Ok so looking for a day spa for my baby! I want her pampered! Washed, clayed, waxed, vacuumed! I would like a professional job or some one on here that really know what there doing. Wet sanding to get rid of some swirls... Im in Fayetteville. Anybody or any places people reccomend?

 

Andy down here in the Upstate does detailing. Idk if he travels to do it, but I'm sure he'll chime in.

 

if you can bring the car to me in myrtle beach i have detailed 8 s2k's worked for BMW/mercedes of conway for 5 months and have been a professional detailer for 3 years. i know its a haul but i will make your car as close to perfect as i can for the best prices in the area.

 

Just had Andy Thomason detail my car in Greenville. It was *AMAZING* I highly recommend his services. They'll even take the seats out to vaccuum and clean the engine. He is also extremely reasonable on price.

I'm sure he'll post here when he sees the thread.

 

krshultz details in raleigh.

 

I have seen some of Karl's (krshultz) work and can vouch for him as well. He is very meticulous to say the least.

Kevin

 

Ha so many options so far away lol... My only concern with driving out some far is the wear on the job from the drive. I dont want to wast the money...

Do these people Wetsand? Anyone?

 

Actually not sure. I've done a fair bit of wetsanding from my body shop days...and to be honest I'd be a little nervous about anyone doing that except a quality body shop...unless someone around here has several ppl to vouch for them (that have actually had that person wet sand for them)

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For that matter...what do you need wetsanding for? Did you have a part repainted and now you have a bunch of orange peel?

 

Jimboner, you mentioned, in your original post, "wet sanding to remove swirls." If we're just talking about swirls - even really severe ones - wet sanding shouldn't be necessary. Wet sanding is best left for severe - I'm talking seriously severe, like a car that's been keyed - defects.

I'm not sure anyone saw it at the October meet, but my car (Silverstone AP2 with gunmetal wheels, loud exhaust, tint, otherwise stock) had some nasty, deep scratches on the lower lip of the front bumper. I'd screwed up and bumped into a parking lot stone in the dark not long before the meet. Anyway, those are the sort of severe defects I'm talking about needing wet sanding. Which I did, and the defects are now gone.

So, anyway, yes, I can wet sand, but I don't do it on customer vehicles. I tend to be pretty conservative, and wet sanding is, to me, too risky. It removes a LOT of paint. To be honest, I only did my front bumper because I figured it was toast anyway, so why not. I don't have the luxury of taking an "it's toast anyway" approach to vehicles that don't belong to me.

Anyway, I'm notorious for not doing a good job of taking photos when I work on customer cars. I'm nearly always on a tight schedule, and photos are the first thing to get thrown overboard. But, if you'd like to see some sample work, here's an extensive thread describing the work I did to resurrect the paint on my Ford F250. As you can see, it was in pretty awful shape, and yet I did the whole truck without any wet sanding.

 

I remember that thread on the F250, looked awesome.

Like someone else said, lots of available options throughout the Carolinas lol! That's a good thing though!