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How much would you charge? - 03-19-2007, 02:04 PM

A friend of ours wants me to wax his tow rig, it's a newer Kenworth/P-Built (one of those) with what I believe is a 35 ft trailer. It's white with a red stripe across the bottom, it's in good condition but it has some streaks running down the side he wants off and a good coat of wax. Roof needs a good washing too, but that's it...I've never detailed a semi before, just washed them. Since it's white I figure I could hit it with a cleaner polish to remove the streaks, and for some decent protection a coat of Meguiars #20 via orbital waxer. Besides the paint I'll be doing the basics like tire dressing, clean windows/wheels, clean chrome, things like that. I feel I'm being a bit cheap with myself here but I'm going to quote him at least $380+. The old owner took relatively good care of it, it just needs some basic TLC, and it was washed about 2 weeks ago and only gets driven to the race track on Saturday's, it's not a disgusting, bug crusted daily driven rig. So what do you guys think, sound like a fair price?


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Re: How much would you charge? - 03-20-2007, 06:40 AM

I would think $500 would be more what you should charge, trailers are very deciving.
   
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Re: How much would you charge? - 03-20-2007, 08:02 AM

Based on your description of the vehicles and presuming you don't have to polish any aluminum $450 minimum. The Tractor will be the hard part. It's smart to wash the roof on that trailer, that's where the dirt is, and it shouldn't take much more than 2 hours to do that trailer. A little tip: If you get tired of hand wiping your polish off of the trailer you can pressure wash it off. Put a 25 degree tip on and follow the line from top to bottom. Works like a charm.
   
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