Auto Grime Fighters

Standard Wash - Car or SUV - from $100.00

Click here for a link to our Youtube Channel where you can see a standard wash in time lapse.

The standard wash (sometimes called a "maintenance" wash) includes the following:

Clean wheel faces, tyres and wheel arches
Foam exterior
Brush all exterior emblems and crevices (including fuel filler)
Rinse
Wash exterior (2 bucket method)
Rinse and dry exterior
Dress tyres
Wipe down all interior surfaces
Vacuum interior
Clean interior/exterior of windows

The standard wash will take 3 hours minimum, depending on the vehicle's condition. The condition of the vehicle and the overall cost will be discussed with you before work commences. NOTE: We will need access to water and power.

Additional Cost Extras

Apply interior trim treatment - $10.00
Apply Windscreen Rain Repellent - $10.00
Steam Clean Door Jambs - $15.00
Seats, Mats, Boot and Carpet Shampoo - $50.00
Clean inner wheel barrels - $10.00

Larger vehicles (4WD, Twin Cab Utes) attract additional charges

Cut and polish

(Sometimes now referred to as "Paint Correction")

Starts with Standard wash as described above
Vehicle is cleaned with a clay bar
A dual action polisher and a suitable cutting compound are used to remove swirl marks.
A polish of your choice is applied to the vehicle

Please note: A cut and polish will likely take a full day to complete. As there are various protective products on the market, the price may vary depending on the type of treatment applied. At the time of booking, we can discuss the type of treatment you want on your vehicle.

The scope of paint correction.

It is important to understand what can be achieved with a cut and polish. To help with this, we have called on our old "Grimecar" (2004 Toyota Corolla wagon with 290,000 kilometers on it's clock) to show you what is possible. It goes without saying that a car with that many kilometers will have a fair amount of wear and scratches on it's paint work.

Before any paint correction can occur, it is important to know what paint is present on the car. Most modern cars shoud have between 100 and 150 microns in coating depth (primer, base and clear). To this end, a coating depth gauge is a necessary tool. Generally, I will not try to correct paint under 100 microns.

You can click any of the images below for a better look.

This is the drivers side of the Corolla. These deep scratches are on the driver's door.

This is the drivers side of the Corolla. There are various lighter scratches on the paint.

Lighter scratches on driver's side of car

Drivers side of the Corolla - most scratches gone.

This is the roof of the Corolla with half of it compounded. Much improved over the un-treated area. Not perfect, but much improved.

To effect paint correction, you are basically removing some of the protective clear coat that has been applied to the base coat. It is therefore essential that a suitable protective coating is applied after the paint correction process. That is where the "polish" part of the cut and polish is important. At a minimum, we will use a wax product for this purpose.