The "TikTok Detailer" Plague: Why Your £300 Ceramic Coating on Dead Paint is a Scam

Let’s be real for a second. We all love those satisfying 15-second clips on social media. The thick snow foam, the aggressive brushing, the sudden glossy reveal. It looks great on a phone screen. But there is a massive difference between creating content and preserving a vehicle. There’s a cancer eating away at our industry in the UK. It’s the rise of the "TikTok Detailer," often a glorified valeter charging £300+ for a "Stage 1 Correction & Ceramic" on paint that is already clinically dead....