James D Smith
I like to think of detailing as a personal experience. You're handing, essentially a member of the family, or one of your biggest investments over to someone for normally a few days, so for me its important for you to know who's going to be giving the upmost of care to your pride and joy.
My Story
I have always had a passion for cars and anything with wheels and an engine. I started cleaning them from a young age, running around peoples houses during primary school holidays with the horrific black bucket and yellow sponge we all know, charging £1 for a "valet". Those were the days.
It was this early introduction to the world of detailing and valeting that sparked my creativity and led me to develop my own unique style.
Growing up I developed a huge interest in caring for and appreciating everything you have, especially your car. So it gave me great pride in cleaning and maintaining parents cars, my own bikes, paying attention to the finer details along the way. Years down the line, Noticing an obvious passion, interest and skill in detailing, friends and family recommended I start trying to make a living off of it, so that's where the idea began. And after years of perfecting my own style and techniques on my personal vehicles, I finally decided to start up JDS to set a new standard and to showcase my own take on Automotive detailing.
Years later JDS has now become a renowned company for maintaining some of the highest standards in the country, being shortlisted for "Start Up Business Of The Year" for Wales, receiving Millions of £'s worth of vehicles through its doors and to this day, is still being ran from nothing other than the same passion that started it all of.
Gethin Joins JDS!
Please welcome our new detailer Gethin to Team JDS!!
For me, the biggest thing when looking for someone was passion, it’s something that separates JDS from the rest. Gethin has always been one to show extreme passion towards detailing and car care, coming to all our training days, to detailing his own and friends cars to great standards, which with our 1 on 1 training, will only get better whilst he perfects his own style of detailing!
Gethin enjoys spending his free time detailing his gorgeous Integra Type R along with going for leisurely drives up the Brecon Beacons. So if you turn up in anything Japanese, you’ve already got a fan!
His dream however? The dream would have to be a Guards Red 997.2 GT3 in manual, nothing like a man with taste!
