Detailing

Newspaper profiles female detailer

CHESAPEAKE CITY, MD ― Someone can bring me the dirtiest car ever, I don't mind, says Cindy Biggs of Carpenters Auto Repair and Detailing.

By PCD Staff
May 21, 2013

CHESAPEAKE CITY, MD ― Detailer Cindy Biggs of Carpenters Auto Repair and Detailing was recently profiled in the Cecil Daily newspaper.

She answered a series of questions, which included: What's the best part of the job? Biggs's answer was: The outcome. Someone can bring me the dirtiest car ever, I don't mind. That is what I am here for: to see what the product looks like when I get it done and see it look so nice.

Biggs has been detailing cars for 22 years. She said the job requires a lot of trial and error. "It's a lot of testing products and finding things that work. There is not just one thing I use on a vehicle," she said in the story.

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Today’s new bays

Rise and shine with today’s IBA and self-serve formats.

By Rich DiPaolo
March 29, 2021

According to research compiled by International Carwash Association (ICA), bay wash formats — in-bay automatics (IBA) and self-serves — consist of approximately 72% of all retail carwash locations in the U.S. That share of the pie is even higher in Europe and Australia — where IBAs and self-serve locations comprise 88% and 97% of total locations respectively, notes ICA. But, while these formats aren’t new, what’s happening in and around these bays is changing with the times.