Full Interior & Exterior Detail

Package

Sudz Up VIP Clean

Cars

$200

SUVs & trucks

$250

Typical time

Most of a day

Why order is the whole job

Almost anyone can clean a car. The difference between a detail and a long wash is sequence, and sequence is the thing that cannot be rushed or reordered without losing the result.

We work outside-in and dry-to-wet. The exterior gets decontaminated first, because that work throws fallout and because the wheels and arches are the dirtiest thing on the vehicle and you do not want that migrating inward. Then the interior gets dry work — compressed air, brushes, vacuum — before any moisture is introduced. Then wet interior work. Then glass, last, because glass shows every mistake made before it.

Get that order wrong and you produce a car that looks worse than one cleaned carelessly. Shampoo the carpet before dusting the dash and you settle dust onto a damp surface. Do the glass early and you finish the job by breathing on it and smearing it. The sequence is not a preference, it is the difference between the work holding and not.

What a full day actually buys you

The honest reason this service costs more than the sum of its parts is time, and specifically uninterrupted time on one vehicle. We do not run three cars in parallel and rotate between them.

That matters because most of the value in detailing is in dwell time and in the second pass. Chemicals need to sit. Carpet needs to be extracted, allowed to release, and extracted again. Panels need to be assessed after they are clean, which is the only point at which you can actually see what is wrong with them. None of that survives a schedule that has another car waiting.

It also means we find things. A full day on a vehicle turns up the water ingress under a mat, the seat rail that has never been cleaned, the door seal that has torn. We tell you about all of it, including the parts we cannot fix.

The exterior half

The exterior side is a full decontamination rather than a wash: wheels and arches first, a proper two-bucket hand wash, chemical iron removal, a clay stage to pull bonded contamination out of the clear coat, and then protection.

The clay stage is the one people have never had done and cannot un-feel afterwards. Run your hand over your bonnet through a plastic bag. That grit is embedded contamination, and no amount of washing removes it. It is also what makes paint feel rough and look flat even when it is clean. The full explanation of that process lives on the exterior detailing page.

What this service does not include is machine polishing to remove swirls and scratches. That is paint correction, it is a separate discipline, and it takes considerably longer than a day on its own. We will tell you honestly whether your paint would benefit.

The interior half

Everything from our interior service is included, with the extra time a full day allows. Seats move fully fore and aft so the rails and the carpet beneath get done. Mats come out and get treated separately from the carpet they were covering, which is almost always the dirtier of the two.

Compressed air comes before the vacuum, not after. A vacuum nozzle cannot generate airflow inside a three-millimetre gap, so seat seams, belt buckle recesses, console gaps and vents get blown out first and then collected.

Hard surfaces get cleaned and then treated to a matte finish rather than a gloss. A shiny dash reflects into the windscreen and is genuinely distracting when the sun is low, which on a Wisconsin winter afternoon is most of the drive home.

Who this is actually for

Three situations make the full detail obviously worth it rather than a nice-to-have.

Selling or trading a vehicle. It is the cheapest thing you can do to a car before photographs, and it changes what a buyer believes about how the car was maintained. Sequence it a day or two before the listing goes live rather than two weeks ahead.

Coming out of a Wisconsin winter. Five months of brine, interior moisture and salt in the carpet backing is exactly what a full reset is for, and April is when doing it actually holds.

And buying a used car. You do not know who was in it or what they did in it. One full detail at the start gives you a known baseline and, frankly, makes it feel like yours.