Dialed In - Some Obsession Required Mar 20, 2026

Dialed In Podcast: March 20th, 2026

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Car

BMW M3

The BMW E46 M3 is a sporty car made by BMW that is known for being fun to drive and having a strong engine. Many car fans really like it because it handles well.

Concept

bring-a-trailer car

Bring a Trailer is a website where people buy and sell special cars by auction. Saying a car is a 'bring-a-trailer car' means it was sold there.

Term

manual car

A manual car means you have to change gears yourself using a stick and a pedal, instead of the car doing it for you. Many people like this because it makes driving more fun.

Car

BMW E46

The BMW E46 is a model of car made by BMW that many people like because it drives well and is fun to own.

Concept

rear end collision

A rear end collision means the back of the car got hit by another car. This can cause damage that needs fixing to keep the car safe and working well.

Concept

exhaust system

The exhaust system is the part of a car that lets out the gases made by the engine. Changing parts of it can make the car faster and sound cooler.

Part

mid pipe

The mid pipe is a part of the car's exhaust system in the middle. Changing it can help the car run better and sound nicer.

Part

headers

Headers are parts of a car's exhaust system that help the engine breathe better, making the car more powerful and sound louder.

Company

Castro Performance

Castro Performance is a car shop in Southern California that makes special parts for cars to make them faster and sound better.

Car

Nissan R34

The Nissan Skyline R34 is a fast and popular car from Japan made around 2000. Many car fans like it because it can be made even faster and looks cool.

Term

tune

Tuning means changing the car's computer to make the engine run better or sound nicer.

Concept

project car

A project car is a car someone buys to fix up or change to make it better or more fun to drive.

Car

BMW E92

The BMW E92 is a two-door version of a BMW car made between 2006 and 2013. People like it because it's fun to drive and looks sporty.

Car

Porsche 718 GT4

The Porsche 718 GT4 is a sporty car made by Porsche that is built for fast driving and great control on the road or track.

Car

Porsche 911 (991.2) Carrera S

The Porsche 911 (991.2) Carrera S is a type of Porsche sports car known for being fast and fun to drive, with a powerful engine and good handling.

Term

tunable

When a car is 'tunable,' it means you can change parts or settings to make it faster or drive differently.

Car

Honda Civic

The Honda Civic is a small car that lots of people like because it is easy to fix and good on gas. Many people also like to customize it to make it faster or look cooler.

Concept

JDM collection

JDM means cars from Japan that were made for people living there. Some car fans like to collect these because they are special or different from cars sold in other countries.

Term

microfiber towel

Microfiber towels are soft cloths that help clean cars without scratching them. They are better than regular towels because they pick up dirt and dust safely.

Term

rinseless washing

Rinseless washing means cleaning a car with very little water, so you don't have to rinse it off like usual.

Term

eagle edgeless

The Eagle Edgeless is a soft towel without edges that can scratch, making it good for washing cars without water.

Term

waterless washing

Waterless washing means cleaning a car without using a hose or bucket of water, using special sprays and towels instead.

Concept

detailing

Detailing means cleaning a car really well, inside and outside, to make it look almost new or like a show car. It’s more than just washing; it’s about making the car look its best.

Car

Tesla Model 3 Performance

The Tesla Model 3 Performance is a fast electric car that can go really quickly and has cool tech inside. It runs on batteries instead of gas.

Term

manual transmission

A manual transmission means you use a stick and a pedal to change gears yourself when driving. It makes driving more fun and lets you control the car better.

Car

Porsche 911 GT3 RS

The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is a very special and fast 911 made for racing. It has extra parts to help it go faster and handle better.

Car

Porsche 911 GT3

The Porsche 911 GT3 is a very fast and light version of the 911 made for racing and fun driving. It has a strong engine and special parts to go fast.

Term

PPF

PPF is a special clear sticker put on a car's paint to keep it safe from scratches and little dents. It helps keep the car looking new for longer.

LIVE

I'm back. It's Friday. The weeks are going by fast and I'm excited

Because you haven't been following along I got a

interlogos

black interior

50,000 mile 49 and change thousand mile

E46 M3

and I haven't been this excited for a car in a long time. It's been quite a while and

I'm excited for the project. I'm certain, you know, it's probably really nice

But it's probably not really nice to me. And so

It was a bring-a-trailer car

I think a guy owned at Massachusetts who did most of the modifications and then I bought it from a guy in Texas

But it's awesome. I just posted in the og group and

I said I

said

You know, there's I'm looking for it's 50,000 miles or less

interlogos alpine white or

Imola

possibly, you know, I was a titanium silver maybe but I'd rather not

black red or cinnamon interior and

And so people started coming out of the woodworks enemy email

So this car wasn't for sale as many of the cars that I was offered weren't for sale

And and so we you know came in agreement I paid 65 grand for the car, which I think is a it's not a lot

It's like a fair price for it. I think

So I'm feeling pretty good. It's a man original manual car original compact car

But it has olden's road and track. It has the RKP hood or sorry roof carbon fiber roof already done

It has a CSL trunk already done

CSL diffuser already has the carbonius intake

And and then I'm going to take it to the next stage. I'm gonna do a CSL from bumper

Probably do a bunch of paint work

Do a nut and bolt restoration maybe zinc plate them all so I want to get underneath the car dry ice clean it

Sasset replace anything needs to be replaced

Replace but shuffle the interior do all the IND cosmetic stuff that it doesn't have like the like the black painted

BMW badges and you know just just do my thing

If the glass needs to be replaced do that, you know get the windows tinted get the paint repaired get the you know car

Looking like it's a 5,000 mile car

Drive it love it if I don't love it sell it if I do absolutely love it

I probably will still sell it and go find you know a thousand mile car, so

I'm excited because I'm you know

I'm getting back to driving every day

I get a little bit better a little bit more still haven't gotten through any traffic lights or anything like that

But I just forced myself even days. I'm not doing good to just go out and drive around the neighborhood

and

I'm going out every weekend

They come up here to HQ and then go have somebody go with me get let's get out to the back roads till eventually

I can get to the back roads myself

So this weekend a goal would be to go drive the e46 because I should have it tomorrow

According to that the shipper

So I'm I'm pumped man, and this is the most excited. I've been about a car in a long time

You know the last several cars I've gotten I couldn't really drive at all. So I was like well

What's the point? And I can see the light at the end of the tunnel here. I can feel it

So I'm

I'm getting excited

So let's look at your questions here

We got going on here. Okay

I'm the first to call it due to Matt being able to drive again. This is his new e46. Yes, it is my new e46

That's a photo of it

And I'm excited if you guys want to check it out

Uh, let me put a link in the chat here

Of the bringing the original bring a trailer. So the guy that I bought it from bought it from bring a trailer

He did the only thing modification he did he did the four four ten gears

Um, it did have a rear end collision, but it's all documented

And I'm I'm not as worried because I know that any any 20

15,000 mile or greater

E46 I'm gonna have to fix the paint. I just know that going into it

So here's the uh, if you guys want to dig into it, that's the car

So there we go

Let's see

Zach says Matt if you were selling professional services via youtube, how would you approach

Change how would your approach change? So if I was selling something like, um

Insurance pressure washing, um financial practice law firm

It's really tough

I think the way to do it is you want to build a personal brand

Right and so what happened to me when I was in wealth management. I really wanted to sell my service, but I couldn't

What I did was just share my life and build a personal brand and share who I was and what I was about and what I liked

And then if I'd ever in passing mentioned, you know, by the way, I'm a pretty serious financial professional

Um, then people would kind of reach out and call

Now if you're not hamstrung it could be really great

So, you know, if you're into cars or whatever you're into, you know, use your passion

to to

To create a personal brand

around the passion

And then sprinkle in what you do

So that people that are you know are bought into what you're up to are willing to

They might be willing to listen or hear hear you out

And chances are if so it but if you're in an interesting profession an interesting professional service thing

Then you would probably want to lead with that. I mean that hopefully is your passion

And you just want to be really authentic and share it and try to make it interesting

So people might whether it's educational entertaining has some benefit to people that would make them want to utilize you or buy your stuff

Jbi shop 98 says hemat. Have you done any other testing with the air 635?

What's the best orifice for the griots foam cannon on are you using any metering tips?

So we just installed my single

og wash station at my house

With a single ar 635. So I took the dual crensils out. So I'm going to be

Modifying and shipping that out. I sold mine

Just so that I'm forced to do long-term testing

You want the 1.5 millimeter orifice on a dedicated 20 amp circuit?

I don't know about metering. I kind of over the old metering thing anyway, but you'll have to test that out

I might play with that a little bit

But yeah 1.5 is fine

It pushes it right the limit

Which is which is good you get good foam everything works great, but I'm going to do some more testing some videos

I'll share that with you

We'll have a video on the og channel in the coming weeks

Of the og wash station launch and install. I think it's probably going to be like 6500 bucks for that setup

So not everybody's going to buy it

But we're going to launch with that and we're going to start you know working through

accessories and things

To give you options like buying

Buying a di and ice treatment buying it without di because most people don't even want di

Buying it di only

To complement the cr spotless because the cr doesn't do the you know won't work with the 635 won't work with the 630

Won't work with the active 3.0. So it won't work with the new pressure washers

And so it at times has a difficult time you know keeping up with even the Crenzel stuff

So it's a nice complement at much much more money. So we'll be coming out with that at some point too

Is this the new permanent time for the friday podcast? Yeah, it's always been 2 p.m. On friday. So i'll continue to do that

Brian's car stuff. Hey matt video production on the og channel is looking great give kudos to white and lexus. Yeah, we're getting better

We need to work on our thumbnails and our branding and our style

I tell you what if you if you guys have a connection

I want to I need to find someone we need to make some original music

So I want to make some sort of original

Chris Stapleton like

You know whiskey mires type

og signature sound

That we can use in every video

So I'm and then we're gonna you know get our graphics and get this all set up over the coming months

As we as we we're starting to figure out the system now

I'm doing the podcast

I'm doing two videos on the matt mormon channel

We're gonna do two videos on the how obsessed garage how-to channel

And two videos on the og channel a week

Plus inside the hex i'm gonna shoot my inside the hex vlog tomorrow

And then by april we're gonna have a plan set up for

Sponsorship so we're gonna go out and I'm gonna start like for example. I could be

Mid-roll adding this bottle, you know, so reach out to them global healing and share with you the cool stuff that I find

Because I found there's a gap if I'm doing just garage

And then I'm doing horror and lifestyle on matt mormon

There's a gap in the system here where you know, I'm talking about all kinds of different interesting things like I'm you know, I'm selling you

road microphones and

bed sheets and

Faucets and shower heads and all these different things that I think is an opportunity that I don't really I don't think I want to sell that

But I think if I do some mid-roll stuff when I find something cool or do product placement stuff where it's in a video

And and showing you where to buy it and it's not from me, but it's from the company direct

I think there's some real value in there because what I want to do

I want to build a really really highly produced really awesome weekly

business vlog on inside the hex

And so that's going to require some capital to do that

One I think we'll go out and find a bunch of new members that would pay for it

And then two if I get a bunch of sponsors I can make the membership even cheaper

And then that would pay for my media team and I can grow the media team from there

So I'm going to I'm going to jump the shark a little bit in the coming year

This year where I've never done any advertisements before

But I'm going to only products that I'm going to seek out and seek them out like

I don't know my redwood sauna or

You know my bdi desk, you know and the snake river farms

Hardcore carnival or some of these things that I'm a big proponent of that I've shared with many many many thousands of people

I think that I can provide some value to the world with doing commercials, but not commercials

Let's see blues 35 31 says I've owned three e46's and my currently one

I've basically done maddie speck with no budget. I can help you get the exhaust dialed. You don't need headers

I think I really like adam lz's set up

His is a little jank because they kind of threw it together for a video

But I'm doing headers mid pipe full exhaust

The guys at castro performance in southern california. This is very, you know, shop made custom

But i'm doing that exhaust

His um and we'll see I mean i'm assuming i don't know because his car sounds incredible go watch the

I guess uh last week he put a video up of going around the compound and is e46 and

It's freaking incredible

Let's see

Um the e46 beat the r34 because the e46 is 60 grand the r34 is

200 just to get the base car

So um, that's why

Uh, would you ever do a on a budget wash product video or series nope? No interest wrong guy

You wouldn't want me doing that anyway. I mean, I it's not what I do

It's not what I'm interested in I wouldn't provide any value

It would just offend half of the you know, three quarters of the of the universe

Uh, I'm you want me chasing good or great or the best, you know, that's what I'm chasing

Uh, the key is to balance the csl air box sound with the exhaust. I agree

Cannot wait to see you dial in e46

um, let's see

Uh, I thought you didn't like the e46 didn't you have one? Why didn't you what didn't you like about it?

So the e46 sucks donkey ball stock. It's terrible terrible car

It looks great

sounds terrible

Needs a lot of work

And so you need to do the carbon roof. You need to do the trunk. You need to do the subframe reinforcement

That's the other thing my car the car bought already has a subframe done

You need to do the carbon air box. You need to tune it. You need to do all this stuff

and so

I've already got so I bought the car for 65 the roof's 10 the trunks probably

Four five to do so there's 15 subframes another

Four so there's

19 the air box and the tune is another

2,500 bucks or more I think it's more than that

So I'm at 20 something thousand dollars that I was going to do for sure

Olin's road and track so this car has 25 grand of the stuff that I was already going to do

And because I'm going to have to do a lot with the paint and nuts and bolts and stuff

I still get to play with it plenty because I normally like to do that stuff myself

And who knows how good the roof is and all that

So what we're going to find out and I'm going to fix whatever needs to be fixed

But I wanted to do the e46 and I want to do the e46 project and I hated how it sounded and I knew I was going to have to like buy

50 exhausts for it

Adam hadn't done the cash or exhaust yet. I don't think I didn't know about it

I just wasn't ready to do all that stuff to my car

And so I had a white one with like 20 something thousand miles on it. I bought from eag

And then I got that cockamamie scheme to do the giveaway of my e92

And get the you know 800 mile e92 which i'm glad I did and so I didn't want to have both and so I traded the e46 and I

I I hated the car

Um, I might still hate the car, but I hated its stock

And I didn't have the bandwidth to do the work to make it make me like it

I love the way it looked. I love it. Love that's sitting in the garage, but I didn't want to do all the

I needed to spend like $50,000 to get it up to spec

So I traded it back for what I paid for it back to eag

To evan at the time and uh for the e92. So

That's the story

Hey mac, can I have an update on swish tracks jacking plates? Please

Almost the end of the first quarter. Uh, it's laying on my floor right now. So at least I got it out of the uh

Development room now. I just need to use it. I've been focused on my um my gd3

Let's see edger grero says do you clean the tire dressing brush after each use?

Or how do you care maintain it? Nope? I just wipe it off with the with the 12 by 12 towel tire towel

And I never touch it just works kind of gets seasoned and stays kind of like a cast iron pan. I never clean it

Where do you store your wash brushes and sponges between washes? Well, I wash every

Pad that you know touches the car every time I use it. So that just kind of gets thrown on the floor and then thrown in the laundry

Then the other stuff stays in the wheel bucket and just kind of dries on its own

Let's see

Canada mustang says do you know if the guy who won the civic many moons ago still has it?

No, uh, he sold it on bring a trailer

Um, yeah time to start saving for a wash station. Yeah, you're gonna want it. It's gonna be sick

Will the cabinet for the wash station be available on its own? Yes, it'll be slightly redesigned

So that way it'll be more functional

It won't have like the area for the gauge and the valve and so it'll have shelves in the bottom adjustable shelves

And a larger door

But the way to you see the install tommy and joe kill it man. It's so easy to install tommy and I did it in two hours

While on camera

So imagine if you had a hose bib and a power outlet

You can install a custom install system perfectly in two hours or less

If you're not on camera and you watch our video beforehand

You're hanging on a cleat. You level the feet. It's incredible. Just wait. You guys are gonna freaking love it

It's gonna be too much money, but I'm making it in the u.s. And kind of all the internal components are insanely expensive

Oh super chat meticulous garage. Thanks, man. I appreciate it

718 gt4

991.2 karara s4s as my first Porsche

I have a 25 g80 m3 that I've tastefully modded and that I really like

Or or I could add an e 90 to the fleet to keep the g80. You know, what are your thoughts?

I mean if you're a g80 guy, then you probably would really like the karara s

I don't like the turbo kararas. Um, I don't hate them, but I don't have any interest in them

The nice thing about them is they're crazy tunable

But I I would rather have a 991.1 karara s or karara 4s

um, I think I think the pathway

Like you know, the perfect progression would be go g80 m3 to

Cayman gts

karara s

Then to gt4

Then to gt3 would be like if I was like 25 years old and I could or 30 years old

It'd probably be like 30 years old

If I'm 30 35 years old and I'm kind of coming up the up the ranks here

I would I think you would do

Well by you know that progression

But if this is my choice here

I wouldn't add any 92 to a g80 not yet in life. I would rather go down the Porsche route and have a single Porsche

Um, I'd go e90, you know once you once you you know start to collect start to build have more room

More garage space all that kind of stuff. I don't know your your exact situation, but

You know the g80 is one of those things you need to experience you need to have

And then you move on from it and you probably will never come back to it

Although I've been thinking f80s as I've been thinking about collecting here. I did my vision board

Maybe I should share my vision board with you guys

Remind me. I'll share it with you. Maybe next week next podcast

Maybe I'll just share I'll share it inside the hex is what I'll do so you got to go become a member

But I've kind of decided that I want to because I've been chasing space for so long

It was always money first and then it was spaced

uh, and so I think that um

I'm going to build and come up and acquire more space to be able to store more cars and then like I said

My dream here if I'm able to just cruise from Middleton to here from my place to here

I'm going to have tons and tons of cars and so I want to go back and get the dot one carara s or carara gts

I want to go back and you know, I'll probably get a civic

I'll probably build it. I want to build the jdm collection. I want to build an m3 m5 collection

I want to build a

um Porsche collection

That's what I think I want to do

And then it's just it'll be stored value. And so what I'm hoping to do is make obsessed garage really profitable

um to be able to have a nice incentive structure for the employees

um, and then um

And then I'm going to take half the money that I get

And it's my you know shareholder distribution half the money will get invested

The other half will get invested like I said last week will get invested in you know things that I'm interested in watches cars

and um

Maybe some art. I don't know

And watches cars and what was the other thing? Um, maybe sports cards

So to answer your question, that's a real tough. That's a toss-up. I mean, I think I would rather go carara gts first

If you can swing it

So let's go back to the top here talked about the wash station

The civic has changed hands a few times it's on bring a trailer. I thought it was only once but maybe it has twice

It looked like you picked up a nicely cared for e46 not og spec yet, but we'll enjoy watching you bring it to spec

It's gonna be a fun project

Hey matt the frank kruger says i'm curious what caused your ang dot anxiety with driving if you're willing to talk about it

So I've told this story many many times but just to clarify in 2014

Um, it was august. I think 16th. I remember the date because it was seven days after kate was born

Uh, and uh, we went to get photo family photos done

Um, I went to the store with ryan while ryan and kate were getting michelle and kate were doing the like baby infant photos

Uh, I was in the store. I scrolled facebook

My buddy was getting some sort of surgery and I had the black death. They almost pass out come over me

That's when anxiety sort of attached itself to holy crap. I could pass out any day any time

And then I was in this endless loop of panic. I had to get in the car drive down the highway

Panic crazy feeling like I was gonna pass out

And it kind of opened up pandora's box of this. Oh my gosh, this could happen anywhere anytime and so it attached itself to the car

Uh, fast forward. I've got through it. You know, you guys have watched me 2014 15 16 17 18 19 was able to drive

In some limited capacity

But I was always white knuckling it

2019 lost my front tooth

And uh had a kind of kind of just tried to push the angst and the fear and all of that

Trying to just try to squall it and squash it and really done anything to fix it

And so then I decided to head on this sort of life pursuit of

of business

Fitness took me a while to get to the fitness stage

Figure myself out

improve and um, and so I think there's a little divine intervention involved here that now I feel like I'm ready

Uh, and so now I've started to figure out how to deal with not run away from

But to accept float and accept the panic and I think that that's the that's the key here

So anyway, that's the story and so I've never passed out while driving

But and I don't think I ever will because it's different an angst panic attack is very different from a vasovagal event

And and yet I'm having a hard time disassociating

So that answers your question

How's the blue bike build going a bike is done

It was I think my spacers were wrong. So brice has kind of gave it to brice to do the final

He's working on making me some custom spacers

but it's uh

It's cool

It's going to get hung on the wall here at hq and probably not get driven a lot but written a lot but

I wanted a hard tail. Um, I think I did a pretty good job. It's together and breaks are done

Um wheels are good tires are good. So it's pretty sweet

Yeah, good point. I need to buy more cars so I don't run out of thumbnails

That's a very good point for uh for the podcast

At some point here, we're going to make a really nice thumbnail for the podcast, but uh,

Especially once I get a title sponsor for it

Yeah, um curb holman says new website layout and package setup is so much better. Uh, nice work

Yeah, nice work to the guys. Uh, we worked hard to kind of get this figured out

and um

The packages have we put the detailing packages up yet? I think those go up if they haven't

Very shortly

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh another thing, um

Yeah, the detailing stuff wait till you see that it's going to be great

Detailing packages microfiber package

Yeah, this is good

Something doesn't look right yet. There it is. Okay

And then I'm gonna add we're gonna go through it again now that it's all up the what's included section is really great

Um, it's clickable links. So it's gonna make a lot more sense to you

And so I'm going to um, we're gonna go through now that it's kind of launched and live

We're gonna go through and um, just kind of update our descriptions and really dial all that in

As well. So it it makes a lot of sense

I don't love this free shirt unlock the reward thing is kind of weird looking

Uh, but anyway, what we're doing if you spend 150 bucks on detailing

Um, I have all these amazing shirts. This isn't one of them

But I have all these amazing shirts that we've made for all the different giveaways and open house events and all this stuff

Uh, and I just I just got too many of them. It's too many skews to try to keep in stock

Um, so you're gonna want to go um, you know buy some detailing stuff and then we're gonna give you a shirt

You know, I mean, I don't like free stuff. I don't like people value free stuff

But I don't want to throw the shirts away and I wanted to figure out, you know

How could I get the most bang for the buck? Uh, so the one way to do that

Is um

Is to give them to you guys and you'll go out and represent

That's the plan

Yeah, I don't have a row row rogue shirt on I don't know what this some generic black shirt that I bought

Have you tried ads tire and wheel cleaner? Uh, yeah, I have me. I don't really like it

I do have a prototype tire dressing

from

I think brake busters better and um, I think bill hammer auto wheel is better

Can you talk about microfiber 4.0? Yeah, so what I changed in the new microfiber package and pull it back up

It's not a remarkable change, um, but it is a long time coming considering some of the tiles I had were discontinued like the pluffles

Uh, and so the package now has

I I moved the large towel the bulk drying towel

Down in size to the liquidator and I wanted it to be smaller size

So that's our you know our large drying towel

Um, and then um, I added the eagle edgeless

I don't like eagles for any other task other than for waterless and rinseless washing

Uh, and so it actually does really well at that. So I that replaced the pluffle

Uh, the wheel towel is the same the large drying or the bulk drying towel is the same or the initial wipe

um, I

Uh, let's see. I went from orange to gray

FTW for the you know the secondary wipe when you're using drying aid

I went to the blue FTW rather than the waffle weave for glass

The interior towel stayed the same

um, the

Multi-purpose towel went to a silver rather than the dark gray because it washes better

It's gonna show dirt more, um, but it washes better and it's easier to wash because now a lot of our towels are gray

We I got rid of the pearl

It's too floppy

Because I've been using just the creature for coating removal

And then the polish towel got an upgrade

So I went to an edgeless 365 from an edgeless 360

So I wanted to have a single polish removal towel

And so we were we actually eliminated two towels which made the package a bit more attainable

But the matt mormon package is uh, 860 bucks because it's a boatload of towels

And so I don't really love how this description is going here. This doesn't look good

But we've got a we're gonna we're gonna tweak this stuff

And then I need to do a little better job. I'm gonna do a better job of teaching, but we're off to a good start here

Packages look good

What I wanted was to have the package at the top which very few people buy

And then from that then you can buy a la carte. So you would use the package

So you use the what's included tab

To figure out what you already had and what you needed to add for the all the people who already have all their stuff

But we've got some some room to improve upon that, but we got a something to work with

I'm gonna go through

And we're gonna figure out

Oh another super chat missed that sorry

Matt quick question from a solo detailer trying to grow my business

How would you predict?

Position your brand to stand out and attract hiring clients

Keep up the good work on driving in

We talked about this, you know a bunch in the past, but it's been a long time great question

So I always put myself in your shoes if I was gonna detail

For a living if I was going to do that and I wanted to work on the very best cars and I wanted to work with the very best clients

And and and knowing that there's a come up period

And I it's a little more difficult for me because I can cheat it if I was going to start a detailing business right now

I already have a following and I could probably you know drum up a bunch of customers really quickly

So let's let's assume that you already have some customers

And so you've already done the come up right you've done the base stuff

Which is to do

You know you're knocking on doors. You're you're doing stuff for free, you know, so you don't need to do that anymore

The first thing you need to think about is the the value perception

Right, you don't want to price yourself so high to where you know people rich people feel like they're getting screwed

But you don't want to be so, you know, you don't be doing $250, you know coatings and corrections and coatings

You know, they won't they won't they won't think you know what you're doing

But you also don't want to go write the three grand and price yourself out of the market

You you you go to three grand when you're jim white and you've you know, you've got that the following

What you need is you need to find a couple of guys

That are great, you know a great influence

And so what I would probably do is I'd go around to the cars and coffees

I'd go around to the car events

Any car event in your area and I would put myself out there

I would wear a polo

And I would wear some nice nice pants and nice shoes

You know, if you have a watch wear it

And have a couple business cards in your in your pocket

But don't go with like a real agenda

Come to think of it

Don't think I would wear my I would wear a polo, but I wouldn't wear like my branded polo

You know, I would go my agenda is I want to go there and I want to make some friends

And and I would go up and I would force myself to go talk to

As many people as humanly possible

And um, and then you've you know, ask them as many questions you can about them

Uh, and then at some point they'll probably reciprocate and ask questions to you

And you say look, I'm a I'm an obsessed level them. I'm a detailer and I've I'm obsessed with it

I love doing it. I love your car. You know, I tell you what, you know, if you if I can

I know everybody's looking for a good person to take care of their car

You know, I'm your guy. I'm like the guy that I would hire to do the job

Well, what'll happen from that you'll end up that guy

You'll find the right guy at all those events and then they'll call all their

But they'll be that you'll find the guy that's the influencer the one that is the referral source

Because he'll probably call four other people over at cars and coffee

Uh, and what you're looking to do by doing that is you're looking to catch people in motion

They're in between detailers. They've never had a detailer

They, you know, maybe it's their first car second car

I try to find, you know Tesla events as well because those generally are pretty good customers

Um, and so find, you know, the Tesla guys are getting together. So I do all that

Um, to find the high end if you're looking for just volume and you're looking for nice cars

Then you know, we use the Facebook groups

Um, and and try to find the local, you know, local car groups local, you know, German car groups stuff like that

But you want to spend like 75 percent of your time doing that

You know, the other 25 percent of your time is um, is detailing

So I actually if it were me, I'd be spending 75 percent of my time doing some sort of either internet marketing or or

contributing

Um, or going to different shows and events and shops and stuff like that and trying to get to know people

And then 75 percent of my time doing that 20 percent of my time detailing

And five percent of my time on the rest of my life is what I would do

Until you make it

And if you do that for like five or ten years

You're going to have like a massive business

Let's see so I hope that hope that helps

When is the video for the wash station install being posted, uh, I think probably in a couple of weeks

We got some work to do to get it up on the site and we want to launch it at the same time

Uh, neil white. Hey matt, what running shoes are you currently wearing? I'm looking for long distance shoes

Uh, going to do a few half marathons not interested in regular running shoes like brooks or hookah

My favorite is and I have like eight pairs of them one in each color. I have a couple of repeat colors is

sock any

ride

18s or whatever there are 19s whatever the current generation is i'm telling you now

It's a little subjective because your feet, you know, or everybody's feet are different, but man

They're incredible. They're the first shoes I've found where it doesn't feel like I'm wearing shoes

It's just like the shoes become non-event

Mike 1977 matt, what do you think about not going with 3 gpm?

And just duels because with duels you can use two for rinse and one for foaming

Yeah, I mean the duel is still my favorite

But for most people to go to a duel, you know, og high flow wash station is going to be like 12 000 bucks

Or more it's going to be or no it's going to be like 11 000 bucks

And so a single is going to be half or a little bit more than half

And we can get you and you're going to be using less resin. You'll be um

Yeah, I mean the single is the way to go unless you're just like me where you want the absolute best then

Dual krenzla's is my favorite. I like dual krenzla's over dual ar 630s

Gt4rs video will be up this weekend sunday, I think

It's it's it's good. I mean, it's not a good video, but it's it's good to hear it. It sounds so awesome

If you have an estimate how much does it cost per square foot to build a custom home in your area?

400 bucks a square foot something like that

You know 500 to 750 if you're doing it like og spec maybe 800 to square foot something like that

Single wash station. I think it's going to be somewhere around 6500

I wanted it to be five grand, but there's no way it's it's it's the the cost is

and when we we're we're

We're going to try to operate on like 30 margin and

It's going to be expensive and it's going to turn most people away. They're not going to be able to do it

But then if you're doing it without the without the the water treatment

Um, it's probably going to shave a thousand bucks off of it. Maybe a little bit more

When you see it though, you're all going to want it. It's incredible

Saw the gd3 brian says saw the gd there has more paint peel on the hood

Are you planning to do full repaint or is that still be to be determined? I just shot an update video

Which will be up early next week

Um, yeah, it peeled on the front driver's pen fender. It peeled on the hood

Um on the front, you know the frunk the front trunk area

So i'm going to paint the entire front clip

I got to paint the passenger rear rear fender and rocker area

Um, i'm going to talk to i've got to paint the wing

Uh, and so i'm going to talk to him about what we may do is just

Re-clear the whole car. Um, and so we're going to talk about that

Where are we at here we talked about microfiber

What do you add to window washer fluid to clean the windows I don't put anything in there

Um, I just I don't even use them. So it's kind of a boot point

Are very rarely use them

But I would put mckays in there. Um, unless you were going to freeze

J60 it says hey matt for home use would you recommend the standard dic 20

Or would the mobile solution be better option due to bypassing and looks?

He's talking about the cr spotless. Um, I mean either either is fine. I want the dual tank

So, um, I think you want the you didn't want the dual setup whether it's wall mount or portable

Uh, any plans for content with lz soon. Yep. I just talked to adam

I was talking to him yesterday in this morning about, um, paint colors on on some something he's painting

I was talking about the cash or exhaust. I told him I said, uh, it's pretty soon. I'm going to text you say I'm on my way

I'm coming to hang out

I'm driving

He said he said I'd be so pumped

If that happened

Uh, when do you do public tours every day any day, you know, we're not here on the weekends generally

I am sometimes but that's hit or miss

Um, but yeah any day eight to four thirty. We're here. I'm usually here till about five thirty before we go to the gym

So anytime you want just come on over

No vorsteiner csl front bumper on the e46 plan. Yeah, I think I like the vorsteiner one

But I've got to do some more research

Uh, first time listening to the live doing a touchless wash in florida

Looking forward to meeting the crew in the upcoming road trip early next month

My shopping's restocking list is long. I like that. I like to hear that

I um, by the way, I'm going to bmw invasion on april fourth

So hopefully bmw guys if you're gonna be there, I'll I'll see you there

I'm taking the bright line train down to west palm

And uh, stay in the night. Uh, and then I'm coming home sunday

Rephrase says I'm doing well in life only car has been a model three performance 29 years old what car under 150 grand

Um, if you want something new

And if you've only had a model three performance, I would go to bmw first

You know, you could probably jump to Porsche if you wanted to but I would probably do if I was going new

I would go f87 m2

Not the cs

Teach yourself how to drive a manual if you if you don't know how to drive it just do it

You'll learn in an afternoon or come here and I'll teach you how to drive it

You know call somebody who has it'd be it'd be worthwhile in life. It'd be a whole lot more fun

Um, so I would get a I would get a m2

g87 m2

And I would modify the crap out of it, you know

So you'd be say 120 grand when it's all said and done because you got 40 grand with the cool stuff to put on it

If you want, I'll send you my list of what I'm going to do to mine when I get it

And um, I would start with that and then my next car would be a cayman gts manual bermester

Uh, and then my next car would be a gt4

And then my next car would be a 9 11

um, and then

Actually, I think my next car would be a 9 11 then a gt4

Then a gt3 and then a gt3 rs

Oh another super chat

Spencer, what's up, buddy?

All right, matt, uh, you've been hyping up sonic next cabinets my array for the tint room is right at 11 k

What would be a reason why someone would not want these cabinets? I'm worried about the depth

I think the only reason you wouldn't want them is you don't like the gray. I think the gray is awesome

Another reason would be if you were going to be storing a myriad of brake rotors in every drawer

You know, so you were putting hundreds and hundreds of pounds in the drawers

That'd be another reason the depth is a non-issue

I mean remember they're the same depth as my sonic mss that I had in you know that I used for the last

Up until recent, you know, remember I had the l-shape array the arm building and the building before that and the building before that

Is incredible. Um, I don't think you're gonna have a problem at all

Get some 34 wides

Um, so get some 34s and some 26s. You're gonna freaking love it. So

I don't think you're gonna have a problem at all

So money well spent and you're gonna love it

Let's see. I like this keep the super chats coming. You gotta I gotta pay for these e46 parts. I'm about to buy

Let's see you should do an update on the Milwaukee tools. That's a good idea. I will do that

Um, is there an eta on wrinkle black air hose reel and power cord reel mount?

I think they're due any day

Agree we need some more JDM on the channel. I think we should make Ryan my son get something JDM

Uh, the Milwaukee m18 inflator is good. It is

I had the f82 m4 cs and I hated it

Yeah, well the m4 is just ugly. I know I can't can't do it

Um, would you ever do an og turbo s? Yeah, I think it's maybe some point. Um

You know, I envision

If I'm still gonna live, you know

20 miles from hq

I envision a world where I'd have a turbo s

and a

m5 f90 m5

You know just some missiles to you know cruise up and down

Um, if we're if we're collecting cars and getting a bunch of crap and wasting a bunch of money

I could see me heading down that path as well

So if I buy a wash station standalone

We could store soaps wash stuff in the lower and put press holes on top

And later convert it to hold a pressure washer and hose

Yes, the width is 18 inches the depth is 12 I believe

How about an inside a hex membership without vimeo access and instead of promo code for the youtube subscription?

I can never catch up to the content on vimeo, but youtube is easy access

So let's think about that

Um, how about inside the hex?

Instead of a promo for the youtube and promo code for the youtube subscription, I just don't think I can do that

I'd love to be able to integrate it

So right now you either subscribe on youtube or on

On our site, so we're gonna have to figure that out. I agree with you. It's stupid

But it's the only option I got for now because inside the hex for hex plus

Yeah, I'm telling you dude blues

You go to adam lz's e46. It's incredible

Sounds amazing and his is like again jank together. I'm having them make me a really nice one

I'd love to see an og watch collection collaboration. That would be cool. I should find some of the collab with in the future

Let's see hey matt plan on testing active 3.0 soon. Yep. I got one back there. I've got to play with it

Ever since I got my ads foam can I've been itching to watch my car again. That's good and tell me get new car wash and stuff

It's nice to wash

What's your pad polish combination for polishing wheels?

Mostly most importantly barrels. Yeah, I'm using the rupes nano

With a probably the new two inch backing plate

And I'm gonna use griot's fast correcting cream on

Probably I would probably use a medium rupes wool pad

Uh, let's see

Cw auto obsessed it's been a while since I've kept up with everything. You know g is mike f still around doing projects

Love seeing the how-to for everything. Yep. He's building the bullpen right now. He's on vacation

Uh, but he's finishing up the bullpen and then he and I have a bunch of car projects to work on

We have my laundry room to do

Um, which will be on the matt mormon channel

So we got a lot a lot of stuff doing but

We've been he's been laser focused on the bullpen getting for all where all the humans are gonna go. It's gonna look sick

Porsche guy says matt I'm local with a dot-two rs that needs ppf removed and dialed in

Let me pay you and you can make some content of it as well

I'll tell you what I would do it. Let's see. What would it take for me to do it again?

On somebody else's car

Let's see it would take me

probably two weeks

Like to you know to do it in my timing

Let's see the ppf removal if it's a whole car removal is probably

I mean I probably have a total of like maybe 10 or 15 hours to get it off

I don't know. I didn't keep track, but let's say it's 10 hours

If you know and I could probably do it in a day, but my hands hurt right now

And I did it over the course of many different, you know, two hour sessions

Uh, so 10 hours there another say

15 hours to polish it then it goes to um, so there's 25 hours

and then it goes to um

Get ppf done comes back gets coated

The all the coating process and the wheels and tires and all that stuff

You know takes probably another 10 hours

I'm so i'm 35 hours in

And then um my target rate is to make $5,000 an hour

so 35

times 5,000

I'll do it for 175 thousand dollars

Does that sound sound okay?

Or let's say let's say my target would be to make um, two million bucks a year

divided by

2,000 hours

Would be a thousand an hour. So all right, I'd do it for 35,000 bucks

But I want to make 5,000 bucks an hour

So I want to make 10 million a year. Um, is what I want to do

So if you're in um, I'd say I do today because I'm you know, I'm not that good

I'm not quite as um as as in high demand. So I would do it for 35,000

Without you'd have to pay for the ppf still. So you're probably going to be 45,000 dollars for me to do it

So you might want to go find someone better for a whole lot less

Kevin says

Thanks for jaring the origin of your driving fears. I always thought it was OCD and immediately

Picture someone needing to be a neat freak and always wanting to be organized

No, I mean my obsession the obsessive compulsiveness is the obsessive worry

um, the organized and and and structured is just a byproduct of that sort of

personality type

But the the phobic anxious type

That's driven by the constant obsession over it. Um, is my problem

Uh, one of you getting a paddock or I don't even know how to say is it vacheron or ap

and just not

I don't know. It's not really all that interested

Hey, mac can I email you a few questions about what you do with a car that I recently purchased when it comes to detailing

I'm kind of at my limit, man. Um, you can and um, you press your luck and see if I get inspired I can

Respond usually my tech support team does most of the responding now, but you can send it to me and maybe I'll get back to you

How could you be disappointed in brake buster? What do you want it to do? It's great foams well super slick cleans well cleans your tires great

It's awesome

Uh, no waffle weave. I really love waffle weave for glass, but the I'm telling you a twist loop is better

No shipping updates should be here. Um, well, it was three weeks last week or four weeks last week

So it should be three weeks this week

So it's on the way

Uh ordered and owned a 24 g 80 for two years sold to build my shop

I too have been looking at the f80 platform as I feel like they're at the lowest price

They will ever be and won't appreciate more

Hmm

I think f80s would appreciate more they made so many of them

So many of them

Uh cmp rushes. Hey matt. I am having problems with water spots from my neighbor sprinklers

Uh, will a durable coating help protect the paint while I can figure out a better solution

Probably not. In fact, the coating even of great coatings will probably make it even more water spot prone

Uh mopar says, uh, how long would you wait after a respray before polish and coating? It depends. I mean depends on the paint system

Polish and coating most of them, you know

Some of them can be seven days later

Some of them can be some of them are 90 days later

But some are between seven days and and three months

Um, I think you're probably safe at 30 days for most

Are the press all labels working on the squeeze bottles? No, they don't

Uh oh

Lost the internet

Yeah, you can put it on there and it's stick it sticks

But it's um, it's not gonna it's gonna start to bunch up a bit

Okay, I'm back

Where were we

Any plans to implement or add the active hose reel to the og wash station? I don't know it's um, I got one here

It's it's fit and finish is a little better. I think than the cox, but it has some of its own jankiness

Like it's just not well engineered

We really need to make our own so i'm not sure yet

Uh gen two jo 936 says have I have always avoided car covers due to marring and scratching

Is cover king still to go to car cover?

Yeah, but I mean I only put a car cover on after right after it's been washed

And I only like the really the indoor ones because they're super soft

Hey matt, what about the cullinite manzernocombo?

When can we see a wash and wash and talk waxing video? I was just thinking about that

I think what i'm gonna do because I want to get the gt3 finished first

Uh, and so, um, I'm gonna probably

I'm probably gonna take the ppf. There's some ppf on the

Interlaw goes e46. I'm gonna take that off

I'm gonna polish it

And then I'm gonna wax it. I'm gonna seal and wax it and live with that for a little while

And then I'm gonna go get it

Painted and then we'll coat it

Uh by kitty says, how do you go? How do you tackle recoding a car that is ppf is polishing or is required to get the current coating off?

Yes, you'd want to polish it just two-step it like you would paint and then recode it

Wild nine says, uh, how do you feel about ads coatings looks like you're going back to old faithful

Uh, it's great ads pro is my favorite, you know, high solids heavier duty coating and then I still love csl xo

Brian, I'm not going to trcma. Um, not this year

Uh, Jeff jr. Any plans for active 2.0 maintenance content and offering parts my water seals need replacing

Um, they are easy to serve as it seems like yeah, I probably should

Uh, and then I do need to finish the Crensla tear down and repair video

If we keep putting that on the back burner until we get the

Entry or the bullpen done

Uh, do you have any interest in meeting the dde team and seeing their cars once they settle in to the lz compound?

Um, I think that's a joke about them moving into the lz compound

I'm pretty sure that's a joke, but yeah, I'm sure I'd I'd meet with them

And hang out with them

Do you know the approximate cost of a single wash station standalone yet? I said it's somewhere around uh, oh no

Yeah, single wash station standalone. No, I don't know yet

512 tin says hey matt

What are your best tips and tricks for wall mounting and tv along with a sound bar while completely hiding all the cables?

It's really easy

Gotta hit studs. I've got a hit block. It's got to hit something solid

If it's metal you're gonna want to use toggle bolts

But you um, you need a level

You need a get like a stud buddy from amazon, which will you know

It's a little magnetic thing that finds where the studs are based on the you know the drywall screws

You know that are holding the drywall in

and

You know and then just pre-mount the bracket to the back of the tv

Measure you know the height I always draw it on like a you know draw it on a piece of paper and draw it out

And um, you mount the bracket put the tv in place

Then you're gonna or put mount the bracket

Then you cut your holes to run your wires and I just run the wires just bare through the wall

I run the power through the wall as well. It's always nice if you have a power outlet below it makes it easier

Um, but it's a pretty simple deal to do

Lots of great videos online too on how to do it

You

New mosaic gun maybe this year probably not this year

That would probably be early next year

Uh, what are you currently using for plastic dressing? Um, I only I just I don't dress it. I coat it

So I use a csl xo xo v5 is I think the best plastic dressing

So you don't want to dress it. You just want to coat it

And you don't want to dress anything in the interior. There's no need to dress anything in your interior

I'm telling you just keep your interior clean get heat rejecting

Tint and don't mess with it

Do you have a recommended leather die kit similar to what color lock had?

um, I think geist would be the get way to go eventually we'll have it for

Um for leader max, but geist would be the current choice

Any plans for hex focus

No, that was a short term thing

Um, have you tried the active 3.0 yet? Nope. I have one. I need to get on it. I've been focused on the gt3 and the

and the

Evo

And the new packages and all that stuff

Brennan crawford says I had a gti as a weekend car sold it for a 22

540 i

The bmw is for sale

Uh, doesn't scratch the fun itch. Am I missing something does this call for a cayman e 92?

Um, something to replace it. Yeah, I mean a five series bmw is not fun at all

It's like the antithesis of fun, especially a 540 i and a new one with turbos. It's just not good

Um, so yeah, I mean a cayman would be insane. You would love it

I'll put up 10k for 25 royalty to help develop an og pressure washer reel. Yeah. Yeah, we need to do it

Wash station by itself this spring or later. Um late spring early summer

So, um, let's see my plan on the e 46

Is to fix the paint

ind painted grills ind painted gills ind painted front and rear emblems ind painted floating center caps

Carbon x plate frame

carbonius engine cover

um rkb

Carbon front thrust panel the vorsteiner v2

front bumper

Castro headers and exhaust amx recaro seats

Replace any interior parts that don't look brand new replace those probably steering wheel shift boot

Knob for the e brake

floor mats

door the the um door sill

Door sills put the radar detector and get the windows tinted brambo gt

Possibly swap the suspension for olymps ttx

And then you know maybe respray the car

And then a stereo it already has auto auto solutions short shifter

kit

It already has a tune, but i'll probably update it with an alpha end tune

It already has csl wheels. So hopefully those are really good in really good shape. So i don't have to replace those

Already has a csl trunk

My m2 that i'm going to order hopefully late summer

i'm going to do fn carbon front grille

Their front grille front bumper trim

three-way or class three front splitter

trunk spoiler

rear diffuser

Then i would do the um m performance front air inlet trim set auto technic carbon engine bay trim set

ind cosmetic stuff

bbs fir evo michelin cup twos

So i do 20 inch bbs firs

future classic titanium stud kit mmx performance carbon ceramics and pad pad for those

3dm olymps ttx auto solution short shifter

The mmx power control module, which is the tune

eventury intake strut tower brace carbon intake scoops engine cover

The in div carbon cooling shroud engine bay cover set

Dry carbon ecu cover good rich black line engine cap set and an awp switch path. So the

The m2 modifications were like $40,000 so 80,000 our car 40,000 tons of modification

I wouldn't i mean maybe i would but i wouldn't plan to do it all at once

I would do it in stages

But it would be uh, i think it would be cool to do

I have to finish

Let's see gd3 rs

I removed the remaining ppf i can take that off the list

New front lip fix the gauges

Fix the door rattle i'm going to fix that right now and take that off the list

paint polish ppf coating whatever ppf i decide to do

The evo front bumper is almost done. The evo nine front bumper. We just had to order a couple more parts

I'm going to do the stereo. So i already talked to chris from garage or lando to do my stereo

So that'll happen in a couple maybe in a month

Um, i'm going to put the radar detector in i just got the blend mount today. I'm doing wheels and tires this weekend

We'll do the fender shaving when mike gets back

Gt4s i'm going to order an exhaust this week

And put the radar detector in i just got the blend mount for that

So this is why i said i can order the 46 before i'm done. I'm going to have this all done like by next week

Once i get the so the gd3 rs is going to get put outside gt4s is going to come inside and outside in the car capsule

I got to change a bunch of oil in all the cars. So i'll start doing that as well

but

Next weekend i'm going to bring the tesla up do the tesla suspension do the tesla brakes

My tesla wheels will be here in a few weeks

So i'm going to do all the tesla stuff

And i'm still waiting on the axles for the bronco that i'm sending taking to a shop

So i'm going to get that done. So i'm working on after the podcast here today

I'm going to get the gt3 mirror put on the wing put back on get that thing outside

And it'll sit in waiting to go get the paint done

And um evo wheels are going on this weekend. So i got to mount balance

Coat those get those on figure out what we need to do to put the suspension alignment

And then the evo lights and all that stuff is done. So um, yeah, it's looking good

I'm going to have plenty of bandwidth to play. I'm going to keep playing with cars and

I bandwidth for my my g87 or f87 m2

So in a perfect world i'd order that

In a couple of months and we'd pick it up

Early fall by then hopefully i'll be able to drive in the mountains. That's my plan

Anyway, that's a wrap for today

I'll see you guys next week. We'll get it up on

All the platforms and i appreciate you being here. Thanks for all your questions

See you next week

About this episode

Matt shares his excitement about acquiring a low-mileage Interlagos White E46 M3 and outlines his plans for extensive modifications and restoration to bring it up to his ideal spec. He discusses overcoming driving anxiety, offers advice for growing a detailing business, and previews upcoming projects including a new wash station and car builds. The episode also covers detailed Q&A on car care products, modifications, and personal insights into car collecting and content creation strategies.

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Original notes

Matt dives into a full mix of garage talk, personal growth, and business strategy. Matt shares his excitement about a newly acquired BMW E46 M3 project, and opens up about his journey overcoming driving anxiety and getting back behind the wheel.

He also drops valuable insights on building a personal brand, growing a business, and attracting high-end clients, while giving updates on new products, garage setups, and future plans for Obsessed Garage.

If you're into cars, detailing, entrepreneurship, and real-life progress, this episode brings it all together.

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