Ceramic coating, paint correction and paint protection for Elsternwick 3185 — mobile, at your home or workplace, or at our Berwick studio about 34 km away.
A lot of Elsternwick cars do few kilometres and still look tired, because the damage here comes from how they are stored and cleaned rather than how far they go. Nearly all of it is in the top of the clear coat, which means it can be corrected - and a coating makes the next three years much kinder.
Every Elsternwick booking is handled by Andy himself — owner-operated, 30+ years on paint, and the same standard for a daily driver, a work ute or a weekend car. Tell us the car and what is bothering you and you will get a straight answer.
Around Elsternwick station and Hopetoun Gardens.
Apartment living means the car is cleaned at an automatic wash or not at all. Brush washes are the single biggest cause of swirl marks, and a coating makes the touch-free option actually work.
Steel wheels on steel rails shed fine metal dust that settles on nearby cars and corrodes into the clear coat as tiny rust specks. It is dissolved chemically, never scrubbed.
Plane trees and elms line most streets here. Sap and bird droppings etch within a hot afternoon, and a street-parked car cannot be moved out from under them.
Bumper corners and wheel arches collect paint transfer from tight parks. Transfer sits on top of the paint and usually polishes off; kerbed wheels are a separate repair.
Paint depth readings and a close look under the lights before anything touches the car.
A full wash, then chemical and clay decontamination to strip out what washing leaves behind.
Correction matched to your paint - gentler on soft clear coats, more passes on hard ones.
The coating goes on panel by panel and cures under cover before the car goes back on the road.
Andy is mobile as well as studio-based, so the work can be done at your place in Elsternwick or at the Berwick studio, about 34 km away. Street parking and shared basements are the catch: a coating has to cure dry and under cover, and most body corporates do not allow water or power use in the car park. With a private garage, mobile works; without one, the studio is the better answer. Tell us where the car is kept when you book and you will get a straight answer on which suits the job.
Yes - it is our specialty. Concrete spatter and paint mist are removed without cutting into the clear coat, and we can provide a written assessment if you are claiming against the builder.
Yes. Coated wheels stop brake dust baking on, and coated glass sheds rain and cuts glare, which helps most in inner-city night driving.
More so. Use a touch-free wash rather than a brush wash. On coated paint the dirt is not bonded, so a touch-free wash actually gets the car clean, and the swirls stop accumulating.