
Resale
Pre-Sale Detailing
Private buyers and appraisers decide in the first ninety seconds, and they decide with their eyes and their nose. Pre-sale work is not about perfection. It is about removing every reason someone has to negotiate you down.
We prioritize what shows up in a listing photo and what a buyer touches on a test drive: the driver's seat and door card, the steering wheel, the console, the carpets, the glass. Then the paint gets enough correction to photograph honestly. An enhancement polish kills the haze so the color reads true in daylight instead of flat and gray.
Wheels, tires and wheel wells get done properly, because a clean car sitting on dirty wheels reads as a car that was cleaned to be sold. Engine bays get cleaned and dressed conservatively. A bay that looks freshly steam-blasted makes an experienced buyer suspicious rather than impressed.
Tell us your listing date when you book. We schedule pre-sale work close to the photo shoot so the car is at its best when the pictures are taken, not two weeks earlier.
What is included
Every stage, spelled out.
If something on this list does not apply to your vehicle we take it off the quote rather than charge for it.
- 01Full interior reset with extraction on carpets and seating
- 02Exterior decontamination and enhancement polish
- 03Wheels, barrels, tires and wheel wells
- 04Engine bay cleaned and conservatively dressed
- 05Headlight restoration where the lenses need it
- 06Glass inside and out, plus door and trunk jambs
- 07Trim restoration on faded plastics
Where we do this
Pre-Sale Detailing at your address, both sides of the river.
Book it
Get a quote for pre-sale detailing.
Send the vehicle, the city and where it will be parked. We come back with a scope, a price and a window, usually the same working day.
(509) 224-8299Also worth knowing about
Interior Detailing
Hot-water extraction, steam and hand work that pull the cabin back to a condition you can smell as well as see.
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A hand wash built to remove contamination instead of grinding it into the clear coat, plus the wheel work nobody else bothers with.
Read morePaint Correction
Machine polishing that removes defects from the clear coat instead of filling them for six weeks.
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