How far in advance should I schedule an appointment?
Usually an appointment should be made 3-5 days in advance to allow proper time for your detail to be executed properly. Although we may be able to fit you in on short notice.

What do I need to provide?
An address where the detail will be preformed, and a key to the vehicle. We have all necessary materials for detailing, products, equipment, electric, and water!

What forms of payment do you except?
We except cash, master card, visa and american express.

What's the minimum purchase required?
If you live within 30 minutes of Palm Harbor the minimum purchase is $30, if you are outside of that 30 minute radius a minimum purchase of $60 dollars is required. We do travel long distances if the work to be done is adequate.

What areas do you service?
We service all areas within a 30 minute drive from Palm Harbor.
New Port Richey, Trinity, Tarpon Springs, Anclote, Ozona, Crystal Beach, Palm Harbor, Oldsmar, Safety Harbor, Dunedin, Clearwater, Clearwater Beach, Bellair, Bellair Beach, Indian Rocks Beach,Largo, Pinellas Park, St. Pete, all other areas are serviced based upon your purchase amount.

What kind of insurance do you carry?
In the event that the unthinkable happens, First Class detailing carries General Liability Insurance that covers us up to $1,000,000 per occurrence. This covers us on automobiles, watercrafts, working trucks, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, and trailers.

How can I get a discount?
For every person you refer to us you will receive a FREE SPRAY WAX with the purchase of any detail package. If you want us to come out to your place of employment, for every $100 you make for us; by talking to your coworkers you can receive $20 off every time. Also after every 10 details purchased you will receive $20 off.

Detailing:
The correct and safe way of properly cleaning, conditioning, and protecting all vehicle surfaces.

Wax:
A protective coating that prohibits U.V. rays from fading the color of your paint that's good for 6 months, this is applied by machine or hand. Wax does not correct imperfections, but does help to cover them up.

Carnuaba Wax:
A protective coating that prohibits U.V. rays from fading the color of your paint that's good for 6 months, this adds more shine than regular waxes due to its higher content of carnuaba, this is also applied by machine or hand.

Synthetic sealant:
A protective coating that prohibits U.V. rays from fading the color of your paint that's good for 10 months, this is applied by machine or hand.

Polish:
A coating that brings the shine and luster back to your paint, this is also applied by hand or machine but provides no protection for your paint. Polish will yield a small amount of correction of imperfections located in the paint. We recommend following this step with a coat of wax.

Compound:
A product that removes a very minute layer of clear coat on your paint, to remove surface imperfections, such as oxidation, minor scratches, water spots, sanding marks, and swirl marks. This will leave behind buffer trails, we recommend to follow this step with a coat of polish to correct this problem.

Wet Sanding:
A labor intensive process to remove serious imperfections in the clear coat of your paint such as orange peel, deeper scratches, heavy oxidation, water etchings, bird dropping etchings, and scuff marks. This includes sanding, compounding, polishing, and waxing.

Clay bar:
A process of hydro planning a block of clay across the surface to remove environmental fallout that bonds to your paint such as tree sap mist, bugs, light water spots, tar, over spray, rail dust this process leaves the finish absolutely smooth to the touch and removes previously applied polishes and waxes. It is recommended to follow this step with polish and wax.

Paint Correction:
A process of clay baring, wet sanding, compounding, polishing, and waxing to achieve the perfect level of shine, clarity, and protection of paint. This yields about a 90% correction rate on most cars, and can save you from spending a few $1,000 on a new paint job. Biweekly or monthly maintenance is recommended after this process.

Head Light Correction:
A process of wet sanding, compounding, polishing, and waxing headlights to remove oxidation, and road grime, located on the outer surface of plastic headlights. This can save you $100's on replacing old headlights, drastically improves night time visibility, and gives your car a much better overall look.

Wheel Polishing:
A process of using wheel cleaner, metal polish, and wax to remove all brake dust and minor imperfections on wheels.

Chrome Polishing:
A process of using metal polish and wax to remove water spots and other debris from chrome trim, and exhaust pipes. This can remove exhaust buildup on all tail pipes.

Window polishing:
A process of using compounds and or cerum oxide to to remove hard water spots from all windows. This improves visibility in direct sunlight reducing glare, and driving in rainy conditions.

Engine Steam Cleaning:
The process of using de greasers, cleaners, and steam cleaning to remove all the grime buildup left in the engine bay. This can be followed with dressing, to give it that brand new look at no extra cost.

Exterior Vinyl Conditioning:
Plastic trim, windshield wipers, fenders, front and rear bumpers can fade quickly in Florida heat. This process conditions them to keep them looking new at all times.

Body Shop and Dealership Clean Up:
After repainting from body shops, there sometimes can be buffing and sanding marks left behind as well as over spray. We can come out and give a free estimate as to how much it will cost to bring your car back to new. Also many brand new cars these days somehow leave the dealership with many buffer trails, as dealerships sell less cars they cut employees and hire less expensive ones with less experience. There business is to SELL cars, not DETAIL them. Free estimates are always given upon request.

Interior Steam Cleaning:
The process of using cleaners and steam cleaning to remove stains and scuffs from your interior surfaces. Most stains can be removed, except for light color carpets not all can be removed.

Carpet Re-dying:
Steam cleaning may not remove all stains, at this point it is up to you to decide whether or not you want to re-dye your carpets or floor mats. These colors are O.E.M matched and are specific to your make.