What’s even better than getting a brand new car? Bingo – keeping your current car, and making it look brand new. You can use all the money you save to purchase more of the goods and services you read about in Eden Prairie Lifestyle.
It doesn’t matter if you drive a ‘23 G-Class that only goes to Kowalski’s and Bearpath. It doesn’t matter if you drive a ‘93 Celebrity that contains a wrapper for every fast food item you’ve ever eaten. If it’s on four wheels – or two wheels, because O.C. Detail also does motorcycles – then O.C. Detail can turn it into a righteous beauty.
“I developed some compulsive behaviors around cleaning things in my home during 2015,” said Chris Devore, founder of O.C. Detail. “At the time my marketing career wasn’t going so hot, so I had hours to spend wiping down counters, touching up grout, and throwing out clutter.”
It wasn’t long until Chris’s cleaning started driving his family nuts. He considered stopping, but he didn’t want to. Compulsions are funny that way. He then thought up a far more elegant and remunerative solution: clean things obsessively … for money.
“I already knew my neighbor got his car detailed each year,” said Chris. “I told him this year was special, because he could pay me $180 to do it instead. I invested some of that money in supplies and set right to work cleaning his car inside and out.”
Chris spent hours vacuuming and wiping and brushing and polishing and waxing his neighbor’s car. He didn’t realize he wanted to be a detailer for the rest of his life when he stepped back to appreciate all his hard work. He knew it as soon as he started vacuuming.
“In the marketing world, you can spend over a year working on something to no real effect. Detailing didn’t just exorcize my cleaning demons, and give me an immediate reward for my effort. It also satisfied the people pleaser in me. Seeing my neighbor so happy was just the icing on the cake.”
Thus O.C. Detail was born. Today the business employs multiple people at a dedicated workshop in Eden Prairie, just south of where Valley View Road shoots out from 169. It contains every instrument Chris and his team need to perform miracles of interior detailing, exterior detailing, paint correction and ceramic coating.
“Our biggest interior detailing challenge to date involved a gallon of house paint. That shade of yellow would have looked nice in our client’s kitchen, no doubt about it, but it wasn’t doing much for her car’s backseat as a large, partially hardened blob. It took an experimental combination of hot water extraction and organic cleanser, but we removed all traces of the paint. To say she was pleased is an understatement.
“The worst exterior we’ve detailed so far belonged to a guy who drove too close to an erupting geyser in one of the Dakotas. The minerals in the geyser water etched almost every square inch of his exterior, but our paint correction made his truck look better than factory fresh in no time. There’s a common reaction to our paint correction service: ‘It looks better than new.’ That’s because it is!
“Meteorological events often put our work to the test. We once applied ceramic coating for one of our clients, only for him to get stuck in a hailstorm three weeks later. His insurance company wouldn’t reimburse him for the coating. Even though his car got blasted with 40 to 50 hail dimples, the coating was still perfectly intact. We owe part of that to the quality of our product – the best of the many, many brands I’ve personally tested – but the rest boils down to our expert work.
“It sounds simple, but at the end of the day it’s all about commitment to our customer. We want to fill the streets of Eden Prairie with proud drivers!”
Sterilization. Salt removal. Carpet shampooing. Ozone treatment. The paint correction and ceramic coating your car needs in order to look like a big candy apple. Learn all about them at autodetailingcrew.com.