From swirl removal to a multi-year graphene coating, Mentone cars are looked after two ways: mobile, at your place, or at our Berwick studio roughly 25 km up the road.
Cars in Mentone deal with the pace of a busy centre: stop-start traffic, crowded car parks and street parking where every passing car and bike brushes a little closer than it should. Most of what that does to paint is surface damage, and surface damage can be corrected.
There is no sales team and no subcontracting. Andy assesses, corrects and coats every car from Mentone himself, with more than thirty years on paint behind him, and will tell you honestly if a job is not worth doing.
Around Thrift Park Shopping Centre, Mentone station and Mentone Centre.
Stop-start driving loads wheels with hot brake dust that bakes into the finish. Coated wheels release it with a rinse.
Without a garage there is no shelter from sun, sap or droppings. That is precisely when a sealed surface earns its keep.
Busy people wash quickly. Quick washing is what puts swirl marks into paint, and it is fully correctable.
Pigeons and street trees mean frequent direct hits. Acidic droppings etch fast in summer; coated paint lets them wipe off.
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 Mentone and from the Berwick studio, which is about 25 km from you, so it is your choice. It comes down to parking. With a garage or an undercover space and access to power, mobile works well. If the car lives on the street, the studio is the better place for a coating to cure. Either way it is the same person, the same products and the same registered warranty.
We work seven days by appointment, mobile or in the studio, and will give you a realistic time window when you book.
That is when it is most worth it. Kerbside paint has no shelter, and a coating stops sun, droppings and traffic film from getting into the clear coat.
Usually. Transfer from another car or a pole sits on top of the paint and polishes off. If a scratch is through the clear coat we will tell you before quoting.