What a $800 Professional Car Detail looks like

We hired a mobile deatiling professional with all his tools ,soaps, and know-how to detail half or our E36 BMW while our Host Zach Jobe details the other half with off-the-shelf soaps, polishes, and tools. will both sides of our car look shiny and clean? or will it look like a two face car when Zach is done?

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[njhgv]

6:00 I love how yall 3d scanned everything to make it a little bit goofy! Yall made my day!

[FlexSZN]

Detailing your own car is also very therapeutic and calming. Also the feeling of knowing you cleaned it yourself is amazing

[Kagome]

6:06 the amount of detail- time creating Lidar scans of 3D objects and animating them is very gladly appreciated! Even though the quality is low-grade, the effort of trying is awesome! Whomever was on the editing team or graphical team, 🧠GGGREAT JOB!

[DetailGroove]

The production on these videos are so crazy good😅

[alexarango]

Can we talk about this god tier video editing? The amount of detail is INSANE

[mbettt]

Definitely like this Professional Vs DIY series becuase it goes for anything whether a person has the tools and time to do it or lives in an aapartment where DIY projects are not allowed.

[taventski]

Definitely worth the DIY. The first might not be perfect, but you get better along the way. I was quoted about $2000 for some deep scratch 4 step paint correction detailing. I spent $1200 on tools and chemicals and still have em all and getting around to details 5&6 it doesn’t take as long. First took me a weekend working 12-16 hours each day to do inside and out. But it’s worth doing and having everything to do it again and again

[isbahmasood]

As a detailer myself, I have to say you did an awesome job. And to be honest, I feel like it has alot to do with how motivated and how much of a passion one has for the vehicle they are working on really.

[az_kgt]

as an actual detailer. It matters more your skill set than your equipment. Plenty of "pros" with best of the best equipment that can't out do another "pro" with a cheap polisher and just a couple bottles and rags and a vacuum cleaner.

[ginv]

Your production effort really shows in this - having a jingle made for Tony, 3D-scanning the actualy products you are using to fix up the car yourselfs etc...
All nice details which really improve the quality of your Videos.

Kepp up the good job, you are great!

[chadwilkinson]

I worked at a stealership (used cars) as a detailer and I must say having the right compounds and decent equipment is certainly a major help, but the most important thing I found was definitely having a good ergonomic set up with plenty of room to move. Final pro tip always do the buffing and waxing inside or later in the evening whenever possible, baked on compound is a pig to work with. Great video!

[TCL_Dasler]

This series is truly amazing. Splitting the car in half gives a real apples to apples comparison, and cuts out the "yeah but" and "what if"s. Very very useful and fun videos dude.

[mcmaschio]

I have had expensive details and cheap ones and sometimes the cheap were better .. at the end i think it comes down to who is doing it … personally i love detailing my vehicles so wholesome .. but sometimes not possible 🔥💯

[hyde_official]

what I love about these new series of DIY vs Pro is that Zach (or the donut team) is selecting younger entrepreneur to work with him which also promoting their business 😊. If I were in the area, I would use their services.

[koribrock]

Coming from a detail shop manager and professional detailer for over 10 years i appreciate Donut media for breaking down why things need to be done a certain way regardless of pro or diy. The necessity for polishing and sealing after a clay bar is far too overlooked so props to you guys for your knowledge and solid content!

[DamianPoplawski]

5:36 Which Home Depot charged you $30 for two buckets? Haha, they're like $5 a piece.

[Wakabatan]

Man I didn't expect you guys would go with the detailing diy vid, exactly what I wanted to know!

Learned how to detail from detailing youtubers since covid happened, since I rarely need to go out now there's more time to me to take care of my car

[horNNN_]

I'm no professional detailer, but i always find it therapeutic. It feels good to see results, and nothing feels better than sitting in and driving your car post DIY detail. <3

[nuxxiz]

A lot of people forget how time consuming this work is. Consider tony's side. That was only half of the car. If he were to do the entire car, it would've been about 7 hours and 26 minutes, just for exterior wash and paint correction. And most places include interior clean as well. Which can take anywhere from 2 hours to 5 hours depending on the condition(s).

Most detailer shops ran by bigger corporations are given roughly 2.5 to 4.5 hours, i myself work as a detailer and only have 4.5 hours to do an entire interior, exterior and pinpoint detail. (Where pinpoint detail being to fix extra marked issues, paint touchup, wiper replacement etc etc).

You did a great job, Tony did a great job. Well done!

[joshparks]

This video was awesome! I do all of my detailing myself, actually just did my Mazdaspeed3 3 days ago and spent 12 hours, just on the outside. Did the wash, clay, compound, polish and wax. The before and after results were absolutely amazing too! And it took you 6 hours for half the car so yeah that’s right at the same time it would’ve taken you to do the whole car. Definite body pains but it’s soooo worth it when you see the end results!