A white sedan, freshly detailed, its paint holding a clean reflection.

Your car, the way it looked the day you got it.

Mobile detailing across DFW

Know what your car needs

A wash, a correction and a coating each do a different job. Here’s what each one gets you, so you can pick with your own eyes rather than take my word for it.

A wash

Takes dirt off the surface. It doesn’t change what’s underneath — you’re just looking at clean paint instead of dirty paint. Inside, the same idea: vacuumed, surfaces wiped down, leather cleaned and conditioned.

Paint correction

Machine-polishing the clear coat to remove swirls and light scratches instead of hiding them. It takes off a fraction of the clear coat, so it isn’t a yearly job — but it’s the step that makes paint look deep again.

A ceramic coating

Cures into a hard, slick layer that makes a surface easier to clean and holds its finish for years instead of weeks. It goes on paint, on wheels, and on leather and vinyl inside. On paint it won’t stop a scratch; that’s what paint protection film is for.

An orange sports car parked on a driveway outside a home garage.

How I help

Maybe you wash it yourself, or the dealer handles it, or you’ve been quoted less elsewhere, or nothing yet. Here’s where I pick up in each case.

If you wash it yourself

Keep doing it. Washing keeps a car clean, which is a different job from taking swirls out of the clear coat and putting protection over the top. After that, washing gets easier: dirt lets go instead of gripping.

If your dealer offers it

A dealer’s detail is scheduled around moving cars off a lot. Mine is scheduled around one car.

If you’ve found someone cheaper

You probably have. Ask them what’s included and how long it takes, then compare it to this page. That’s where price differences live, and it’s a fair question to ask me too.

If you’re not doing anything yet

Most people aren’t, and nothing bad happens tomorrow. Paint that’s corrected once and then kept up stays worth more and stays nicer to get into than paint that waits.

Who’s working on your car

I’m Andrew Herman. Twenty years in automotive paint and refinishing, and a former I-CAR Platinum designation, the role-specific training recognition earned by individual collision repair technicians. Your car gets that same standard, mostly in steps you never see.

A higher standard of detail

Twenty years matching factory paint on collision repairs, where a panel that didn’t match came back off the car. Nothing in detailing is that unforgiving, so your car gets more care than the job strictly asks for.

Nothing gets ground into your paint

Brake dust bonds into the clear coat and washing won’t lift it. An iron remover dissolves it and clay pulls out the rest, before any polish touches a panel. Skipped, that grit gets dragged across your paint.

The finish you see is the real one

Polishing leaves oils behind that make paint look corrected when it isn’t. A wipe with 90% alcohol strips them off, so what you inspect is the actual finish, and the coating bonds to paint instead of residue.

Everything up front

Priced by vehicle size. Corrected once, protected, then maintained.

Full detail

The reset, and where everyone starts

Car

$300

2-row SUV, truck

$375

3-row, XL

$450

WHAT’S INCLUDED

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Foam wash by hand — rinse, foam, rinse, foam again, then a microfiber mitt, so the dirt is lifted before anything touches the paint

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Wheels, tires, glass

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Chemical iron decontamination

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Complete vacuum

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Leather cleaned and conditioned

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Vents, seams and crevices

Some cars need more than this package covers. I’ll tell you up front and quote it separately.

Ceramic coating

Detailed, paint corrected and protected

Car

$1,300

2-row SUV, truck

$1,550

3-row, XL

$1,800

WHAT’S INCLUDED

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Everything in the full detail, plus:

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Clay decontamination

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A one-step correction, so swirls and light scratches come out rather than getting filled in

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A wipe-down with 90% IPA, then the coating

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Two days at your place, and a further day indoors before it sees water

Garage access required. A coating has to cure somewhere dry, out of sun, dust and weather.

Maintenance detail

Keeping it where the full detail left it

Within 6 weeks

Car

$200

2-row SUV, truck

$250

3-row, XL

$300

6 weeks to 3 months

Car

$250

2-row SUV, truck

$300

3-row, XL

$350

WHAT’S INCLUDED

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Foam wash by hand, two foam passes before the mitt touches the paint

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Wheels, tires, glass

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Vacuum, surfaces wiped down

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Door jambs

Maintenance starts after a full detail. Past three months it needs the full detail again.

Correction only

For a car you’re selling or handing back

Car

$900

2-row SUV, truck

$1,100

3-row, XL

$1,300

WHAT’S INCLUDED

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Two steps: compound to cut, then back over it to polish

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Iron decontamination, clay, a wipe-down with 90% IPA

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Rinsed and dried

Correction is permanent, but it won’t stop new swirls — if you’re keeping the car, the coating above protects the work.

Add-ons for any package above

ADD-ON

CAR

2-ROW SUV, TRUCK

3-ROW, XL

Shampoo and extraction

Carpets, upholstery, spots and stains

$150

$200

$250

Leather and vinyl coated

Not fabric or aniline leather

$400

$500

$600

Black trim restored

$125

$150

$175

Wheels coated

Set of four

$175

Headlight restoration

Pair

$125

Engine bay

$100

Book a detail

Text with your car and what you’re after, and you’ll get a time and a price.

TEXT (214) 415-3362

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