Most of us are taught from the day that we purchase our first vehicle to check and change our engine oil on time, check our tire pressure and have our vehicle inspected for mechanical issues regularly, but proper vehicle maintenance goes beyond this. Vehicle detailing is a crucial part of proper vehicle maintenance that can be quite easy to overlook. Why is detailing crucial? Here are 5 benefits to incorporating a regular detailing maintenance schedule:
Protecting your investment/ Retain resale value. We love the feeling of picking up a new vehicle from the lot. So much so in fact, that 1.56 million people purchased new vehicles in Canada during 2022. The problem with that feeling is that when it starts to fade, we catch ourselves not caring as much about maintaining the appearance of our once loved vehicle. This slippery slope can gradually affect how you feel when you get into your vehicle, how you treat it and ultimately the value you get out of it when it comes time to move on from it. Detailing refreshes that fuzzy feeling you got when you bought it and keeps the value as high as possible, protecting your investment.
Allergies: Living in the beautiful Okanagan Valley encourages us to get outside in the outdoors, a lot of the time bringing our furry friends with us. Over time, all of the dust, pollen, animal hair, and other outside contaminants begin gathering and securing themselves to the inside of your vehicle. A regular interior detailing can help reduce airborne allergies so you can keep doing the activities that fuel you to live here in the first place.
Spills Happen: How many times have you been just a few minutes late to work and end up spilling your coffee across the console resulting in an annoying sticky mess that seeps its way into all the little cracks? Maybe your lovely kids keep kicking the back of your Tesla's white interior seats? When you live a busy life, these micro stresses can stack up and end up being pushed to the very bottom of the priority list.
Odor: Daily life comes with smells! Lots of them. So when your vehicle is your daily life workhorse, office, or child shuttle those smells start to all melt together toward an undesirable outcome. Sure, Canadian Tire sells air fresheners and your windows do in fact roll down, but those two Band-Aids won't remove bacteria from hard surfaces and upholstery. Interior detailing goes beyond with services like steam cleaning and upholstery shampooing which help remove and kill smell causing bacteria.
Self Cleaning Paint: Brake dust is the contributor to 20% of all airborne particulate matter pollution. Crazy right! Guess where a lot of it is ending up? Embedded in your paint's clear coat. This happens because your paint work is the closest thing next to your wheels and those pesky iron particles love to embed themselves in the soft clearcoat. Once your paint is scattered in these fine particles, it gives a wonderful environment for water to stick to. Insert wet roads with some muddy puddles and your car is looking less than ideal, very quickly. Detailing solves this by decontaminating the paint, removing all the fallout, Iron and tar from the paintwork and applying a slick paint sealant or ceramic coating. Now, when those little iron pieces try to stick to the paint they are met with a hard, sealed coating that makes it difficult for them to latch on to.
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