An interior detail covers every surface inside the car: a full vacuum including under the seats and in the seat rails, the carpets and mats, all plastic and vinyl, the dash, console, door cards, cupholders and vents, the glass, and leather cleaned and conditioned where the car has it. It finishes with a deodorize.
What it does not automatically include is anything that needs a machine and a lot of extra time — hot-water extraction of the carpets, seats pulled out, embedded pet hair, or an ozone-grade odor treatment. Those are priced separately because they can double the length of the appointment.
SF City Wash interior details start at $229 for a sedan, $250 for a midsize SUV and $300 for a large SUV or truck. We are fully mobile, so all of this happens wherever the car is already parked.
This is the standard scope. It does not change by neighborhood, by how nice the car is, or by who is watching.
The order matters more than most people expect. We work top-down and dry-to-wet, because doing it the other way round means the dust you knock off the headliner lands on carpets you already cleaned.
Seats, seat backs, the seams between cushions, under the seats, the seat rails, the carpets, the mats separately, the boot or cargo area, and the spare-wheel well if it opens. The rails and the gap between seat and center console are where the actual volume of debris lives, and they are the first thing skipped on a fifteen-minute wash-and-vac.
Dash, instrument binnacle, center console, gear surround, door cards, door jambs, sills, grab handles, steering wheel, stalks, and the pillars. Vents get compressed air and a detailing brush rather than a wipe, because a wipe just packs the dust further in.
Screens and gloss-black trim get a dedicated microfibre and a light touch. Gloss piano-black is the single easiest surface in a modern car to scratch, and it scratches from dry wiping.
All of it, inside, including the top edge of the windscreen where the film builds up worst and the rear glass on hatchbacks. Streak-free glass is one of the two things people notice within ten seconds of getting back in, the other being smell.
Leather is cleaned with a pH-appropriate cleaner and then conditioned. Cloth gets an interior cleaner worked in and lifted; this is a surface clean rather than a full extraction, which is a separate service.
If your car has perforated leather, tell us. Perforated seats hold liquid in the holes and need a different, drier method than solid leather.
Mats back in, everything reset the way you left it, and a deodorize. Then a walkthrough with you before we pack up, or a set of photos texted over if you handed us a key and went to work.
Three sizes, three prices. Nothing here changes based on how dirty the car is — heavy buildup is handled with add-ons, not a surprise markup.
| Service | Sedan / coupe | Midsize SUV | Large SUV / truck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interior Detail | $229 | $250 | $300 |
| Full Package (interior + exterior) | $279 | $300 | $350 |
| Exterior Wash & Protection | $100 | $125 | $150 |
These are San Francisco and northern-Peninsula prices with no travel fee. Marin, the southern Peninsula and the East Bay carry a travel fee — the pricing guide has the zone breakdown.
None of these are upsells invented at the curb. They are separate because each one adds real time, real equipment, or both, and pricing them into every job would mean charging every customer for work most of them do not need.
Hot water and solution injected into the carpet and pulled straight back out, which is the only method that actually removes what is in the fibres rather than moving it around.
Capped at $125 on a sedan or midsize and $175 on a large vehicle, so a whole-floor job never runs away.
Same process on upholstery. This is the one for a spilled coffee, a car-seat that leaked, or years of gradual gray.
Same $125 / $175 caps.
$75 on a sedan, $100 on a midsize or large vehicle. Hair that has worked its way into the weave does not vacuum out; it has to be raked, lifted and re-vacuumed, and on a heavy car that is an hour on its own.
There is a whole guide on pet hair if that is your situation.
A treatment that targets the source rather than covering it. Flat rate at any vehicle size.
Worth knowing: if the smell comes from something still wet under a carpet, the treatment alone will not hold. See the odor guide.
Beyond the clean-and-condition in the base detail: a protective layer that slows dye transfer and UV fade.
$25 on a sedan or midsize, $45 on a large vehicle.
A protective dressing on plastics and vinyl that holds off the fade you get from a car parked in the sun.
$35 sedan, $50 midsize, $60 large.
A standard interior detail runs 2 to 2.5 hours. Larger vehicles, or cars with heavy buildup, run closer to 3. A full package with the exterior as well is 3.5 to 5 hours on a standard car and 5 to 6 on a full-size SUV, truck or van.
Add-ons stack on top of that. Extraction needs drying time as well as working time, so a heavily extracted interior on a cold, damp SF day is a longer appointment than the same job in July.
You get the window before we start, not after. And you do not need to be there for any of it — most customers hand over a key or a gate code and get on with the day. We text on arrival, text if anything comes up, and text when it is done.
If the outside is fine and the inside is the problem, book the interior on its own. If both need attention, the Full Package is $50 more than the interior alone on a sedan, which is less than booking the exterior separately.
There is a guide that walks through how to choose between the three.
More short answers live on the FAQ.
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