{"id":41238,"date":"2026-07-05T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/?p=41238"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:33:48","slug":"brand-new-cars-and-avoiding-the-dealership-prep-and-cheap-detailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/brand-new-cars-and-avoiding-the-dealership-prep-and-cheap-detailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand New Cars And Avoiding The Dealership Prep And Cheap Detailers"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘My car is brand new.’\u00a0 As detailing professionals we have heard this fairy tail many times.\u00a0 Whether the consumer cares about much of the damage that is already done to that allegedly new car is a different story.\u00a0 But I would like to share my experiences traveling across the state of Florida, visiting dealerships.\u00a0 I was not surprised by the poor condition of the vehicles, even display models.\u00a0 But what was noteworthy was the care of the vehicles has gotten worse over the past decade.<\/p>\n

Here are some pictures of cars that were mostly 2026 to 2024 models.<\/p>\n

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You might consider taking the dealership on its offer to detail the vehicle for you.\u00a0 ‘Oh I can get it done at the dealership and they can condense the 16 hours of work with a superior product to 10 minutes with minimum wage employees who likely know nothing about detailing.\u00a0 Below is just basic wash prep leaving a car the is damaged from wheel acid, aside from the obvious swirls seen by the sunlight rays.<\/p>\n

This is not the only incident I have heard of, similar to above.\u00a0 Near identical looking damage on the lower panel areas where there was apparent staining from wheel acid.\u00a0 Cheap washes from detailers can cause these problems just as easily.<\/p>\n

Recently there have been more unfortunate stories about consumers choosing the wrong detailer.\u00a0 It often started with minimum research, and a promise to do more for much less than the other detailer.\u00a0 Aside from the poor looking work, there was damaged done and film or ceramic coating that needs to be replaced.\u00a0 Customer comes back to pay hundreds of dollars more than the originally (too high) quote for a worse result than originally promised without a guarantee a reputable detailer can fix the damage done by the other detailer who mentioned a price the customer wanted to hear.\u00a0 I learned a very long time ago the importance of not letting anyone touch your car.\u00a0 Be careful and educate yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘My car is brand new.’\u00a0 As detailing professionals we have heard this fairy tail many times.\u00a0 Whether the consumer cares about much of the damage that is already done to that allegedly new car is a different story.\u00a0 But I would like to share my experiences traveling across the state of Florida, visiting dealerships.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":49370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[4153,4154,514],"class_list":["post-41238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-imperfection-removal","tag-dealership-ceramic","tag-dealership-protection-option","tag-new-car"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brand-New-Cars-And-Avoiding-The-Dealership-Prep-And-Cheap-Detailers.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kPO7-aJ8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41238"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49371,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238\/revisions\/49371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}