Add-ons

Already having the paint corrected? Coat it while it is perfect.

The expensive part of a ceramic coating is the decontamination and polishing underneath it — and if you are booking correction or a full detail, that is already happening. Adding the coating at that moment costs a fraction of booking it as its own job later, and it locks in the finish you just paid for instead of letting six months of washing undo it.

Four to six months of protection instead of six weeks of wax.

A synthetic sealant outlasts a carnauba wax by roughly four times and takes the same ten minutes to apply while the car is already dry and clean. In a climate with summer bug acid and winter salt brine, it is the difference between contamination sitting on top of a barrier and bonding to your clear coat.

The next spill sits on top of the fiber instead of soaking into it.

Applied to carpet and cloth seating immediately after extraction, while the fibers are genuinely clean and open. It gives you the minute or two you need to blot a spill before it becomes a stain. Applied to dirty fabric it seals the dirt in, which is why we only offer it on the back of a shampoo.

A barrier against body oil and denim dye on light-coloured seats.

Light leather turns blue-grey from jeans and tacky from body oil, and both are absorption problems. A protective coating sits on the topcoat and takes the transfer instead, so the seats clean up with a wipe rather than a brush.

Brake dust rinses off instead of baking on.

Wheels take more abuse than any painted panel — hot brake dust is iron that physically embeds into the finish. Coated wheels shed it in a rinse. The tires get a durable dressing at the same time, so they stay satin black for weeks rather than days.

Above about 40 mph you stop needing the wipers.

A hydrophobic coating on the windshield and front side glass beads water off at speed and makes night driving in rain dramatically less tiring. It is one of the few add-ons a customer notices the same evening they collect the car — which is why it is the one people rebook.

Missouri road salt off the frame before it becomes rust.

Salt brine does not rinse off in rain — it wicks into frame rails, brake lines and the seams above the rockers and stays wet. A dedicated undercarriage flush in late winter is the cheapest rust prevention available for a vehicle you intend to keep.

The embedded hair a vacuum physically cannot lift.

Two tiers, because a flat rate is wrong in both directions. Light shedding on the seats and carpet is ten minutes with a rubber tool. Hair woven down into the carpet pile, or more than one animal riding regularly, is an hour or more of hand work with rubber and pumice tools — genuinely the most labor-intensive thing in an interior. Splitting it is what stops the customer with one tidy spaniel subsidizing the one with two huskies.

Everything a smoker touched, cleaned — not just deodorized.

The job an ozone treatment on its own cannot do. Tar films every hard surface, the vents, the headliner and the seat belts, so all of it gets physically cleaned before any deodorizing happens — belts drawn out to their full length, cabin filter checked on the moderate tier and replaced on the heavy one, then an ozone cycle to finish. Ozone alone on a car that still holds the residue buys about a fortnight before the smell is back, which is the single most common complaint about cheap smoke jobs.

Pet, mildew and general odor treated at the source and through the vents.

Run after the interior is clean, with the HVAC on recirculate so the ductwork and evaporator get treated too. Adding it to an interior detail is the version that works — ozone alone on a car that still contains the source buys you about a week. For a smoker’s car this is included in Smoke Decontamination rather than booked separately, because the residue has to come off before the air is worth treating.

Out, cleaned underneath, cleaned itself, and reinstalled.

The carpet under a child seat never gets touched, and the seat itself collects more than anyone wants to think about. We take it out, clean both, and put it back — though we will always ask you to check the belt tension yourself afterwards, because that is your call to make, not ours.

The reason the vents smell, on most cars that smell.

Ten minutes on most vehicles and frequently the actual source of a musty cabin. We charge the part at cost and twenty dollars for the labor, because trying to make money on a filter is how you lose a customer who prices it later.

Stains out of the roof lining without soaking the adhesive.

Headliner is fabric glued to foam board, and saturating it is how a sagging headliner starts. It needs a dry-ish, low-moisture method and patience. That is why it is a separate line rather than something to attempt on any interior with a mark on the roof.