Focusing on the finer details

As a young BMX racer, Aaryn Nicholson was taught to always look after his gear and keep it clean – advice he built a career out of.

Owner-operator of Details in Blenheim, Aaryn Nicholson, who is also the co-founder of the New Zealand Academy of Detailing, took his dad’s advice to heart.

“As long as I can remember my dad loved cars and motorbikes, and whenever I raced BMX as a kid, he always told me to clean your gear and keep it at a great standard”, says Aaryn.

“I always wanted to be a chef and love cooking to this day, but I had no idea detailing was a career option. I fell into the job after meeting a fellow detailer through motorcycles, and I’m still here almost 30 years later.”

With top-of-the-line car cleaning, ceramic surface coating, paint restoration and detailing services available and a range of high-quality car care products available in their store, the Details team take their job seriously.

After almost 30 years in detailing and 13 running his own business, Aaryn has a nose for the best detailing products.

The team at Details boast some of the industry’s highest regarded qualifications too, being Tier 1 Feynlab™ certified ceramic surface coating and XPEL™ paint protection film installers.

“Often people don’t realise the difference in quality between what we use to protect your vehicle versus from dealerships and auto parts stores, but it is noticeable when the Details team complete the work.

Aaryn sees plenty of fantastic vehicles come into the Details studio from all over New Zealand, but he has a bias to his favourite vehicle he has detailed.

“We get some super high-class vehicles come through here like Lamborghini’s and Ferrari’s, but my favourite car I’ve worked on is an old school Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.

“I’m a Volkswagen fan, so being able to detail a vehicle I’m a fan of is gratifying and certainly not taken for granted”.

Aaryn and fellow detailer Richard Jones from Deluxe Detail based in Queenstown founded the New Zealand Academy of Detailing to help upskill their fellow detailers through their Advanced training with the next 2-day training this August. They also run enthusiast courses for aspiring detailers as well as training for dealership detailers.

“We aim to lift the standards of existing businesses with our hands on 2-day training. We had a young detailer from Auckland attend our training after he had opened his own shop but was struggling with the business costs and found himself in financial trouble in 2021.

“I checked in with him at the end of 2021 and there was a noticeable improvement in efficiency and accuracy of his work so in turn his reputation went through the roof as possibly the best detailer in Auckland and he successfully worked his business out of financial trouble - we love hearing those success stories”.

“We’ve all been on that ground level, and we want to help people become fantastic detailers by working with them on their techniques, efficiency and thoroughness of jobs”.

If you are interest in finding out more about the range of professional detailing services available or want to enquire about the New Zealand Academy of Detailing, contact the team at Details on 035776800