Presentation moves the price. A corrected, properly detailed car photographs better, inspects better and gives a buyer far less to negotiate with.
When a buyer walks around a car, they are looking for reasons to pay less. Swirled paint in the sun, yellowed headlights, a stained driver’s seat and grimy wheels all read as neglect, and every one of them becomes a discount. Most of it is correctable in a day.
We will also tell you honestly where to stop. On a ten-year-old daily driver there is a sensible ceiling on what is worth spending — the goal is the best return on the detail, not the most expensive job. Tell us the car and roughly what you are asking and we will spec it accordingly.