Scratch removal and machine polishing in Maida Vale

Reading a scratch before touching it

Paint is layers: colour underneath, a clear protective coat on top. Most marks that look alarming, the spiderweb swirls under a streetlight, the dull patch where something acidic sat, the faint lines a cover leaves on a stored car, never get past the clear coat, and machine polishing removes a precisely measured sliver of it to take the damage away. The fingernail test settles the question in a second: a mark your nail glides over is a polishing job, a mark it catches in needs a body shop, and we are happy to tell you which is which from a photo before you book anything.

Corrected paint should not leave the kerb naked

Our scratch removal ships inside the 2 year Ceramic Coating on purpose. Freshly polished lacquer is thinner and more exposed than it has ever been, and in tree-heavy W9 the fallout starts working on it immediately. Correct then coat means the swirls leave and a two-year shield arrives in the same visit, for one fixed price.

When the complaint is texture rather than scratches, paint that grips your palm, tar freckles, a film no wash shifts, that is bonded contamination, and cutting it with a polisher would be the wrong tool. The Exterior Detail's clay and decontamination treatment lifts it without thinning anything.

The W9 defect diet

Maida Vale's cars collect a particular set of marks: swirls from years of hurried washes, etch rings under the canal planes, cover lines on the classics dozing along the crescents, and mystery scuffs from tight parallel parking between mansion blocks. The first three polish out beautifully. The fourth depends on depth, and we will always say so honestly at the car.