From swirl removal to a multi-year graphene coating, Coldstream cars are looked after two ways: mobile, at your place, or at our Berwick studio roughly 38 km up the road.
Living in Coldstream means a car that works across very different surfaces in a single week: sealed highway, gravel driveways, wet paddock edges and the odd cellar-door car park. Most of what that does to paint is abrasive, and abrasive damage is exactly what a sealed surface resists best.
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 Coldstream is exactly what gets done.
Around North Gateway Shopping Plaza, Coldstream Airport and Glenhurst Park.
Long highway drives at dusk coat the front of the car in insects. The residue is acidic and etches if it is left; coated paint releases it with a gentle wash.
Wet-season mud packs into wheel arches and sills and holds moisture against the metal. It releases far more easily from coated surfaces.
Eucalypts along the valley roads drop sticky, acidic sap that sets hard in the sun and etches a ring into unprotected clear coat.
Working utes and tow vehicles cop mud, feed and gravel rash. Coating the tray, canopy and paint makes the hose-down quick.
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.
Andy works mobile in Coldstream and from the Berwick studio, which is about 38 km from you, so it is your choice. Valley mornings are foggy and the dew is heavy, so a coating has to cure under cover. A shed or garage makes a mobile job straightforward; without one, the studio is the safer choice. Either way it is the same person, the same products and the same registered warranty.
Usually. Fresh residue washes off; older spotting that has etched can normally be polished out. Coating afterwards makes the next lot much easier to deal with.
Yes - paint, trays, canopies, bars and trim. A coated working vehicle takes a fraction of the time to clean.
Soak them rather than scrub them, and do it soon after the drive. On coated paint they barely stick; etched marks can usually be polished out.