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Has anyone tried Eco Detail (Silver Lake, CA)

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by dctalk523, May 6, 2011.

  1. dctalk523

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    Wondering if anyone has tried Eco Detail in Silver Lake, Ca? Thoughts? Comments? Thanks in advance.
     
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    Looks like the reviews are generally very favorable.
     
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    "Southern California brings me down."
     
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    I've read through the reviews and as someone who is a professional detailer himself, I would be leery for three reasons:

    1. The whole idea of a "waterless wash". My experience tells me there is no safe way to wash a car without water. You can use little water, such as when you use a product like Optimum's No Rinse...but you need water to be able to emulsify and float away dirt without scratching.

    2. Its cheap. Detailing is hard work, and the overhead to buy the proper equipment and products is not cheap, and the time it takes to develop good skills is not short. Basically, he's offering a $40 yelp deal for 3 hours work, and Yelp is probably taking half of that, so he's working for three hours for $20, before expenses. When I detailed professionally I charged...and got paid all day long for more like $50-60 an hour. However...I knew what I was doing. This is just a glorified carwash, not really a detail.

    3. I'm automatically suspicious of anything that advertises itself as "green".

    So, I would not patronize this establishment. You want a detailer who advertises the quality of his or her work...not the cheap price or "green" nature.
     
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    I do have to say though...all the reviews are good...my concern though is that every customer seems to be one of these "Yelp, Groupon, LivingSocial" type customers and where are their expectations set when they get there?

    I do not know...I'd want to see him in action before I let him work on my cars...
     
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    ;)thank you for thanking the time to talk about Eco Detail!!we are professionals that have passion about cars,the earth and customers .our
     
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    Any more questions,please call us 310/579/1332
    Thank you!!
     
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    I love when businesses jump in this forum and participate. Really makes us customers feel taken care of. :thumb:
     
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    They didn't address any of my concerns though, did they?
     
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    please check out our website wwwautoecodetail.com
    and please continue to read our yelp reviews!!!
    every single person that gets there car detail gets 100% attention (groupon,living social or regular paying clients)
    thank you!!:welcome:
     
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    I will try you guys, I work around the corner.
     
  13. SW03ES

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    Still didn't address any of my concerns...

    Very easy concerns to address too...why don't you take some time to discuss your practices and procedures on here?

    Unimpressed.
     
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    Yeh, sure, I'm going to let someone who doesn't know the difference between 'their' and 'there' have at the finish of my $30,000 automobile.

    And three exclamation points, too!!!

    Phlueeze.