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Stages

Two columns, the same size, because the right one is what causes arguments.

  1. 01

    Maintenance wash and decontamination

    $180

    About 3 hours

    What it fixes

    • Road film, brake dust, and bug residue
    • Bonded iron particles that make paint feel gritty
    • Tar and overspray on the lower panels
    • Wheels, arches, and door shuts

    What it does not

    • Swirl marks — those are scratches, and a wash does not remove scratches
    • Water spot etching that has bitten into the clear coat
    • Anything you can catch a fingernail in
  2. 02

    Single stage paint correction

    $620

    About 8 hours, one full day

    What it fixes

    • Most light swirl marks and wash marring
    • Roughly sixty to seventy percent of visible defects on typical clear coat
    • Dullness from years of automatic car washes

    What it does not

    • Deep scratches through the clear coat
    • Stone chips, which need paint rather than polish
    • Anything on a panel that has been resprayed badly — we will tell you before we start
  3. 03

    Two stage paint correction

    $1,150

    Two days

    What it fixes

    • Heavier swirls and light random deep scratches
    • Eighty to ninety percent of defects on most paint
    • Holograms left by a rotary in the wrong hands

    What it does not

    • One hundred percent of anything. Nobody can, and clear coat is finite.
    • Chips and cracks
    • Anything requiring more clear coat removal than is safe — measured, not guessed
  4. 04

    Ceramic coating, one year

    $420 on top of correction

    Adds a day for curing

    What it fixes

    • Makes washing easier and safer, which is how paint stays corrected
    • Resists chemical etching from bird mess and sap if you get to it reasonably soon

    What it does not

    • Scratches. A coating is not armour and it does not prevent swirls from a bad wash.
    • Stone chips
    • The need to wash the car
  5. 05

    Ceramic coating, three year

    $860 on top of correction

    Adds a day for curing

    What it fixes

    • The same, with more durability and more gloss
    • Includes one free maintenance wash a year for three years

    What it does not

    • Scratches, chips, or the need to wash it
    • Anything if the car goes back through an automatic wash — that undoes it faster than weather does
  6. 06

    Interior deep clean

    $340

    About 5 hours

    What it fixes

    • Carpets and cloth extracted, not just vacuumed
    • Leather cleaned and conditioned
    • Vents, seams, seat rails, and the places a valet skips
    • Most smells, once the source is out

    What it does not

    • Permanent dye transfer on light leather
    • Cigarette smoke that has been in the headliner for years — improved, not removed
    • Tears, splits, and worn bolsters, which are a trimmer's job

Prices and times are examples pending confirmation. No manufacturer accreditation is claimed and no coating lifetime is promised beyond what is written above.

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