Detailing Guides for San Francisco Drivers | SF City Wash

SF City Wash

Detailing guides for San Francisco

Long answers to the questions we get asked on the phone, written by the people who do the work.

3 guides published Written from our own price list and our own jobs

About these guides

Written by the crew that shows up

What they are

Answers that do not fit in a text message. What a detail costs here, how a mobile job actually runs at your curb or in your garage, and what paint protection does once it is on the car.

Who writes them

We do. SF City Wash is a fully mobile operation with no shop. We bring our own water and power to every job. The guides come out of the work we run and the price list we already publish.

How we handle facts

If we cannot back a number up, it does not go in. No borrowed statistics, no lab claims we did not run, no numbers pulled off another detailer's site. Where we do not know, we say so.

Published

Three guides so far

We would rather publish three that are worth reading than twenty that repeat each other. More are on the way, and the coverage list further down says plainly which ones are not written yet.

Pricing & Booking

What car detailing actually costs in San Francisco

Our whole price list in one place, with the reasoning behind it. The three core packages by vehicle size, the add-ons, the travel fee by zone, and why two cars that look identical sometimes get different quotes.

Read the pricing guide

Inside

Interior, full, and exterior prices by vehicle size
Add-on prices, including the decon bundle discount
Travel fees by zone, with worked examples
Why ceramic coating and paint correction are quoted instead of listed

Miscellaneous

Mobile detailing or a detail shop, and how to decide

What actually changes when the detailer comes to you instead of you dropping the car off. Access, water and power, timing, weather, and an honest list of the things the mobile format does not solve.

Read the mobile guide

Inside

Street spots, residential garages, apartment lots, office structures
Why we carry our own water and power
Whether you need to be home while we work
What rain does to the schedule, and what mobile cannot fix

Ceramic Coating

Ceramic coating, sealant, or wax, and what each one does

Three products, three time horizons, three prices. How long each layer really lasts on a car parked outside here, what it costs to start, and the parts of the sales pitch that are not true.

Read the protection guide

Inside

Real durability, including why spray sealant lasts 2 to 3 months and not 6
How each product attaches to the paint
What a ceramic coating does not do
Living with a coated car, and the cure timeline

Coverage

What this hub covers, and what it does not yet

Seven categories. Three have a guide. The other four are empty, and we would rather say that than put up a page with nothing behind it. Nothing in this list links anywhere until the guide is actually written.

Ceramic Coating

1 guide

Coating, sealant, and wax compared, with real durability and starting prices.

Paint Correction

Not written yet

Planned. How much of a scratch actually comes out, and the point where correction stops.

Interior

Not written yet

Planned. Stains, odor, and what a deep interior clean can and cannot reverse.

Exterior

Not written yet

Planned. Water spots, tree sap, and paint transfer from tight street parking.

Pricing & Booking

1 guide

What a detail costs here by vehicle size, plus add-ons and travel fees.

Car Care

Not written yet

Planned. What to do between details so the last one holds up longer.

Miscellaneous

1 guide

Anything that does not sit under one service. Right now that is the mobile format itself.

Already on the site

If your question is not covered yet, start here

Most of what people ask us is answered somewhere on the site already. These are the pages worth reading while the rest of the guides get written.

Services and prices

How we work

Proof

Faster to just ask us.

Send a few photos of your car and we will tell you what it needs and what it costs. We are mobile, we bring water and power, and we work daily from 8am to 7pm.

Book Now Request a Quote

(415) 360-1964 [email protected]

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SF City Wash

Detailing guides for San Francisco

Long answers to the questions we get asked on the phone, written by the people who do the work.

3 guides published Written from our own price list and our own jobs

About these guides

Written by the crew that shows up

What they are

Answers that do not fit in a text message. What a detail costs here, how a mobile job actually runs at your curb or in your garage, and what paint protection does once it is on the car.

Who writes them

We do. SF City Wash is a fully mobile operation with no shop. We bring our own water and power to every job. The guides come out of the work we run and the price list we already publish.

How we handle facts

If we cannot back a number up, it does not go in. No borrowed statistics, no lab claims we did not run, no numbers pulled off another detailer's site. Where we do not know, we say so.

Published

Three guides so far

We would rather publish three that are worth reading than twenty that repeat each other. More are on the way, and the coverage list further down says plainly which ones are not written yet.

Pricing & Booking

What car detailing actually costs in San Francisco

Our whole price list in one place, with the reasoning behind it. The three core packages by vehicle size, the add-ons, the travel fee by zone, and why two cars that look identical sometimes get different quotes.

Read the pricing guide

Inside

Interior, full, and exterior prices by vehicle size
Add-on prices, including the decon bundle discount
Travel fees by zone, with worked examples
Why ceramic coating and paint correction are quoted instead of listed

Miscellaneous

Mobile detailing or a detail shop, and how to decide

What actually changes when the detailer comes to you instead of you dropping the car off. Access, water and power, timing, weather, and an honest list of the things the mobile format does not solve.

Read the mobile guide

Inside

Street spots, residential garages, apartment lots, office structures
Why we carry our own water and power
Whether you need to be home while we work
What rain does to the schedule, and what mobile cannot fix

Ceramic Coating

Ceramic coating, sealant, or wax, and what each one does

Three products, three time horizons, three prices. How long each layer really lasts on a car parked outside here, what it costs to start, and the parts of the sales pitch that are not true.

Read the protection guide

Inside

Real durability, including why spray sealant lasts 2 to 3 months and not 6
How each product attaches to the paint
What a ceramic coating does not do
Living with a coated car, and the cure timeline

Coverage

What this hub covers, and what it does not yet

Seven categories. Three have a guide. The other four are empty, and we would rather say that than put up a page with nothing behind it. Nothing in this list links anywhere until the guide is actually written.

Ceramic Coating

1 guide

Coating, sealant, and wax compared, with real durability and starting prices.

Paint Correction

Not written yet

Planned. How much of a scratch actually comes out, and the point where correction stops.

Interior

Not written yet

Planned. Stains, odor, and what a deep interior clean can and cannot reverse.

Exterior

Not written yet

Planned. Water spots, tree sap, and paint transfer from tight street parking.

Pricing & Booking

1 guide

What a detail costs here by vehicle size, plus add-ons and travel fees.

Car Care

Not written yet

Planned. What to do between details so the last one holds up longer.

Miscellaneous

1 guide

Anything that does not sit under one service. Right now that is the mobile format itself.

Already on the site

If your question is not covered yet, start here

Most of what people ask us is answered somewhere on the site already. These are the pages worth reading while the rest of the guides get written.

Services and prices

How we work

Proof

Faster to just ask us.

Send a few photos of your car and we will tell you what it needs and what it costs. We are mobile, we bring water and power, and we work daily from 8am to 7pm.

Book Now Request a Quote

(415) 360-1964 [email protected]