Car Detailing - Paint Correction
Prestige Tint offers luxury car detailing in London including paint correction and enhancement. Vehicle detailing and paint correction is a comprehensive and thorough process that combines cleaning and restoration to enhance the appearance of a car or van and protect its surfaces.
Car Detailing London
Our West London based vehicle detailing services go way beyond a simple car wash by addressing both the exterior and interior components rigorusly. The goal of detailing is to restore the vehicle’s aesthetics and maintain its condition over time. Our vehicle detailing services include the following key features:
MAINTENANCE / NEW CAR DETAIL
Unfortunately, a new car rarely leaves the showroom with adequate protection as well as the perfect paintwork finish. In fact, a brand new car is not always as new as one would think; the vehicle is usually subject to various contaminants in the air during transportation and storage times. After which, once the vehicle has arrived at the dealership, the vehicle is commonly subject to a quick wash with a dirty sponge and chamois which will in turn inflict more damage to the paintwork.
For this reason, our Maintenance / New Car Detail has been introduced. The purpose of a Maintenance / New Car Detail is to decontaminate and protect the paintwork
- Prestige Multi Stage Safe Wash using PH Neutral Shampoo & two guard bucket system to prevent any stones, contaminants being carried onto the car via the wash mitt
- Hand dried using the Prestige safe-dry process
- Wheels are cleaned using a nonacidic citrus-based cleaner
- Door Shuts, petrol caps, arches all cleaned where accessible)
- Glass and paintwork decontamination process (removes in-bedded contaminants and impurities/pollution)
- Tyres conditioned and protected with special tyre preserve
- Paintwork is treated with a clay bar to remove any bonded contaminants
- Special solvents are applied to dissolve and remove tar and road grime
- Exterior vinyl and rubber trim treated with vitamin rich conditioner
Protection
- A Layer of our preferred high grade carnauba wax/sealant is applied to the paint, ensuring a level of protection
Interior
- Interior Detailed
- All interior windows, rear view mirror and vanity mirrors cleansed with smear free finish
A typical New Vehicle Detail will take one full day with the average cost of £595+vat and it also includes one hours worth of Paint Correction.
ENHANCEMENT DETAIL
This is an entry level treatment which will greatly enhance the look and feel of your car. After the initial 24 step wash process the vehicle paintwork is decontaminated by claying which will extract the imbedded contaminates not otherwise removed from normal washing. Once the decontamination process has been completed, the vehicle is then put through a minor paint correction process. This will remove approximately 70-80% of the swirl marks and light scratches which will greatly enhance the overall condition and appearance of the paintwork.
Paint Correction
- Paintwork correction process is the removal of common paint problems, such as scratches, bird stains, swirl marks, buffer marks, micro-marring, orange peel, cob-webbing and hologram effects. This is carried out by re-levelling the laquer. so that the paintwork reflects light perfectly at all angles
Following on from the paint correction stages the vehicle will be given another wash and then the paintwork will be sealed with a durable protective coating. Detailing Paint Correction.
An Enhancement details for a small sized vehicle is approximately 20 hours and prices start from £650+vat.
CORRECTION DETAIL
A very popular and comprehensive treatment suited to the discerning car enthusiast. The car is treated with our custom 33 step wash procedure after which it goes through various processes in preparation for the grand finale carnauba wax.
After the initial wash the paintwork is decontaminated by claying which will extract imbedded contaminates not otherwise removed from normal washing. Once the decontamination process has been completed, the vehicle will undergo an extensive paint correction process which is remove approximately 90-95% of the swirls and scratches in the paintwork. There will be a huge improvement in the way that the paintwork appears and in most cases the vehicles will look better than brand new!
- Paintwork is treated to a three-stage paint correction process to eliminate defects including medium swirl marks and holograms. Panels are alcohol wiped after every stage to ensure true correction.
- Exhaust tips are rejuvenated with specially designed metal compounds.
- Glass is treated with nano polish.
Protection
- Two layers pf our special natural Carnauba Wax is applied to the paintwork, which will give your vehicle extraordinary depth of shine and protection.
- (Optional) Ceramic Coating can be applied
Interior
- Interior Detailed
- All interior windows, rear view mirror and vanity mirrors cleansed with smear free finish
- Carpets are shampooed if necessary and dried using a wet suction vacuum cleaner.
- All leather surfaces are cleansed and protected. Air vents, button surrounds, and fascia are cleaned using specialized brushes.
A Correction treatment will typically take approximately 25 hours of work time to perform and prices start from £895.
ULTIMATE DETAIL
We have developed this detail for the distinguished car enthusiast.
This treatment covers virtually all aspects of detailing on the three main areas of the motor vehicle.
The first is the exterior surfaces of the motor vehicle, the vehicle is subjected to a Paintwork Correction process in conjunction to a Correction Detail. In addition to this all the external plastics are coated with a special UV crystalline coating, which will keep it well protected. All the windows are also sealed with a high durability rain repellent. The vehicle’s door shuts will also be paint corrected and sealed. The wheels will also be coated with a durable wheel sealant, which will help repel brake dust and ensure quick and easy future cleaning.
The second main stage of the detail is that the engine will also be treated to a full clean and finally protected with a ceramic coating. This will ensure the engine to not only look like new but it will also stay cleaner for longer due to the protection applied to it.
The final stage will include the interior to be fully detailed. This will include all a Wet Vac and Steam treatment including the boot space. The carpets and mats will then be deep cleaned using specialist medical grade equipment, which will disinfect and kill harmful bacteria. All internal leather, glass, plastics, and other surfaces will be cleaned and conditioned.
The final results are truly mind blowing.
- Door shuts are cleansed.
- Wheels are removed, cleaned on the inside and cleansed, then all wheel nuts are torque set to the correct manufacturer’s specifications.
- Wheels are cleansed, polished, and sealed inside and out.
- Engine bay is detailed.
PAINT CORRECTION – 95%-99% CORRECTION FACTOR
- Alloy wheels paint corrected.
- Paintwork is treated to a three-to-five stage paint correction process to eliminate defects such as heavy swirl marks, holograms and minor scratches.
- Deeper surface scratches are leveled using specifically designed finishing papers. Paintwork is checked using a digital microscope in specific areas.
SIGNATURE DETAIL
The most comprehensive detail, a bespoke detailing treatment
The detail includes:
- Vehicle raised and wheels removed
- Wheels, arches, brake components and underbody deep cleansed and sealed.
- Interior parts removed, cleansed and protected
- Extreme multi stage paintwork correction including orange peel removal
- Glass correction
- Plastic correction
- UV coating on all plastic surfaces including underbody parts and engine bay area
- Body panels removed (spoilers, lights etc) for extreme paint correction
- Lights removed and polished
- Engine deep cleansed and protected
- Detailed report and images of full detail
The above components are a brief summary of what is involved but this detail is the absolute pinnacle of automotive detailing, without any stone unturned. This application will take approximately 240 hours of work time.
Paint Distortion (Orange Peel) Removal
The focus of this service is to eliminate the inconsistent, distorted finish found in modern clear coats. Our Signature treatment focuses on improving the factory finish achieving a far superior standard.
The process includes levelling the clear coat (lacquer) using a variety of specialist tools and eliminating the high points found on modern paint systems.
The Signature Detail – Which completely relevels the clear coat, refining and polishing it in five stages. This involves dry sanding, wet sanding, and paint correction. This treatment is perfect for a car you want to keep and cherish for many years.
PPF is an optically clear self-adhesive film with an innovative self-healing top layer, specially developed to protect the paintwork of vehicles. Thanks to its excellent impact-proof properties, it protects your car paint against stone chips, insects, bird droppings and opening car doors. In addition, the film offers protection against vandals who are after your car paint. Superficial scratches in the film can be easily repaired by pouring the film over with warm water or treating it with a hair dryer. Sometimes the hot summer sun is more than enough to repair the light scratches.
- Extra Protection
The car paint remains beautiful and in new condition for longer and is protected against stone chips, salt, insects and other road waste.
- Self-healing
The film will recover easily by heat from the sun, warm water or a hair dryer. Please note that if the film is brushed roughly by, for example, a car wash or washing broom, scratches may arise which have been pressed through the self-healing layer and cannot be repaired.
- Looks fantastic
Paint Protection Film is available in a matte and high gloss finish. Due to our installation technique, the ultra-clear clear film will hardly be visible on the car.
- Guarantee
Xpel PPF has a 10-year warranty from the date of purchase on discoloration (turning yellow), bubbles or other defects due to production errors
- Installation
We have our own design team to custom extend each pattern to protect the car as much as possible.
