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avinayyar 07-30-2010 10:21 PM

How To Justify Charging $11,000 For A Single Car Wash
 
This is 30-year-old Gurcharn Sahota. He runs a car washing business out of his parents' garage. Now, before you start laughing and calling him a failure, consider this: He regularly charges up to $11,000 to clean a single car. Here's how.

Sahota specializes in cleaning high-end cars—the kind most of us can only dream of owning—and he does it incredibly well. Sometimes he'll work for up to 250 hours on a single car and use gear such as a kit of 100 cleaning solutions, a microscope, wax priced at over $12,000 per tub, and a special paint gauge to leave cars perfectly spotless.

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Qmx323 07-30-2010 10:26 PM

thats not just a car wash man

its a full paint restoration

Cillu 07-30-2010 10:29 PM

That's extreme.

PiuYi 07-30-2010 10:54 PM

crazy... wonder how much posh u hav to eat to get a free car wash there

nack 07-30-2010 10:58 PM

out of word

ivys2k 07-30-2010 10:59 PM

that 250hrs of labor cost a lot! and i guess if they can afford a 2 mil bugatti then might as well get a 11g car wash. haha

TOPEC 07-30-2010 11:07 PM

he's not the first


JSALES 07-31-2010 02:41 AM

that's crazy

!e.lo_ 07-31-2010 08:19 AM

whoa that depth gauge is 3000 british pounds? I use them at work like, whatevss.

flagella 07-31-2010 02:45 PM

u go out and drive for a couple of minutes, 100 hours of work is gone.

LG Hunter 07-31-2010 03:18 PM

I wonder how often they get these car washes?

FerrariEnzo 07-31-2010 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivys2k (Post 7050203)
that 250hrs of labor cost a lot! and i guess if they can afford a 2 mil bugatti then might as well get a 11g car wash. haha

not just a car wash, FULL detailing and perhaps paint restoring..

orange7 07-31-2010 03:34 PM

I dunno if I would want him to ask me $11 000 after knowing he had given handjobs to all the cars he did.

TRDood 07-31-2010 03:45 PM

$11,000 for 250 hours of work is only $44 an hour.

it's not THAT much money considering you pay more than $100 per hour for technicians to maintain your car.

orange7 07-31-2010 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRDood (Post 7050768)
$11,000 for 250 hours of work is only $44 an hour.

it's not THAT much money considering you pay more than $100 per hour for technicians to maintain your car.

yup.. plus the chemical he uses isn't cheap, and if he lives in Canada he would get taxed like crazy.

Onassis 07-31-2010 05:25 PM

Judging by his accent he's from the UK so I would assume he'd be taxed more than he would here.

FerrariEnzo 07-31-2010 05:50 PM

its more of working on nice cars rather then for the money!

falcon 08-01-2010 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRDood (Post 7050768)
$11,000 for 250 hours of work is only $44 an hour.

it's not THAT much money considering you pay more than $100 per hour for technicians to maintain your car.

You do realize that only $30-$40 of that (and that is even on the high side) actually GOES to the tech? Right?

Mugen EvOlutioN 08-01-2010 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PiuYi (Post 7050196)
crazy... wonder how much posh u hav to eat to get a free car wash there

ur entire life time as well as the next one

shenmecar 08-01-2010 08:42 PM

To repaint a car is like half the cost to hire this guy. Mind you thats gonna be a pretty good paint job too.

phunky.FOB 08-05-2010 03:04 PM

holy crap =\

dark0821 08-05-2010 03:20 PM

lol shit.. i guess you can do it once when you decide to change your car from a street machine to a paper weight in your living room

homey_v 08-08-2010 01:26 PM

you generally want to restore paint rather then doing a full proper paint job imo. removing the glass and all the trim, hours and hours of labor, stripping old paint off, you shouldn't painting over old paint on these types of cars. looks like hes restoring the paint.

A older man that used to work at lordco that i know charges 5k for paint renewal, depending on type of car


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