Specialty vehicles
Cleaning a motorcycle or UTV safely
A motorcycle has almost no bodywork and almost nothing hidden. Everything you clean is a finished surface or a moving part, which is why the method matters more here than on a car.
Specialty vehicles
Bikes, motorhomes, boats and tractor units. None of them is a large car.
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Everything without four wheels
Motorcycles, side-by-sides, motorhomes, boats and tractor units. None of them is a large car, and none of them is cleaned like one.
Specialty vehicles
What an RV detail has to cover
An RV is a vehicle and a building at the same time. That is why it is priced by the foot, why the roof matters more than the sides, and why black streaks keep coming back.
Specialty vehicles
Boat detailing: oxidation, spots and mildew
Three problems account for most of what a boat detailer is called about. All three are preventable, all three get expensive if they are left, and none of them is fixed the way a car would be.
Specialty vehicles
Semi-truck detailing for owner-operators
A truck out of service is a truck not earning, which makes scheduling the hardest part of the job. Here is what the work involves and how it fits into the hours a truck is actually parked.
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Why these are priced differently
A car can be sorted into a body style and quoted from it, because the variation within a body style is small. Nothing else we detail works that way. An eighteen-foot pontoon and a forty-foot cruiser are both a boat, and they are not the same job by any measure — surface area, access, materials or hours.
So these are measured rather than categorized, and the material matters as much as the size. Gelcoat oxidizes and needs cutting back; automotive clear coat does not behave that way. A motorhome roof is a membrane that a walk can damage. A motorcycle carries bearings and connectors in the open where a pressure washer reaches them. Every one of those is a reason a method that works on a car is the wrong method here.
These pieces cover what each kind of vehicle actually needs, what the common damage is, and how much of it is done by the cleaning rather than by the use.
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