Good car cleaners in the newcastle area

[pbirkett]

My car is in need of a damn good clean, its a bit swirly and has some minor scratches on.

I dont really feel up for paying the £300ish that full-on detailers would charge, but am willing to pay a bit to get it looking a bit more presentable - besides it would never stay clean for long in my hands.

I dont really have the facilities to clean my car where I live now, and dont have any car cleaning accessories (usually just take the car to a handwashing place) so DIY is out... and besides, I am a lazy bugger

So any suggestions?

[Gad-Westy]

Paul,

There is a guy that comes to our office on Team Valley a lot. A few of my colleagues have used him and are very impressed. He was going to wash, machine polish and wax my whole car for £25 (not a typo!) but somebody pulled out in front of me the other day and it now needs a new front clam so I've kind of saved him a job!

Will dig out the number if you're interested.

Edited by Gad-Westy on Monday 21st September 17:05

[pbirkett]

Aye that sounds good mate, let me know

Sorry to hear about the car, hope its not too expensive.

Edited by pbirkett on Monday 21st September 21:06

[PeteG]

PM on its way...

[cableguy]

Try www.bespokeautodetailing.co.uk I highly recommend them.

C.

[SeanyD]

Gad-Westy said:

somebody pulled out in front of me the other day and it now needs a new front clam

Thats a bummer, hope you get sorted soon, insurance claim against them??

[Gad-Westy]

SeanyD said:

Gad-Westy said:

somebody pulled out in front of me the other day and it now needs a new front clam

Thats a bummer, hope you get sorted soon, insurance claim against them??

Cheers Sean. Its going through Europa after numerous recommendations on here. I can't envisage any dispute of blame as its a fairly textbook accident. Frustrating though!

Paul, The guy I mentioned is:

Dave Young of Karshine
07866 532 040

Hope that helps.

[SHutchinson]

Mike at The polishing company in Cramlington is very good. http://www.thepolishingcompany.com/

He does the full £300 jobs but is also more than happy to do a quick detail.

I got my GSI machine polished by him.

[ol]

Paul - I thought you were skint mate!?!

Here's an alternative; spend £5 on a bottle of T-cut, come to my house and you can use the pressure washer, hoover etc and I've even got some rags you can use to polish it. That way you get a nice blast out along the military road, and save yourself some money too.

[pbirkett]

ol said:

Paul - I thought you were skint mate!?!

Here's an alternative; spend £5 on a bottle of T-cut, come to my house and you can use the pressure washer, hoover etc and I've even got some rags you can use to polish it. That way you get a nice blast out along the military road, and save yourself some money too.

I am, yes

I think I just want the car to look nice... but then again am not prepared to spend loads doing it... but I always thought that T-Cut stuff wasnt up to much... maybe I aint using it right.

[ol]

pbirkett said:

ol said:

Paul - I thought you were skint mate!?!

Here's an alternative; spend £5 on a bottle of T-cut, come to my house and you can use the pressure washer, hoover etc and I've even got some rags you can use to polish it. That way you get a nice blast out along the military road, and save yourself some money too.

I am, yes

I think I just want the car to look nice... but then again am not prepared to spend loads doing it... but I always thought that T-Cut stuff wasnt up to much... maybe I aint using it right.

The more elbow greece you use the better it looks with T-Cut. I sware by it, it can do wonders if you out the effort in. The offer's still there anyhow!

[SophieS]

My sister had her car done by Paul at Wonder Detail (www.wonderdetail.co.uk) and was over the moon with it. If you just want a tidy up he won't charge anywhere near £300. His van is awesome too! lol.

[Jamz]

Gad-Westy said:

Paul,

There is a guy that comes to our office on Team Valley a lot. A few of my colleagues have used him and are very impressed. He was going to wash, machine polish and wax my whole car for £25 (not a typo!) but somebody pulled out in front of me the other day and it now needs a new front clam so I've kind of saved him a job!

Will dig out the number if you're interested.

Edited by Gad-Westy on Monday 21st September 17:05

Cant be doing a very good job at that price... before i even machine polish my car, it needs wash and clay which will take about 2ish hours, and machine polishing the whole car takes a good 3 hours.

[Gad-Westy]

Jamz said:

Gad-Westy said:

Paul,

There is a guy that comes to our office on Team Valley a lot. A few of my colleagues have used him and are very impressed. He was going to wash, machine polish and wax my whole car for £25 (not a typo!) but somebody pulled out in front of me the other day and it now needs a new front clam so I've kind of saved him a job!

Will dig out the number if you're interested.

Edited by Gad-Westy on Monday 21st September 17:05

Cant be doing a very good job at that price... before i even machine polish my car, it needs wash and clay which will take about 2ish hours, and machine polishing the whole car takes a good 3 hours.

I think this was an introductory price to lure in new customers. Generally speaking a wash and wax seems to come in at around £20 for a small car using Dodo Juice wax.

[pbirkett]

Well now that my car is off to a bodyshop after being crashed into, I'm guessing it will probably (hopefully) come back better than ever

[Gad-Westy]

pbirkett said:

Well now that my car is off to a bodyshop after being crashed into, I'm guessing it will probably (hopefully) come back better than ever

lol Snap!

Hope you get it sorted Paul. Mine is in next week.

[pbirkett]

Well body shop has rang me and asked me to take it in to "see if its fixable".

So... I'm guessing they think (and I guess they've had a description of the damage from the ins. company) that it might not be economical to repair.

So... £4k for the car 3 months ago, well over £1k spent on it so far, and I'm now facing the possibility of it being written off possibly? Surely not? Nightmare if so.

[ad111s]

pbirkett said:

Well body shop has rang me and asked me to take it in to "see if its fixable".

So... I'm guessing they think (and I guess they've had a description of the damage from the ins. company) that it might not be economical to repair.

So... £4k for the car 3 months ago, well over £1k spent on it so far, and I'm now facing the possibility of it being written off possibly? Surely not? Nightmare if so.

Fingers crossed for you

[PeteG]

ad111s said:

pbirkett said:

Well body shop has rang me and asked me to take it in to "see if its fixable".

So... I'm guessing they think (and I guess they've had a description of the damage from the ins. company) that it might not be economical to repair.

So... £4k for the car 3 months ago, well over £1k spent on it so far, and I'm now facing the possibility of it being written off possibly? Surely not? Nightmare if so.

Fingers crossed for you

Mine too.

[Gad-Westy]

pbirkett said:

Well body shop has rang me and asked me to take it in to "see if its fixable".

So... I'm guessing they think (and I guess they've had a description of the damage from the ins. company) that it might not be economical to repair.

So... £4k for the car 3 months ago, well over £1k spent on it so far, and I'm now facing the possibility of it being written off possibly? Surely not? Nightmare if so.

Hopefully it'll not come to a write off but at least if it did, you could buy it back, get it cobbled back in to shape and pocket a handsome amount of change.#

Fingers crossed for you as well.