Detailing a Semi

[Skywitit23]

Hey fellas, I just finished doing a semi here are the steps i took.

1) Washed
2) Clay bared entire Truck includding door jams
3) Color-X certain Spots
4) Polished all Chrome, Gas Tanks,Stack,Tool box,Muffler Shield.
5) Waxed Entire vehilce NXT 2.0
6) Clean Interior, washed all windows, vacuumed.
7) QD

All this done by hand took me 17.30 hours to complete what should i be charging to do this cause i am still undecided? i dont wanna say a crazy number where he just looks at me lol, but it did take alot of time.

[Evan.J]

Re: Detailing a Semi

well i would say $250+ thats alot of time and a HUGE truck

[Jokeman]

Re: Detailing a Semi

I was thinking around 350. Thats about 20/hr.

[Skywitit23]

Re: Detailing a Semi

I was Gonna say 400.00 even, cause i gotta travel about an hour to get there, gas, food and ETC...How about if i had to buff a semi if i had too. what would be the going rate? So both rate as for non buff and buff? Just so i know when the time comes i know what to say.

[jmitch8011]

Re: Detailing a Semi

Hey fellas, I just finished doing a semi here are the steps i took.

1) Washed
2) Clay bared entire Truck includding door jams
3) Color-X certain Spots
4) Polished all Chrome, Gas Tanks,Stack,Tool box,Muffler Shield.
5) Waxed Entire vehilce NXT 2.0
6) Clean Interior, washed all windows, vacuumed.
7) QD

All this done by hand took me 17.30 hours to complete what should i be charging to do this cause i am still undecided? i dont wanna say a crazy number where he just looks at me lol, but it did take alot of time.

yeah and #2 would have alone drove the price up. If you do a ruff number say $25 an hour as i have seen on here it would 425. If you dropped it to $20 it would 340 and $15 would be 255. I was told that Quality is better than Quantity and also your time is valuable. I would say if you did great about 425and justify it by products used and time. However, the main selling point on any detail is the end result.

I did my own little clean up thing some years back when I was much younger. No research and doing details for 4 to 6 hours for 35 to 55 dollars. So please speak your price with confidence. - hope that helps.

[Mr Mustang]

Re: Detailing a Semi

I'd say 400-450 should be good. Semi's ae huge,and therefore take multitudes of time. I'm sure it looks great now, and the driver should realize how much work it took.