" in the field of car detailing, I have now managed to improve my work.

And this is where I am now....

It all started when a fellow club member that I joined was complaining about the quality of paintwork on her brand new car. I suggested her some steps that can be done to improve the look of her car, and she asked me whether I can do that for her car, and I said : Yes!

So a couple of weeks later, she arrived with her car at my place. She was right : the car looks horrendous! She told me how these holograms and defects was " installed " onto the car's bodywork : done by those so - called " professionals " at a particular service centre. I took some time what I can do, and what to expect, and she agreed.

After spending hours on her car, the end result was up to what I had promised, and she very happy with the result as well. And I have also told her to hang on, as I am currently slowly upgrading my stuffs, and later, I will try to reduce or completely remove those holograms at a later date. From here on, she spread the words of my work to other club members, and they pestered me to do their cars as well. A part -time car detailer I am now!

If you are interested, please do e - mail me at ace9977 at gmaildotcom. Please do explain the type of car ( so I can work out the size of the car ), colour, how long is the AGE of the paintwork, current paintwork quality ( cobwebs, scratches, bird droppings et cetera ) as well. Please understand that at the moment, I am only able to detail cars on Sundays, and that it will take a minimum of 4 - 5 hours ( hatchback cars ) up to 8 hours, or even more than that! I also prefer my customers to keep to a monthly regime with me as well, so that the work I have done on the car is maintained properly by me.

I do this, because I enjoy the work, I love transforming sad - looking cars to almost super - nice looking cars, no more, no less.