Hello, Kansas City. Welcome back to the Bespoke Automotive Refinement podcast, one of the highest and most rated Kansas City Car Detailing business. We are so glad that you joined us today.
We are currently in a very cold and wintry area because we’re in the Kansas City area and it’s close to Christmas. So we’re glad that you joined us today and we have with us Thomas Thill, the founder of Bespoke Automotive Refinement. He is truly the one you need to know for any Kansas City car detailing service or package.
Do anything done with your car, he is the man. Thank you, Thomas, for joining us today. Thank you so much for having me on.
I just love coming on and talking about all the different Kansas City car detailing packages and services that we offer to the Kansas City area. Well, one thing that I did not realize when I got of age to buy a car was some of the expenses that come with a car, what you can even do with it, all the upgrades and things like that. Right off the bat, can you tell us just a little bit about what are some cars that you’ve owned and what modifications or additions have you put on your cars? I’ve had a lot of different cars.
I kind of found my niche is Corvettes. So at a younger age, I was kind of experimenting with different platforms. I was into racing in some way, so I was playing around with different types of platforms of cars.
I had Subaru Impreza WRX STIs that had the H4 boxer engine turbo four-cylinder and I had the Mitsubishi 3000 GT VR4s with the twin turbo V6 dual red cam. I really found my niche with Corvettes because the 2000s models have the LS platform V8 in them and pushrod single cam technology. It’s unwavering.
I mean, you can just make so much power with those cars. When I bought my first Corvette, I immediately started modifying it, and immediately started racing it. I never really bought any other type of sports car outside of that because they’re just simple.
They just work. So as far as modification, the engine goes. On a Corvette, the best, easiest mod that you can do to a Corvette is change the headers.
So long tube headers and then change the intake manifold to like a 102 millimeter with a ported throttle body and then tune it. I mean, that right there is literally 50 horsepower to the wheels. So that’s engine performance modifications.
First thing aesthetically that I’ve ever done to every vehicle I’ve ever purchased is to change the wheels, which on the tuner cars that I used to own, you can really go with any aftermarket wheel. They look good. With Corvettes, it’s a little different.
Aftermarket wheels don’t always look the best on Corvettes. So I would typically upgrade the wheels to the newer generation wheels. So like on the C5 Corvettes, I would put C6 wheels on them and then on my C6, I put C7 CO6 wheels on it.
So that’s the first modification that I do to any car I own. And then one thing that you do right off the bat when you get a car is you do paint correction, ceramic coats, things like that. Let’s say somebody buys either a brand new car or a used car.
What would be some right off the bat things that you would do to it to either enhance it or to make the longevity of that vehicle last longer? Well, Avery, everyone’s different in terms of what would make a car look perfect again. You know, some people you can wash their, you can hand wash their car, their 15, 20 year old car, and to them, the car looks brand new again. To other people, a single step polish and a good detail will make the car look brand new to them.
To me, I have to, at minimum, do a two-step paint correction on any sports car I buy immediately after. With all the cars I own other than my C6 Z06, a two-stage paint correction got the car where I wanted it. But when I bought my C6 Z06, it was, for car guys that understand this term, a hoopty when I bought it.
It was a very low mile hoopty, but it was a car that sat outside, and was driven down dirt roads. It was a neglected low mile Z06, which kind of seems hard to believe, but I came across the right deal for me, and so I bought the car at a really good rate. There’s no way I would have been able to afford that car had I bought a clean um garage kept version.
So, I ended up buying that car and completely ripping the interior out. Like, I took the seats out, I pulled the carpet out, and I performed a mini restoration on the car. So, I completely wet sanded the entire car, corrected it back out, the carpet, I pressure washed the carpet, the paint.
There were some areas on the car where I had to paint all the way around. So, to any car guy, I don’t think you can go wrong with a Kansas City Car Detailing two-stage paint correction and a five-year ceramic coating. What that’s going to do is that’s going to perfect the paint to a literal showroom finish new, and then it’s also going to protect it from light scratching, micro marring, and chemical etchings from bird droppings, bug gut etchings, and tree sap, and just all the other harmful elements on the road.
And that’s also going to keep it to where the vehicle repels road salts, water, mud. It’s really going to help the paint stay in that showroom-like finish versus a car that you just keep driving it, you just throw a coat of spray wax on it, you keep driving it for five years. That’s just going to make the paint degrade more and more over time.
So, let’s say somebody bought a car that is not a sports car, but a jeep. Let’s say you got a jeep straight off. What would you do if somebody wanted more of an off-roading vehicle? Modifications would you make? For an off-road vehicle, the first thing I would do is, at minimum, a body lift.
With jeeps, I believe they already come with a factory body lift, so I would do a six-inch suspension lift, change the shocks, and upgrade the suspension. I would upgrade the wheels and tires to more of an aggressive off-road wheel and tire. It’s also something that looked good on the street.
I would put different fender flares on it, so you have really pretty painted fender flares. I would either flare them out even more and also paint them red, or I would do a black fender flare that if it got hit, or if you hit a tree limb, it pushes it out of the way without scratching your paint. On a jeep, I would honestly change the front bumper.
On the jeep that you have, it’s got a plastic one that isn’t really efficient for off-roading. I would go with a steel bumper, like the one that your brother has on his. You could literally hit something with that and it wouldn’t cave the front bumper in.
I would say your brother’s jeep is done perfectly for off-roading, but it’s a total mall crawler. For the time being, until your brother does off-roading with it, I call them mall crawlers, where they just cruise around town, but they’re like a true off-road monster. So those are the things I would do, but as far as paint goes, I would still do a two-step paint correction and ceramic coating, even on an off-road vehicle, because you’re still going to want it to look good, and you’re still going to want it to be protected while you’re doing that off-roading.
So my favorite thing to see is a vehicle that gets used that has perfect paint, that still can be protected and washes easily after going muddy. So if somebody was wanting to get a Kansas City Car Detailing Service package done, how would they get a hold of you? Well, you can reach out to me at 620-282-0402. That’s my personal cell number, and I can answer any questions you may have, or you can go online to BespokeRefinement.com. You can go online and look at all the Kansas City Car Detailing Services that we offer.
It breaks down all of the different packages and what’s included in each of those packages, and we also have a lot of photos online of cars that we’ve worked on, trucks that we’ve worked on. You can see all of the different vehicles that have benefited from our Kansas City Auto Detailing Services.