From swirl removal to a multi-year graphene coating, Carrum Downs cars are looked after two ways: mobile, at your place, or at our Berwick studio roughly 16 km up the road.
If your paint in Carrum Downs still feels rough straight after a wash, that is bonded industrial fallout - tiny metal particles corroding into the clear coat. It needs dissolving out chemically, not scrubbing, which is core CDS work.
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 Carrum Downs is exactly what gets done.
Around Carrum Downs Shopping Centre, Daisy's Garden Centre and Gathercoles Meat Works.
Cars left in an industrial car park all day take the full dose. A coating is what stops the contamination bonding while you are at work.
Airborne metal particle lands on the bonnet, roof and boot and corrodes into the clear coat as tiny orange specks. It is dissolved with an iron treatment, then clayed out.
Spray booths and fabrication shops release paint mist that drifts onto cars in nearby car parks. It bonds hard and is removed without cutting the paint down.
Trucks and machinery leave an oily diesel film on everything around them. It makes a car look dirty two days after a wash because it re-sticks to bare paint.
You get a straight assessment of what the paint needs, and what it does not.
Wash, iron treatment and clay, so the surface is genuinely clean before it is corrected.
Swirls, holograms and etching are levelled out by machine, measured as we go.
A certified coating, a proper cure, a registered warranty and a simple wash routine.
Andy works mobile in Carrum Downs and from the Berwick studio, which is about 16 km from you, so it is your choice. Work vehicles and fleets can be done at your workplace or depot so they are not off the road for a drop-off; private cars at home or in the studio, whichever is easier. Either way it is the same person, the same products and the same registered warranty.
The environment will keep putting it there, but on coated paint it struggles to bond and most of it comes off in a normal wash.
No. Fallout is metal particle that corrodes into the clear coat; overspray is paint or similar material that bonds on top. They are removed differently, which is why we assess before touching the paint.
If it is left long enough to pit the clear coat, some marks may need correction and a few can be too deep to remove fully. Caught early, it comes out cleanly.