# detailing section? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 25, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/detailing-section/266877 "2013-04-25T12:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/detailing-section/266877/17 "2013-04-25T21:34:29Z")
> [@Maybe being a comic book geek isn't so bad after all...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/maybe-being-a-comic-book-geek-isnt-so-bad-after-all/52491/13): > > because the snow has to come off and a shovel is the best option i have a tool that i use when i detail my car. i use a grouting sponge with sand paper taped on one side of it to remove the caked on dirt. before you do that just run it through a hoffmans car wash, but it has to be the ones where they use the brushes and cloth on your car as you go through. after that get them to dry it with dirty terry cloth towels. then use the sand papered sponge and give it another good wash. you can dry it or not, then just slap a bunch of wax on it in the middle of the hot sun…you should be pretty much good to go after that It’s not THAT bad. Is it better to do it at home yourself if you have time and the materials/knowledge? Sure. I used to take 6-7 hours on saturdays to detail my Maxima and initially my M35. Now, I just don’t have the time for it. I have unlimited and go to the one near 155 on Central. Do I have swirls in my paint from the cloth? Sure. But, I’d likely get them over time washing the car at home myself. My paint is still smooth as glass and when clean isn’t that noticeable unless you know what you’re looking at. I don’t let them wax my car (as you said, it doesn’t go on even, etc.) or do anything else to it and they have not inflicted any other damage except for the below: The only thing they have done wrong to my car is tear not one but both of my front mats to \*\*\*\*. Meaning, the little metal ring in the floor mat that goes over the hook. Tore them both clean out. Other than that, I have no issues with Hoffman and go through there 3 times a week. My $0.02. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/detailing-section/266877)._