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Precision auto detailing in White Rock

Paint correction, ceramic coating and interior work, out to South Surrey. The price comes before you hand over the keys.

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Detailing services

Four different jobs. Here's what each one fixes, and what it won't.

Paint correction

Park in direct sun and look down the hood. Those fine swirls are wash marks, and only a machine takes them out. One-stage clears the light stuff. Two-stage cuts deeper, then refines: the difference between paint that looks clean and paint that looks wet. Anything you can catch a fingernail on won't come out, and we'll say so first.

  • Wash, iron remover and clay first
  • Trim, badges and rubber taped off
  • Checked panel by panel under a raking light
  • Sealed or coated when the paint is right

Ceramic coating

If the car lives outside you know how this goes: it rains, the sun comes out for an hour, and every flat panel is spotted. A coating cures hard over the clear coat so water sheets off instead of drying on it. It locks the paint in as-is, so polishing comes first. It won't stop a rock chip.

  • Full decontamination and clay
  • Correction before anything goes on
  • Cured indoors before pickup
  • Aftercare sheet so it actually lasts

Interior and steam cleaning

Kids, a dog, or a coffee that went over on the 99. Steam gets into vents, seat seams and seatbelt webbing where a cloth can't, using very little water, so the car isn't damp for two days. Marks that are dye rather than dirt will only lift partway, and you'll hear that before we start.

  • Vacuum, then compressed air through the seams
  • Steam on vents, buttons, belts and buckles
  • Leather cleaned and conditioned
  • Glass done inside, including the top of the windshield

Exterior detail

Run your hand over the paint after a wash. If it still feels gritty, that's bonded fallout, and washing won't shift it. Two buckets, a clean mitt per section, wheels before paint, then iron remover and clay, which after a winter of road grit and salt off the bay it usually needs.

  • Pre-rinse, foam, then a hand wash
  • Wheels, barrels and wheel wells
  • Bug and tar removal
  • Dried and blown out so nothing drips later

Pick a level

Most people land on the middle one. If you're not sure which fits, say what you're driving and we'll tell you which your car actually needs.

Maintenance wash

For a car that's already sorted, and you want to keep it that way.

  • Hand wash, wheels and tires
  • Interior vacuum and wipe-down
  • Glass and door jambs
  • Sealant topped up
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Most booked

Full detail

For the car that's had a hard year.

  • Everything in the maintenance wash
  • Iron decontamination and clay
  • Steam through the whole interior
  • Leather, carpets and trim brought back
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Correction and coating

For paint you actually care about.

  • Full decontamination and correction
  • Ceramic coating, cured indoors
  • Wheel faces coated so brake dust rinses off
  • Interior detailed while the paint cures
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Every car is priced on the car, because a hatchback that lives in a garage and a truck that lives on a job site are not the same job. Tell us what you have and you get the number before you book.

Cars we've had in

Every photo is a car that came through the shop. No stock images, no borrowed portfolio.

How a job runs

  1. 01

    Walk around

    We look at the car with you in good light and quote from what is actually there, not from a form.

  2. 02

    Decontamination

    Wash, iron remover, clay. Polishing a panel that still has grit on it puts in more scratches than it takes out.

  3. 03

    Correction

    Machine work, one panel at a time, re-checked under a raking light before moving on.

  4. 04

    Protection

    Sealant or coating goes on last, over paint that is already right. Coated cars cure indoors.

  5. 05

    Handover

    We walk the car with you under the same light we worked under. Anything we missed goes back in.

Vehicles your customers see

A work van is a business card doing 60 on King George. Nobody is asking for show paint on it — they are asking that it doesn't look like it has been parked on a job site since March, and that cleaning it doesn't cost a driver half a shift. So we book around your hours and work through several vehicles a visit.

  • Scheduled rounds, weekly or monthly
  • Per-vehicle rates with volume pricing
  • Contractors, property management, dealer lots
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A Ford Bronco detailed by Obsessed Details in an underground parkade

What's different here

A name on the work

Alex quotes the car, does the car, and hands it back. There is one person to ask, and it is the person who did the work.

The number before the car comes in

You get a price up front. If the walk-around changes it, you get a phone call about it, not a bigger invoice at pickup.

We'll talk you out of the expensive one

If your paint doesn't need a two-stage, we'll quote the one-stage and tell you why. Selling somebody the wrong service costs more than it makes.

Before you book

How long does a full car detail take?

Depends what you booked and how bad it is. A maintenance wash is a couple of hours. A full interior and exterior on a car nobody has cleaned in a year runs most of a day. Paint correction is longer again, and you get the hours when we quote, not after.

Is ceramic coating worth it?

If you keep your cars a long time, yes. It makes the paint slick, so dirt lets go with less scrubbing and water sheets off instead of drying into spots. It seals in whatever the paint looks like that day, so polishing comes first. And 9H means hardness, not nine years.

What's the difference between one-stage and two-stage paint correction?

Passes. One-stage is a single machine pass with a polish that cuts a little and finishes clean, and it clears light swirls and wash marks. Two-stage cuts first with a compound and a heavier pad, then refines with a fine polish to remove the haze the cut leaves behind. Two-stage costs more because it takes far longer.

Does polishing damage your paint?

Polishing removes clear coat. A small amount, measured in microns, and a factory panel can take it several times over a car's life. Done badly it burns through on an edge, and that's a repaint. So we work conservatively, and on thin or already-polished paint we back off rather than chase one scratch.

Can you get dog hair out of car seats?

Usually all of it, sometimes not quite. Hair woven down into cloth comes out with a rubber brush and a lot of patience, and that time goes into the quote. Same story with spills: fresh ones lift, old ones that have dyed the fibre may only fade. We'll tell you which yours is.

Do you come to me or do I come to you?

Correction and coating have to happen indoors. Dust settling on wet coating, wind, direct sun on a panel you are polishing: any of it wrecks the result. Washes and interior work are more flexible. Tell us where the car is and what you are after, and we will tell you what works.

Book the car in

Tell us what you're driving and what's bugging you about it. You'll get a price and a date back, usually the same day.

Where we are

White Rock, British Columbia

Serving White Rock, South Surrey, Surrey and the rest of Metro Vancouver out to Langley.

Hours

Mon–Fri 8am–6pm
Sat 9am–5pm
Sun 10am–4pm
Year, make and model, if you know it.
Optional. Scratches, pet hair, a spill, a car that's been sitting.