Big Bert's Thread [ARCHIVED]

***tsikot*** · October 10th, 2003 10:57 PM

Big Bert's Professional Detailers
"Where Every Car is a Potential Show Car!

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Post inquiries or questions about our services and products here in this thread.

Likewise, watch this space for our future promos!

Where we are:
Our address is at Unit 1 Robbinsdale Bldg. #14 Araneta Avenue Cor. Palanza St. Quezon City Philippines
Tel No: (632) 415-0979

**theveed** · October 20th, 2003 10:16 AM

Big Bert's Professional Detailers Year-Round Offer!

(Note: Offers may not be combined with other existing promos, discounts or offers)

** Coding Day Promo! **

Within a week, there will be one day wherein are cars are banned from the roads on certain hours, this is the dreaded "coding day" where our cars are not usable.

Why not use this day to take care of your precious automobile? Big Bert's Professional Detailers now has a year-long program to serve you better.

Bring your car to our shop on it's "coding day" and instantly avail a 20% discount (cash basis only) on any major detailing services such as exterior paint detail, glass polishing, interior detail and engine detail.

** Weekday Black and White Special **

Until December 2003, bring your black or white car on a WEEKDAY for a Paint Protection Program Value Package and avail an instant 20% discount (cash basis only) for your service.

The Paint Protection Value package includes the following: Wash with premium shampoo, vacuum, tar removal, light overspray removal, clay detailing, paint polishing, light degriming of emblems and moldings, tire and molding dressing, paint polishing and compounding (if necessary), acrylic paint pre-sealer, acrylic paint sealant, a trial packet of Big Bert's Professional Shampoo and a maintenance journal.

call us for more information at 415-09-79. ** Weekday Black and White Special **

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**theveed** · October 24th, 2003 01:14 PM

Exterior:

The exterior of a car involves everything OUTSIDE the shell of the car, mainly paint. Like anything else, you can either restore a surface or maintain a surface in detailing.

By restoring, you're trying to rejuvenate the paint back to its original lustre and gloss. You do this through polishing. Polishing is a process of removing light scratches, taking out dried up paint (paint that will not help maintaining your existing "good" paint).

Use the philosophy of your skin. When it gets dried and chapped, you have to exfoliate to reveal the fresh skin, then you protect it with lotion. The lotion is like the wax that we use on the paint. If your skin is chapped and dry underneath, using lotion directly will only HIDE the defect until the lotion wears out. Same thing with wax, if you just wax an oxidized, dirty or swirled surface, you're only doing a temporary fix that'll make it SEEM shiny. You could've just sprayed oil or something to get the same effect. Or have you seen your car when it's wet? Looks great, until you dry it off.

Polishing will provide the great looking paint surface your after then we protect it through waxing or sealing.

Some of you might ask "is the the so-called 3-step detailing"?

Honestly, most paint does not need to be compounded. With the right combination of technique, pad and product, you can polish a surface very close to the result of a compounded surface. If you compound the paint, you'll lose a considerable amount of clearcoat (the top layer of most factory paint), this layer of clearcoat is responsible for UV blocking and the gloss of the car in general.

In Big Bert's Professional Detailers, we compound panels only as necessary, and if it's just a small portion we compound that portion only. Why lose the paint of the whole car just because you have a 6" scratch? Doesn't make sense. You waste paint, you waste money (you have to compensate for our labor hehe), you waste time and effort as well.

Next issue is sealants and waxes, what are the differences and what do you need to know?

First of all, both products are meant to do ONE thing...

Provide a sacrificial layer for the paint so that the contaminants and damages will hit the protective layer first before reaching the paint.

The other benefits such as gloss, beading/sheeting, depth, slickness, etc are consequential bonuses.

So what's the difference between the two? Mainly durability. Waxes are made of oils and waxes, ingredients that does a good job in protecting the paint but falls short due to its inability to bond with the surface and easily affected by heat. Waxes melt at a much lower heat range than a polymer sealant. A sealant is fully synthetic, bonds with the surface therefore can last 4-8x longer than a good wax. Still, different products will offer different protection, but even the worse sealants will last as long as a good wax in most cases.

Much like synthetic oils last longer than mineral.

So you ask, "If sealants are superior, why are waxes still around?" Simple, there is no such thing as a perfect product. With every plus, there's an equal negative for it. Sealants are generally expensive, difficult to apply correctly, takes a long time to properly cure, highlights imperfections, and veers away from the traditional show-car, wet-look of waxes that we've grown to accept as "great looking" paint.

Although sealants are superior in durability, not all consumers are after durability. Some people (like myself), waxes/seals our cars at least once a week, so durability wax never an issue for me unless it's the typhoon season or something. I prefer the deep look of a wax over the high gloss of a sealant, but that's just me. I'm sure that there's only a handful of people that waxes their car 1-2x a week or more. So for most people, a sealant is a great sacrifice.

If you never find waxing a tedious job, then by all means, stick with it. But if it is, a sealant will allow you to enjoy your car's shine for a long time without fuzzing too much about it.

We at Big Bert's Professional Detailers offer both waxes and sealants by different manufacturers. We will honor your request if you choose a particular brand, but we will also give you advice on what looks good on what. Some waxes or sealants look great on certain colors and crappy on others.

We'll talk about Interior and Engine next time...

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**theveed** · October 27th, 2003 11:16 AM

We also sell the following:

Big Bert's Professional Shampoo (300ml and 500ml)

Big Bert's Liquid Shine Spray On Wax

and a single kit of Zaino Polish System (ZFX, Z2, Applicator and Z2)

**jtdc** · November 17th, 2003 01:11 PM

Sir do you sell the cleanser you apply to remove vinyl stains last time on my ride? I'd like to buy one when I take my car again to you for wash sealing and wash, i like sealants better since i don't wax often.

**theveed** · November 19th, 2003 11:40 AM

JTDC: Sure, we do sell repackaged all purpose vinyl cleaners...

**theveed** · November 28th, 2003 08:27 PM

Big Bert's Professional Detailers also sells the following products.

Big Bert's Professional Citrus Shampoo - P400/gal P80/500ml P60/30ml
Big Bert's Professional Liquid Shine Cleaner Wax - P350/Medium Bottle (16oz), P450/Large Bottle (20oz)
Eagle One Carnauba Cleaner Wax (Paste) Retail Package- P450
Eagle One Wax As-U-Dry Retail Package- P250
Eagle One One Step Leather Cleaner and Conditioner Retail Package- P400/Bottle
Eagle One Spray and Shine Quick Detailer (Repacked) - P250/Bottle (350ml)
Eagle One Glass Cleaner Concentrate (Repacked)- Good for 3 Liter Diluted! - P250/Bottle (350ml)
Klasse AIO and SG (90ml each) - Package Kit Good for 10-15 applications.- P800/Kit
Zaino Kit - Contains 1 Bottle of New Formula Z2 Show Car Polish, 1 Bottle of New Formula Z5 Swirl Filling Polish, 1 ZFX Accelerator Kit, 1 Terry Applicator - P3,500
Blue Coral All Purpose Cleaner and Degreaser - P120/Bottle
100% Imported Cotton terry Towels - P30/piece

**theveed** · December 8th, 2003 12:50 PM

Just for the month of December...

Big Bert's Holiday Spirit Offer...

Flat rate for FULL details starting December 1 to 30...

All passenger cars (up to 2.3 liters) full detail (Interior, Exterior and Engine Detail) gets a flat rate of P3,000 only!!! (Regular Price - 3700 up)

All AUV/Large cars full detail gets a flat rate of P3,500 only!!! (Regular Price - 4,500 up)

And Large SUVs and Vans full detail gets a flat rate of P4,000 only!!! (Regular Price - 5,000 up)

These include a full interior detail job of shampooing and extraction of fabrics, leather conditioning, dash and siding cleaning; exterior detail includes wash, clay, tar removal, paint polishing (and compounding if necessary), polymer paint sealant; lastly a full engine detail.

Shop around for prices and compare our service and product list, you won't find anything better! You'll practically be getting at least one major service for free!

Offer good until Dec 30, 2003 only.

Offer may not be combined with our existing 20% discount on weekday black and white and coding discounts.

**sequoia** · December 27th, 2003 02:02 AM

theveed, kung pwede sana pwede sa promo yung interior & exterior detail lang P2,000. kasi may paayos pa ako sa makina madudumihan din eh. kung pwede lang naman. yung 1k pampapagawa ko eh. kung ok pa sked ako sa monday dec 29. morning. thank you.