From swirl removal to a multi-year graphene coating, Prahran cars are looked after two ways: mobile, at your place, or at our Berwick studio roughly 37 km up the road.
In Prahran most cars live in a basement stacker or on the street, and almost nobody has a hose. That changes how a car gets cleaned - automatic washes and quick wipe-downs replace a proper hand wash - and it shows in the paint as swirls long before the car is old.
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 Prahran is exactly what gets done.
Around Pran Central, Prahran station and Cabrini Prahran.
Stop-start inner-city driving loads the front wheels with hot brake dust that bakes into the finish. Coated wheels release it with a rinse.
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.
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 Prahran and from the Berwick studio, which is about 37 km from you, so it is your choice. 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. Either way it is the same person, the same products and the same registered warranty.
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.
Yes. That is rail or brake dust embedded in the clear coat. It is dissolved with an iron treatment and clayed out, then the paint is sealed so it has a much harder time coming back.