Classic Car Detailing - Intro and Cleaning Tips

Welcome to Car Detailing from Skill Shack with Practical Classics. In this course, we'll cover how to wash your car correctly, deep cleaning and perfect wheels, how to machine polish like a professional, and how to protect your paint. Hello, my name is Danny Hopkins and I'm editor of Practical Classics. This is another course in Skill Shack with Practical Classics, and we're here again in the Practical Classics workshop to learn all about the art of detailing. I've got with me Burt Yule and Rich March, who are both members of the Professional Valeters and Detailers Association, so there's two guys here super-qualified to teach you all about detailing, but I wanna know one thing first before we start, and that is, what does detailing mean?

What is detailing, Burt? Well, detailing is a term we've stolen from the Americans, and it in America means anything to do with washing your car. So you get automatic car washes that claim to be detailing centers, right the way up to proper detailers, in our terms, into sort of machine polishing and paint correction. As it's come over here, we have kind of adopted it as our own and sort of changed the etymology of it slightly and it's now all about the higher end of car preparation. So it's machine polishing to correct paint, it's repairing leather, it's doing all sorts of ancillary services to essentially make your car better than you.

Really, okay, well there's lots to it, I know that much. If you look at the titles that you've got on the menu, click on the class that you want. You'll see Rich in action. He's been a personal detailer for over 12 years now, so there's nobody better qualified to teach you all about this, so go to the titles and click on the class you want.