How Detailing Can Boost Your Charger or Challengers Resale Value

There’s no escaping the fact that your car is a depreciating asset. The moment you drove it off the lot after purchase, it likely lost around 20 percent of its value. As soon as you’ve signed on the line, and started the engines up, it’s officially in the “pre-owned” category.

Knowing this fact, many drivers don’t put a lot of time or effort into retaining resale value, believing it to be a pointless endeavor. It seems that these auto owners are unaware of the power of regular car detailing. The deep-cleaning and restorative powers of a detailing are not be underestimated. They can even go so far as to slow the depreciation of your asset, giving you a huge advantage when the times comes to sell the car on.

How does detailing do this?

“I wash my car every week, why doesn’t it retain value that way?” This is a fair question, but the answer is that washing is merely removal of outside dirt and dust. It’s a surface job. Detailing gets to the very core of the impurities and contaminants that attach themselves to your car on a regular basis.

The key word is “restoration.” What elements of your car does the detailing restore?

• Paintwork, color, shine/gloss and that showroom shimmer that is so alluring
• Every exterior and interior surface washed, buffed, waxed and coated
• Interior upholstery and carpeting restored to cleanliness and freshness
• Engine bay and undercarriage restored to “factory-level” cleanliness

These are the key areas of wear that make a pre-owned car so obviously used, even to the untrained eye. Detailing can restore a car to the point where the only evidence of use is the number on the car’s odometer.

Keeping up with detailing

Maintaining a strong resale value is not the result of any one-off activity. You’ll need to keep up a regular detailing schedule in order for the biggest benefits to come your way. On average, a detailing will cost you, $100, but if you include things like ceramic coatings, then the effects can last for months without needing another session.

Another problem for some is the time and know-how for detailing. It seems so time-consuming and the work done to such a professional standard that we worry about doing it ourselves. The fact is that you needn’t take hours out of your day to go to a detailer, or even do the work yourself. Thanks to the rise of mobile detailing services, you can have this amazing process carried out at your home or office while you relax!