A regular car wash does not offer any form of protection to your car's surface. Car detailing, however, corrects any paint defects and protects your paint from natural elements like acid rain, bug splatter, and bird droppings that may harm your car's paint.

Car detailing is the process of improving the condition of a vehicle's interior and exterior appearance. This involves the most thorough clean possible, any enhancement to deal with minor defects such as clear coat scratches, and protection to maintain the condition.

Detailing is achieved by removing visible and invisible contaminants from the vehicle's interior and polishing the exterior to its original blemish-free finish. The fundamental detail options include an exterior wash and wax, interior vacuuming, window cleaning, and surface polishing.