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Dan Kastner (the detailer) - premiershine9 - 05-30-2011
Hey guys,
My name is Dan and I am going to be a junior coming this fall semester and I'm a HSA major/ business minor. I live in Ramsey, New Jersey which is about 30 minutes away from NYC. No i'm not a guido and I don't like the Jersey shore, in fact I hate New Jersey. :thumbup: My obsession with cars started when I was around 8 when my mom came home with a Viper GTS model and I cherished the thing like it was my baby. After that the obsession grew and before I knew it my parents were getting calls from my principal asking them to not allow me to bring my Road and Track mags into class anymore.
For the last 7 years I have been detailing cars and slowly growing my own business- Premier Shine Auto Detailing (website coming soon). Currently I service around 35-50 cars when I come home for the summer months from school and average 2-5 cars a week. I love what I do and I'm constantly reading and practicing my various skills as well as testing out new products. I consider myself a professional but still always learning, the game is always changing. While at school i've been lucky enough to get my foot in the door at Mid Atlantic Motorwerkes as their detailer. I'm responsible for taking in cars from auction as well as trade-ins and using my detailing skills to hit the spots that I see need my attention. (BMW financial does some great buffer swirls!) Working at MAM in H'Burg while taking classes has been an amazing opportunity as I am able to get out of class and practice my various skills on 15-20 European highline models.
What I drive- 2002 Jeep Wrangler sport- 3 Inch Tera lift w/ skyjacker nitro's, 32 pro comp MT's, borla cat-back, full kicker audio and a bunch of other goodies. I've had Rocky (his name) for 5 years and have put around 35K on him. I use the Jeep for what its for- off-roading the piss out of it....It's not a mall crawler by any means. Don't know if he'll stick around after school with the 10-12 MPG i'm getting now but if I do keep the Jeep it will have much bigger plans to build it up even more.
![[Image: DSC01275.jpg]](http://i1131.photobucket.com/albums/m553/premiershine9/Jeep/DSC01275.jpg)
I will be posting detailing write-ups, instructional write-ups with pics and product reviews. PLEASE ASK ME ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT DETAILING- interior/exterior care, polishing, correcting a problem etc. THATS WHY I WANT TO BE HERE- to simply help MM and have a great time.
Thanks to Jake and the other guys for taking me in with open arms and of course Natalie as well
Thanks for reading guys!
O, anyone else a Foo Fighters fan? :beer:
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - DavidL - 05-30-2011
Good to see you up on the forums Dan! Look forward to seeing some detailing info
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - Jake - 05-30-2011
Good to have you on here
I know several members/alums were asking for your contact info so you might get some PM's...
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - Sully - 05-30-2011
Glad to have you in the MM family, can't wait for the detailing write-ups and what not because I have bought 3 or 4 different gallon sized car wash soaps just to shelf them from disappointment after using them. I miss the old armor-all cheap blue car wash(does anyone know which one I'm talking about) it used to be a direct(no bucket) type and had a red friend that was a liquid wax or something.
Anyway, back to what this thread is about, once again glad to have you joining the MM ranks and you taught me something already :thumbup: ....Had no idea this guy existed------> :beer:
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - ScottyB - 05-30-2011
welcome, jeep looks good!
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - premiershine9 - 05-30-2011
Anyway, back to what this thread is about, once again glad to have you joining the MM ranks and you taught me something already :thumbup: ....Had no idea this guy existed------> :beer:[/quote]
Hahah no problem!
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - Scott - 05-30-2011
Jake Wrote:Good to have you on here
No kidding, I have a black Miata that could seriously use your help......
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - premiershine9 - 05-30-2011
First write-up posted from this past weekends BMW Z4 detail, only half of the write up is there, everything except polishing process....client did not choose paint correction package. Hope yall enjoy! TON more to come.
Note- write-up in appearance/cosmetic section
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - Goodspeed - 05-30-2011
Sup Dan, welcome to the boards! Good to have a detail guy here, I'll have some questions for you if you start a Q&A thread. Nice writeup too, looking forward to more.
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - fiveoh2go - 05-31-2011
What's up man! Glad to see you on the MM forum!! :thumbup:
Re: Dan Kastner (the detailer) - CaptainHenreh - 05-31-2011
The Gravel Express needs some elbow grease, let me know when you're back in town...