From swirl removal to a multi-year graphene coating, Kalorama cars are looked after two ways: mobile, at your place, or at our Berwick studio roughly 25 km up the road.
Driving out of Kalorama means winding roads, dappled shade and a car that is never quite dry. Sap etches, leaf stain marks light paint, and the damp gives everything longer to bite. Sealing the paint is what stops it keying in.
There is no sales team and no subcontracting. Andy assesses, corrects and coats every car from Kalorama himself, with more than thirty years on paint behind him, and will tell you honestly if a job is not worth doing.
Around Kalorama Park.
Fog and damp leave a film on the windscreen that makes wet-weather and night driving harder. Coated glass stays clearer and sheds water.
Gum sap is sticky and acidic. On a warm day it sets hard and etches a ring into the clear coat that no wash will remove.
Wet leaves sitting in the scuttle panel, on the roof or in door shuts leave brown tannin stains, especially on white and silver paint.
Shade keeps the car wet for longer after rain and morning fog, which gives sap, droppings and fallout far more time to bite.
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 Kalorama and from the Berwick studio, which is about 25 km from you, so it is your choice. In the hills it is the damp and the tree canopy. A coating cannot cure under dripping trees, so a mobile job needs a garage or a good carport - otherwise the studio keeps it dry. Either way it is the same person, the same products and the same registered warranty.
More than almost anywhere else. Shade, damp and sap are exactly the conditions a coating is built to handle.
Yes, and in the hills it is one of the most useful things we do - coated glass sheds fog and rain far better.
We clean, decontaminate and coat wheels. Kerb damage to the rim itself is a wheel-repair job, and we will point you to someone good.