GYEON and ONYX ceramic coatings, machine paint correction and overspray removal for Ashburton drivers. We come to you, or you bring the car to our Berwick studio (30 km from Ashburton).
Ashburton is established, well-treed and home to a lot of cars that are garaged at night and genuinely looked after. That is the best starting point paint can have: there is real depth in the clear coat to bring back, rather than damage to disguise.
CDS is owner-operated. The person who looks at your paint is the person who corrects and coats it — Andy, with 30+ years of experience — so what you are quoted for Ashburton is exactly what gets done.
Around Alamein station, Ashburton station and Watson Park.
Established gardens and nature strips mean sap, blossom and bird droppings, all of which etch into clear coat if they bake on through a warm week.
European clear coats are hard and take more passes to correct properly; Japanese and some EV finishes are soft and easy to over-polish. Each gets its own approach.
A fast rotary polish leaves buffer trails that only show in direct sun. We see plenty of cars that have been 'detailed' this way and need it undone before they can be coated.
Even garaged cars pick up fine dust, and car covers dragged across a dusty panel leave their own marring. A coating makes the surface far more forgiving of both.
We inspect the paint under proper lighting and measure the clear coat, then tell you what it actually needs.
Iron-fallout treatment and a clay strip, so nothing is ever sealed in under the coating.
Machine polishing in measured stages to remove swirls and etching rather than fill them.
GYEON or ONYX applied panel by panel and cured under cover — in the studio, or in your garage on a mobile job — with the warranty registered.
CDS is mobile across Melbourne's south-east, Ashburton included, and also runs a studio in Berwick (30 km from you) if you would rather drop the car in. Established homes usually have what a mobile job needs - a garage or carport, power and water - so most work here can be done on site while you get on with the day. Mention your parking set-up when you enquire and Andy will say honestly which way gives the better result.
Usually. We measure the clear coat first, because a previous heavy polish may have taken some of it. If there is enough left, holograms and buffer trails can be refined out; if there is not, we will tell you before starting.
For a garaged car where the look in direct sun matters most we generally lean GYEON for its clarity; for a car that does real kilometres, ONYX 10H graphene for durability. Often either is a good answer and we will say so.
It sharpens it. A properly corrected and coated finish reads deeper and glossier, and it stops the flat, hazy look paint gets as it oxidises.