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As per the title, flogging my car, which could do with a once over prior to advertising. Anyone care to make a recommendation - seems to be quite a few from a cursory Google?
If you can't find a mobile one, head up to the car wash place next to the pub up on the A38. They may not speak much English, but they do a fantastic inside/outside clean for £14. I will be going there when I sell my car, they are that good.
£14 ?!?!? - you've sold me. Which bit of the A38/which pub?
Ta.
Go up towards the airport with the Crem on your right, then go straight over at the roundabout. The pub is called The King's Head IIRC. The car wash is just after the pub, where the double glazing place used to be - on the left hand side of the road.
OK - know where you are talking about. Thanks 🙂
No worries - I hope they are up to your required standards!
I'll take note of that too - pass it almost every day!
Required standard is simply 'clean and tidy'/save me a couple of hours of cleaning/hoovering/polishing....
The above notwithstanding, any mobile recommendations? - would obviously be easier if they came and did it at work (if the price is right 😉
Dunno but I reckon you would be looking at 30 quid minimum for a mobile one.
'....you would be looking at 30 quid minimum for a mobile one.
Lowest I've got so far is 50 for the basic inside-and-out job, hence £14 is appealing.... but I could also do with having the seats cleaned (not just hoovered) as well.
When I used to make money (sigh) I used to get my car fully valeted every 3 months or so, £70 is the best I could get including seat cleaning.
Yeah, most places are quoting £5 a seat, on top of the basic, so £70 sounds about right.
Car has a second hand value of ~£3500, give or take. I need to sell it ASAP to make way for a new one, so will £70 a) repay itself in the resale value, compared to a DIY clean, b) simply mean it looks more presentable so sells faster or c) a bit of both?
Depends how dirty it is really... If it's bad a professional clean will make a huge difference. If not, then less so.
It's actually pretty tidy on the outside (or, more accurately, scrubs up easily as I clean/polish it fairly regularly)...... it's the inside that's the real issue - a couple of years of young children/bikes/trips to the tip/DIY have not been kind. Nothing a good clean won't cure, but it scares me just thinking about tackling it! 😉