The Mobile Auto Detailing Fix Kit
Built for mobile detailers and auto detailing businesses.
If you run a mobile detailing business, the number that matters most usually isn't your job price — it's whether your wash water is actually compliant with federal Clean Water Act rules, since that's a real legal obligation hiding inside an otherwise low-barrier business. This kit finds where the money leaks in your own work and gives you the steps and the words to close each one.
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The 5 leaks it covers
3 you can close it · 2 a pro decides
- Not knowing your own net margin and measuring yourself against an industry averageWhere to look first: Pull your last 3 months: every dollar in, and every business cost (product, fuel, vehicle, insurance, phone, software, equipment payments, helpers).Keep it from coming back: Look at your own net every month. Before you add a new service, check its margin from the first 5 jobs.You can close it
- Pricing jobs off a competitor's list instead of your own time, travel and chemical costWhere to look first: For your next 10 jobs, write down: drive time there and back, time on the car, product used, and the price charged.Keep it from coming back: Quote every new job from a photo and your own average time. Re-check your real hourly every month.You can close it
- Wash water running into storm drains — a fine risk most mobile detailers never checkWhere to look first: On your next three jobs, watch where your rinse water goes: street gutter or storm drain, grass, or a drain that goes to the sewer.Keep it from coming back: Before any new city or county, check its wash water rule. Never rinse toward a storm drain.You can close it
- Working on customer vehicles with no liability coverage, or coverage that excludes themWhere to look first: If you have a policy, find the full policy (not just the card). Look for wording about vehicles in your 'care, custody or control' — that is where many policies exclude the customer's car you are working on.Keep it from coming back: Before-photos on every vehicle. Re-ask the coverage question in writing at every renewal and whenever you add a service like paint correction or ceramic coating.A pro decides
- Self-employment tax not set aside on net income (boundary, not a recoverable leak)Where to look first: Nothing recovers this one — it is a real tax, not missing money. Here is how you stop it surprising you: The tax falls on your net, not on what customers paid you.Keep it from coming back: Log each trip when it happens, not at the end of the day. Move the tax share out of every deposit the day it lands.A pro decides
Free: one full leak from this kit
No sign-up, no email. Here is leak 1 of 5 exactly as it appears in the kit, so you can see what you get before you buy.
Not knowing your own net margin and measuring yourself against an industry average
You can close it- Pull your last 3 months: every dollar in, and every business cost (product, fuel, vehicle, insurance, phone, software, equipment payments, helpers).
- Net = money in minus costs. Margin = net divided by money in. That is your real number.
- Do it separately for each type of job (maintenance wash, full detail, ceramic, fleet) — some types carry the business and some drag it.
- Compare yourself to your own last quarter, not to an industry average. Set your next price and schedule changes from what your own numbers show.
Your part: Decide what to change in your prices and schedule.
Email to my bookkeeper (or note to myself if I keep my own books): Subject: Monthly profit by job type Hi [BOOKKEEPER NAME], Starting this month, can you send me a simple profit-and-loss for [BUSINESS NAME] each month, split by job type: [JOB TYPES]? I want to see money in, costs, and net for each one so I can price from my own numbers. Thanks, [YOUR NAME]
Look at your own net every month. Before you add a new service, check its margin from the first 5 jobs.
What this kit can't decide for you: Recommendations from your own record only.
That's 1 of 5. The other 4 come the same way in the kit: steps, words to send, a habit to keep each one closed.
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What people in this work look up
When mobile auto detailers go looking for answers, they search things like “auto detailing business”, “detailing business”, “detailing packages”, “ceramic coating prices” and “mobile detailing business”. Those searches turn up forms, averages and other people's numbers. This kit starts from your own records instead: the 5 places money leaks in this work, where to look first and the words to send to close each one.
What you get for each leak
- Numbered steps to close each leak
- Your part, spelled out
- Words you can use: letters and scripts, ready to send (fill in the brackets)
- A habit that keeps each leak from coming back
- An honest line on what the kit can't decide for you
A page from the kit
Questions people ask
How much should I charge for car detailing?
Price from your own time, travel and chemical cost, not a competitor's list. The kit walks you through it.
Can wash water from mobile detailing get me fined?
Water running into storm drains is a fine risk most detailers never check. The kit flags it.
Am I covered while working on customer cars?
Many policies exclude customer vehicles. The kit shows what to ask.
What it can't decide for you
This kit works from your own records. It doesn't give legal, tax, licensing or financial advice, and it never tells you what to charge. Where a CPA, attorney, insurer or state board makes the call, the kit says so and gets your records ready for them.
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