Every defect on the car gets a code. The plan we hand you names each one and pairs it with the stage required to remove it.
Wash-induced micro-marring. Almost every car older than its first wash.
Rotary buffer trails from a previous detailer who skipped the finishing pass.
Branches, fingernails, brush bristles. Anything below the clear-coat depth.
Minerals burned into clear-coat after sitting in the sun. Needs wet-sanding or compounding.
Factory or repaint texture. Wet-sanded flat, then refined.
Coarse sandpaper trails on a repaint. Refined out before coating.
The session is built from what the test panel reveals. Most cars sit comfortably in the two-stage bracket. Hard paint, repaints, and concours work move up.
One product, one pad. Lifts swirl marks and light marring. Used on soft paint or as a refresh between major sessions.
Compound cut, then refine. Removes 90 to 95% of defects that don't require wet-sanding. The standard session for a five-year-old daily driver.
Wet-sanding by hand on the panels that need it, then compound, polish, refine. Concours-level finish; reserved for collector cars and pre-coating prep on hard paint.
Defelsko PosiTest reading on every panel, logged to the session document. We don't cut on a panel whose total film build is under 80 μm.
Sun-spectrum and tungsten passes. Each defect identified by code and depth class. Customer signs the plan before any pad is opened.
Smallest viable abrasive on a test patch. Reading taken before and after. The whole session is built around what the test panel says, not what the brochure says.
Cross-hatched passes at controlled speed and pressure. Pad swapped every two panels. Paint thickness rechecked at the end of every panel.
Lighter abrasive, finer pad. Cross-checked under three lighting conditions: daylight, tungsten, and a brinkman. No hologram passes the brinkman pass.
Panel wipe, IPA wipe, panel wipe. Final inspection in daylight at the bay door. Customer walks the car with us before keys move.
Thirty minutes at the studio. Paint readings, defect photographs, written quote. The session it points to may be one stage; it may be three. Either way, the number we send is the number on the invoice.