Big Spring is about 90 miles up I-20 to our shop at 13209 Frankford Ave, Suite 4. Howard County sits at the edge of the Permian Basin, and that geography loads vehicles with oilfield dust and caliche faster than most drivers notice. Every vehicle is hand washed, clay decontaminated, and dried before any interior or correction work starts. Worth pairing with a coating if you are making the drive.
You're in Big Spring and you want a real detail — not a $30 wash-and-vacuum at a gas station, not a drive-through tunnel that drags brushes across your clear coat. You want the kind of work that actually transforms a vehicle. The problem is that Big Spring, for all its strengths as a Howard County regional hub, doesn't have that option. Delicate Details in Lubbock TX is 90 miles east on I-20, roughly 90 minutes of highway driving, and every Big Spring customer who has made the trip has left with a vehicle they didn't recognize. This guide covers what your vehicle is dealing with in Howard County, what we offer, and how to make the trip work for you.
Howard County sits at the edge of the Permian Basin, and that geography creates a specific set of paint and interior problems that accumulate faster than most drivers notice:
A basic car wash doesn't touch any of this. You need decontamination, clay bar treatment, and in many cases machine correction before your vehicle actually looks clean again. That's what we do.
We run three auto detailing stages. Every vehicle gets hand-washed, clay bar decontaminated, and dried before any interior or correction work begins. No corners cut, no shortcuts, no upselling you on services you don't need.
| Stage | What's Included | Sedan | SUV / Truck | Oversized |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 — Essential Detail | Exterior hand wash, clay bar, tire dressing, interior vacuum and wipe-down | $195 | $220 | $240 |
| Stage 2 — Full Reset & Protect | Steam interior clean, protectant on all plastics and leather, clay bar decon, 6-month ceramic sealant | $350 | $375 | $400 |
| Stage 3 — Premium Detail | Everything in Stage 2 plus machine paint correction — swirl marks, oxidation, and scratches removed before sealant | $695 | $795 | $895 |
Big Spring vehicles that haven't been professionally detailed before typically start at Stage 2. The steam interior clean alone does more than most shops offer at any price point. If your paint has visible swirling, water spot etching, or oxidation haze — common on vehicles that have sat in Howard County sun for more than a year — Stage 3 is the right call.
The drive from Big Spring to Delicate Details is straightforward: take I-20 east to Lubbock, exit at Frankford Ave, head south a short distance to 13209 Frankford Ave, Suite 4, Lubbock TX 79424. Total drive time is roughly 90 minutes in normal traffic conditions.
The best approach for Big Spring drivers is to treat it as a Lubbock day. Drop your vehicle with us in the morning — we open at 9 AM weekdays, 10 AM Saturday — then run your errands. Costco, Walmart Supercenter, United Supermarkets, Home Depot, and the South Plains Mall are all within a few miles of our shop. A Stage 2 detail takes four to six hours. A Stage 3 takes a full day. We'll call or text you when the vehicle is ready.
We don't rush jobs to turn the bay faster. Your vehicle gets the time it needs. Plan accordingly and the trip more than pays for itself — Big Spring drivers tell us they leave wondering why they didn't make this drive sooner.
If you're making the 90-mile trip from Big Spring, it's worth thinking about a ceramic coating while you're here. A ceramic coating bonds to your paint at the molecular level and creates a semi-permanent hydrophobic barrier against caliche, UV oxidation, hard water spots, and oilfield fallout — all the things Howard County throws at your vehicle daily.
Our ceramic packages start at $799 for a 2-year CarPro CQuartz SiC coating and go up to $1,899 for our 10-year flagship system. Every package includes full decontamination prep and machine paint correction before the ceramic goes on. A coated vehicle is dramatically easier to maintain between details and holds its paint condition significantly longer than an unprotected vehicle sitting in Permian Basin dust and sun.
For Big Spring drivers who want to minimize how often they need to make the Lubbock run, ceramic coating is the smartest investment you can make. Reach us at (806) 855-8042 or book online below.
Drop your vehicle in the morning, run your Lubbock errands, pick it up transformed. Serving Big Spring, Howard County, and all of West Texas from our shop on Frankford Ave in Lubbock TX.
Book Your Detail →Yes. We are shop-based in south Lubbock and customers drive in from Big Spring and across the South Plains. Because coating and correction need a controlled environment, the work happens at our shop rather than at your location.
Ceramic coating needs a dust-free, temperature-controlled space to bond and cure. In West Texas wind and caliche dust, an outdoor application traps contamination in the cured layer, and that cannot be fixed without removing and redoing it.
A detail is most of a day. Ceramic coating is typically multiple days, because decontamination, correction, application and cure each need their own time. We give you a real timeline up front.
We are shop-based at 13209 Frankford Ave, Suite 4 in south Lubbock, open Mon–Fri 9am–5pm and Sat 10am–5pm. Ceramic coating in particular needs a dust-free, temperature-controlled space to cure properly, which is not achievable outdoors in West Texas.