Automotive Detailing in Detail: A Guide to Enhancing, Renovating and Maintaining Your Vehicle’s Appearance

‘Automotive Detailing in Detail’ takes the combined experience and expertise of three leading detailing commentators to provide a thorough and expansive overview of automotive detailing techniques. From the pre-wash, wash and preparation stages, through machine polishing to paint protection and maintenance, every detailing stage is covered: surface types, contaminants and products are analysed, before the actual processes are laid bare. In the age of the internet and social media, a plethora of detailing knowledge is available online, yet it is strangely difficult to discover completely, or harness usefully. This book redresses the balance.
Topics covered include: . Setting up . Exterior surfaces and paintwork . Wheels and tyres . Underbody and engine bay . Interior surfaces . Detailing as a profession AUTHOR: Dom Colbeck is one of the founders of Dodo Juice, a manufacturer of hand-made car-care products. He has also regularly held training and tuition days, for both amateur and professional detailers. Jon Steele has undertaken extensive details on supercars as part of an exclusive detailing team. David McLean was an early pioneer of internet forum detailing guides, and has written tens of thousands of words of advice.

SELLING POINTS: . This new book should help tackle the confusion that arises from conflicting advice and half-informed internet assistance. . Sets out the fundamentals principles of ‘good detailing’. . Aimed at motoring enthusiasts, car mechanics, restorers, valets and those thinking of setting up a valeting/car detailing business. 268 colour and 36 line artworks