Establishing a Pro-Grade Routine of Exterior Vehicle Care for Your Ride

San Diego, CA’s Exclusive Exterior Auto Detailing Shop

Exterior Detailing Packages at F.S. Detail

Maintenance Wash 

STARTING AT $50

THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES:

  • Two bucket hand wash 
  • Hand wash wheels and tires
  • Apply no-sling tire dressing
  • Light vacuuming of interior
  • Door jams are cleaned
  • Glass cleaned inside and out

Mini Exterior Detail

STARTING AT $80

THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES:

  • Everything from our Maintenance Wash detailing package plus these upgrades:
  • Apply no-sling tire dressing 
  • Apply paint sealant
  • Apply hydrophobic windshield treatment

Full Exterior Detail

STARTING AT $150

THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES:

  • Everything from my Mini Exterior Detail package plus these upgrades:
  • Decontaminate paint to remove minor bugs/tar/grime
  • Decontaminate remaining impurities with clay bar
  • Apply trim dressing 
  • Apply paint sealant 
  • Apply protectant to exterior trim
  • Polish and wax mixture is applied with a dual-action buffer
  • Optional upgrade to 3-year or 5-year ceramic coating

Add-On Exterior Detailing Services at F.S. Detail

Engine Detailing Service

STARTING AT $20

Pop the hood and have a good look at what is collecting under it. You may find environmental messes, grease, and other grime that is surely impacting the performance of your car, truck, or SUV. With our engine detailing service here at F.S. Detail, we clean up all the reachable areas of your engine and engine bay, helping it run smoother while looking dapper to say the least!

Headlight Restoration Service

STARTING AT $50

Where else can you get a multi-stage wet sanding process, polishing effort, and slick, crystal clear ceramic coating for your headlights and casings than right here at F.S. Detail of San Diego, California? In having your headlights cleared free of contamination and debilitating defects, you drive safer and contribute to a better overall appearance of your ride’s exterior.

Wheel Ceramic Coating Service

STARTING AT $50 PER WHEEL

Our exterior detailing efforts are so in-depth, they go right down to your wheels! Following a solid decontamination of your wheel faces OR the full wheel itself, we install a hydrophobic IGL Ceramic Coating formula on them which properly prevents the dust and dirt on California roads from seeping into areas it does not belong.

Professional-Grade Detailing Done Efficiently

While the scratches and scrapes that cause significant and prominent degradation in your vehicle’s surface, there are just as many completely avoidable issues caused by environmental and human made contamination buildup. This includes dirt, mud, road spray, sand, and other environmental contaminants that if left unattended on your exterior surfaces, can and ultimately WILL wear down your clear coat, wheels, and glass.


The most effective way to combat these issues is NOT taking it to a public car wash here in San Diego, California. What makes most sense for any vehicle owner to come to F.S. Detail for a comprehensive exterior detailing service! Helping clean up your vehicle’s exterior more thoroughly than ever before, you remove the responsibility of painstakingly washing your car, truck, or SUV and put it in the hands of a pro detailing shop. By way of all our delicate and detailed steps, exterior car care is truly redefined with our auto detailing efforts!


When looking for the safest exterior auto detailing package in San Diego, F.S. Detail is the right auto care facility to consider! We never allow our standards to slump, always keeping in direct contact with you during every step of the process. Start with a FREE estimate by clicking below and filling out our helpful quick quote form. This was established to help you budget for your first and future detailing services, and if you have any questions or concerns, call (619) 708-9695 today.

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Here Are the Results Exterior Detailing Brings to Your Ride!

Hyper Clean Vehicle Exterior

All other efforts in the realm of keeping your automobile’s paint, glass, metal, and wheels clean will pale in comparison to our exterior detailing packages here at F.S. Detail! You will not believe your eyes when we open our garage door and reveal the fully decontaminated, completely clean result that is your car, truck, or SUV. We keep this top shelf standard by being the most thorough auto detailer in the San Diego area.

Pristine Paintwork Preservation

Because we also specialize in IGL and Artdeshine Ceramic Coatings, we know how important it is to preserve the integrity of your paintwork. Following a full exterior detail, where hand washing and clay bar efforts are utilized to remove every molecule of dust or dirt from your pride and joy, following it up with the hand application of any of our three ceramic coating paint protection packages is vital. These coatings lock that paint perfection in place for YEARS, making your future exterior detailing efforts much easier and more affordable.

Prepare for Paint Correction

We have two extremely effective auto paint correction services available to our detailing customers, but they cannot be effectively completed without first having our premier exterior detailing services done! These auto detailing packages completely prepare all painted vehicle surfaces for the removal of defects and discrepancies - An integral stage that more than compliments these restorative measures taken on your car, truck, or SUV.

How We Create New Shine on Your Vehicle’s Exterior

Vehicle Inspection and Price Estimate

Starting by getting all questions and uncertainty out of the way, the first step in exterior auto detailing involves a complete and thorough inspection of the vehicle’s condition. Much like the inspection that is involved in auto paint correction, this is how we make accurate notes on all the areas of your ride that are most heavily impacted by environmental and human made contamination. Doing this will allow us to report to you an accurate price estimate.

Full Hand Washing Service

Once the process officially begins, we start with a careful and thorough two-bucket hand wash process. This is much more than a simple rinse - We utilize safe cleaning solutions, a two-bucket method that prevents cross contamination, and microfiber wash mitts sure to only sparkle your surfaces and avoid swirl marks and light scratches. Doing so by hand affords us the ability to clean every square inch of your exterior, even the areas most commonly forgotten!

Clay Bar Decontamination Stage

After our two-bucket hand wash, there are still going to be some microscopic contaminants clinging to your surfaces. It is impossible to get them all with hand washing methodologies; therefore, to clean those off your surface completely, we move onto a clay bar decontamination stage. Here, we take a clay bar dedicated for the detailing industry, which agitates contamination nearly invisible to the naked eye and lifts it. You will notice a difference every time!

Rinse and Delicate Drying

Finally, after every part of your automobile’s exterior has been decontaminated here at our San Diego detailing shop, we finish with a gentle rinse to clear off any residual wash water or clay. This will make sure that your exterior is completely flawless and sparkling before we towel dry it. Microfiber towels are incorporated in this stage of the process as well, as the goal remains the same - NO contamination and NO swirl marks!

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