Betelnut wrote:
"Why is cleaning a car called "detailing" instead of, say, "cleaning a car"?"
Detailing can include anything from basic cleaning up to and including tearing out the whole interior down to the frame and rebuilding it or stripping the exterior of the car and redoing it, so "detailing" is really a superset of cleaning, and an auto detailer who just does a basic cleaning will still call it "detailing" the car. Most people who use such services don't want to pay for more than basic cleaning, but for the right price a detailer can handle things like trim repair or fixing seats or customizing the dashboard and such.
Virg