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Mobile Detailing

Mid-Michigan · Cars, boats & campers · Insured

Mobile detailing.Convenience is key.

Cars, trucks, boats, campers and quads detailed where they sit — at your house, your cottage or your shop, anywhere across mid-Michigan.

5.0
Google rating
19
Google reviews
200+
Jobs since 2025
45min
Travel, no fee
7am
First slot, weekdays

What shows up

Mobile that’s actually mobile.

Plenty of “mobile” detailers still need your hose and your outlet. Mine doesn’t. The truck runs its own water and its own generator, which means I can work at a job site, a boat launch, an office lot or a driveway with the power still off.

It also means booking is simple. There’s no prep on your end and no list of things to have ready.

Carter Record beside his branded truck with the bed open, showing the generator, water containers and detailing products he brings to every job
The whole operation, loaded and ready to travel.
The load-out arrives with every job
Water
Onboard tankNo hose. No spigot. Not on your water bill.
Power
Onboard generatorNothing plugged into your house.
Product
Every chemical, pad and towelFresh towels per vehicle.
From you
A parking spotThat’s the whole list.

What I detail

All rides, one standard.

Most detailers stop at the driveway vehicle. Around here the boat, the camper and the side-by-side need the same attention — and they’re harder to get to a shop than a sedan is.

Year-round

Cars, trucks & SUVs

Full interior and exterior details, paint correction, polish and wax, ceramic coating, headlight restoration.

Spring & fall

Boats

Oxidation removal on chalky gelcoat, hull and topside cleaning, and full interior work on seats and carpet.

Before the trip

Campers & RVs

Wash, decontamination and polish on big exterior panels, plus interior cleaning before or after the season.

After the trail

ATVs & side-by-sides

Mud, dust and trail grime off plastics and frames, then protected so the next wash is easier.

Riding season

Motorcycles

Careful hand work around chrome, paint and hard-to-reach areas — no pressure washer near the bearings.

Anything else

Not on the list?

If it has paint, glass or upholstery, ask. The odd jobs are usually a yes.

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Before & after

The part you actually care about.

Real jobs, my own photos, nothing staged. Same vehicle, same day — just a few hours apart.

Green and white boat on a trailer with dull, chalky, oxidised gel coat before detailing
Before
The same boat after oxidation removal, the green gel coat now deep and glossy
After

Boat — oxidation removal

Michigan sun had chalked the gel coat flat. Machine buffed, polished and sealed, done on the trailer where it sat.

Truck cab interior with the floor caked in dried mud and dirt before an interior detail
Before
The same truck cab after an interior detail, with clean carpet, mats and seats
After

Truck — interior detail

A work truck floor under a season of dried mud. Full vacuum, carpets and mats extracted, every panel cleaned. This is a standard interior detail.

Rear cab of a white crew-cab truck with mud caked across the floor mat, door sill and seat backs
Before
The same rear cab after detailing, with the two-tone leather bench and floor mat cleaned back to new
After

Crew cab rear — interior detail

Mud dragged through the back doors and ground into the mat. Two-tone leather cleaned and conditioned, mats pulled and washed, sills and jambs done properly — those are the bits most people skip.

Black window pillar trim covered in fine swirl marks and haze before paint correction
Before
The same pillar trim after machine polishing, reflecting the workshop like a mirror
After

Gloss black trim — machine polish

Swirls and haze taken out by machine rather than filled in. When the reflection goes sharp instead of soft, that's the difference a polish makes.

The one to ask about

Ceramic coating

A coating is the difference between washing your vehicle and maintaining it. Once the paint is corrected and sealed, dirt lets go easier, water sheets off instead of sitting, and the finish holds its depth through a Michigan winter.

It’s the job I’d rather be doing, and the one worth booking ahead — coatings take longer than a standard detail and need the right conditions.

How much correction goes in first is your choice, not a fixed package — one, two or three stages depending on what the paint actually needs.

  1. Decontaminate

    Wash, then chemically and mechanically pull out what a wash leaves behind.

  2. Correct

    Machine polish to take out swirls and light scratches, because a coating locks in whatever is underneath it. One, two or three stages — your call, and the difference is explained here.

  3. Coat

    Apply, level and cure. Then you get the rundown on how to wash it so it lasts.

Recent work

Cars, boats, campers, semis, tractors.

A cross-section of what's come through lately. If yours isn't here, it's still probably a yes.

Straight from Google

Satisfied customers.

★★★★★

“Did a phenomenal job! Great communication, punctual, very thorough to detail! Just did a really amazing job for a great value and came to me. If it wasn’t my own car, I would’ve recognized the inside that’s how great the job was done, thank you!”

Alyssa Warren · Google
★★★★★

“For being a mobile detail service I was impressed with the thoroughness. Usually when I have a mobile service come to my home they do the bare minimum and are done in 2 hours, but he was working on it for a long time outside, even when it was extremely cold. I’ll be getting ahold of him again next time.”

Darby Byron · Google
★★★★★

“Very easy to have done, I just called his number and ask to get my car detailed and he did it the next day, very fair pricing and quick, definitely will be having him do it again”

Calvin Kapteyn · Google

Where I go

Based in Carson City. On the road most days.

Roughly 45 minutes out from Carson City with no travel charge, which covers most of Montcalm and Gratiot counties and a good part of Ionia. Further than that, ask — it’s usually still a yes.

  • Carson City
  • Greenville
  • Alma
  • Mount Pleasant
  • St. Johns
  • Crystal
  • Ionia
  • Montcalm County
  • Gratiot County

Convenience is key

Pick a time. Leave the keys.

Booking takes a minute and you’ll get a confirmation straight away. Prefer to talk it through first? Call or text — I answer my own phone.

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