Services
Below you will find descriptions of some examples of Levels of Detail.
These were made to provide you with some idea what can be done and should serve as a guide. Each job is specifically tailored to your particular needs and the scope adjusted to suit your brief size and condition of your car. After the detail is done I can provide regular maintenance detail to keep your motorcar looking it's best at all times. This will be at much reduced price compared to full detail. I use two stage filtered water, best performing premium products and each job is done using freshly washed (in 90C ) cleaning cloths and tools. I wear a mask when doing interiors (for my protection from chemicals and your protection in the time of pandemic) and disposable gloves, new for each job. All to give you additional peace of mind in these trying times. Mobile services can also be arranged.
Basic External Detail £45
-Snow Foam Pre-Wash body, wheels, arches, underbody. Car must be dry to maximise effectiveness of this stage. Allow it to dwell and break down coarse dirt.
-Jet Wash 1 will remove all Snow Foam agitated coarse dirt and contaminants preventing common paintwork damage by contact washing and scrubbing the paintwork with dirt.
-Shampoo Wash & Wax with soft mitt. This stage removes the remaining contaminates and conditions the paintwork with protective layer of wax. Long pile microfibre towel drying. Windows wiped with short pile microfibre towel to remove any small streaking or water spots
-touchless blow dry of inaccessible areas and door shuts to prevent streaking caused by dripping water
Basic Interior Detail £30
-Remove all lose items and store in a container
-remove floor mats, vacuum, spray with interior carpet cleaner, cloth wipe, vacuum
-vacuum fabric/leather upholstery, wipe with cloth sprayed with interior cleaner
-wipe down interior hard surface with cloth sprayed with interior cleaner
Basic Engine Bay Detail £25
-high velocity air blow-cleaning of engine bay
-vacuum clean all accessible areas
-cover all electrical items
-spray engine bay specialist cleaner , allow to dwell but not dry
-low pressure jet wash
Pro External Detail £145
Wash
-Snow Foam Pre-Wash body, wheels, arches, underbody. Allow it to dwell and break down coarse dirt.
-Jet Wash 1 will remove all Snow Foam agitated coarse dirt and contaminants preventing common paintwork damage by contact washing and scrubbing the paintwork with dirt.
-Clean all wheels & arches, windows, rubbers, plastics, grills, etc with various sizes/types of brushes and APC (All Purpose Cleaner)
-Jet wash 2 removes any remaining loose dirt
-Shampoo Wash with soft mitt to remove any remaining road film
-Touchless blow dry to prepare paintwork for decontamination
-Iron fall out decontamination - this step only works if paintwork is completely clean and dry. Iron fall out refers to iron and steel particles coming from breaking systems and embedding themselves in the clear coat. It starts to oxidise (rust), increase its volume and break up the clear coat.
-Jet Wash 3 removes
-Tar removal decontamination. Those little black "spots" on your paint work are not only rather unattractive but cannot be removed by washing. Only specialist tar removal products can do it. Run your hand over your paintwork. If you can feel anything it means your paint requires decontamination!
-Shampoo Wash with soft mitt to remove chemical compounds from Tar Removal stage
-Jet Wash 4
-Touchless blow dry to prepare paintwork for Strip Wash
-Strip Wash (removal of old waxes and protection layers). This is step is critical to ensure FSP (Final Stage Protection) adheres properly to virgin clear coat providing long lasting protection and hydrophobicity.
Paintwork Protect
-paint protection using hybrid ceramic wax - these type of latest products offer ease of application combined with ceramic coating durability and water repellency properties.
-dress plastic, rubbers & tyres with specialist compounds "nourishing" plastic and rubber elements restoring blackness (these are not pigmented, short lived products) by replenishing oxidised top layers with fresh chemicals. This achieves long lasting effect.
-Windows cleaned externally with specialist, highly effective polishing cleaner.
Pro Internal Detail £75
-Remove all lose items and store in a container
-remove floor mats, vacuum clean, wet shampoo & microfibre clean, wet vacuum dry
-vacuum fabric upholstery, wet shampoo & microfibre clean, wet vacuum dry
-leather upholstery cleaned with specialist cleaners and left to dry out. When dry specialist leather balm conditioners used to replenish natural oils removed during cleaning process ensuring leather stays supple and soft.
-boot vacuum clean and wipe down
-plastics and screens cleaned and wiped down with soft microfibre towel sprayed with interior cleaner, trims and plastics treated with dressing conditioner
-Door & boot reveals basic cleaned
Pro Engine Bay Detail £35
-vacuum clean all accessible areas, high velocity & high-pressure air dusting
-cover all electrical items
-spray engine bay with specialist cleaner and wipe down with microfibre cloth
-low pressure jet wash
-spray on dressing and wipe down with microfibre cloth
Master External Detail £450
Wash
-Snow Foam Pre-Wash body, wheels, arches, underbody. Allow it to dwell and break down coarse dirt.
-Jet Wash 1 - removes all Snow Foam agitated coarse dirt and contaminants preventing common paintwork damage by contact washing and scrubbing the paintwork with dirt.
-Deep clean wheels & arches, windows, rubbers, plastics, grills, etc with various sizes of brushes and APC (All Purpose Cleaner)
-Jet Wash 2 - removes the loose dirt
-Optional Deep Steam Cleaning of external trims, seals, hard to access areas £15
-Shampoo Wash with soft mitt to remove and remaining road film
-Jet Wash 3
-Touchless blow dry to prepare paintwork for decontamination
-Iron fall out decontamination - this step only works if paintwork is completely clean and dry. Iron fall out refers to iron and steel particles coming from breaking systems and embedding themselves in the clear coat. It starts to oxidise (rust), increase its volume and break up the clear coat.
-Jet Wash 4 removes iron fall out cleaning chemicals and debris
-Tar removal decontamination. Those little black "spots" on your paint work are not only rather unattractive but cannot be removed by washing. Only specialist tar removal products can do it. Run your hand over your cleaned paintwork. If you can feel anything it means your paint requires decontamination :)
-Shampoo Wash with soft mitt to remove chemical compounds from Tar Removal stage
-Jet Wash 5 to remove all debris in preparation for Clay Bar
-Clay Bar Depp Clean of Paintwork - clay bar cleaning can only be done if machine polishing follows as it is aggressive enough to cause micro scratches and marring. These in turn have to be polished out with DA Machine Polish stage
-Jet Wash 6 to remove any clay bar cleaning residues
-Touchless blow dry to prepare paintwork for Strip Wash
-Strip Wash (removal of old waxes and protection layers). This is step is critical to ensure FSP (Final Stage Protection) adheres properly to virgin clear coat providing long lasting protection and hydrophobicity.
-High velocity air blow dry
Paintwork Correct & Protect
Paint work assessment, options discussed, repairs if necessary advised. Only when Paintwork is depp cleaned and virgin all the defects are clearly visible and can be assessed. Deep scratched (your finger nail catches on them) can be nade less prominent by localised gentle wet sanding. This process will round off the edges of such scratches severley reducing light bounce angle and as a result making them very much less visible. Scratches going through clear coat will require full repair removing them entirely. We will discuss all the options with you before any work is undertaken as it would require a separate booking. If you decide to go with the repairs the Master Detail will be put on pause but completed when the repairs are finished. It takes approx 7 days for modern clear coats to fully harden. We will apply spray on protection on your freshly cleaned paintwork before you leave of course! If no repairs are desired or needed we keep going.
-Paint gauge used to check the paint thickness. If too low no paint correction will be performed and protection only applied with the corresponding price reduction.
-3-stage DA polish removing scratches, marring and oxidisation.
-APC spray & microfibre wash & dry to degrease and remove polishing compounds/oils residue
-Panel wipe - specialist panel wipes are used (paint shops use them before spraying paint on) to ensure the best possible contact of protection products with the paintwork.
-Paint protection of choice - natural waxes like carnauba provide deep shine and excellent water repellency but do not last long, hybrid solutions like hybrid ceramic waxes are fully synthetic solutions which provide ease of application (no need for curing) and very long lasting protection 9-12months. The lates revolutionary products are hybrid graphene coatings which provide unrivalled protection by covering your car with nano-coating of graphene particles. They provide protection from environmental chemical pollutants as well as UV rays. No need to cure either and they offer long lasting protection of approx 12 months or longer if multiple (optional) layers are applied if you wish.
-Dress plastic, rubbers with specialist compounds "nourishing" plastic and rubber elements restoring blackness (these are not pigmented, short lived products) by replenishing oxidised layers with fresh chemistry. This achieves long lasting effect.
-Windows cleaned externally with specialist, highly effective polishing cleaner.
Master Interior Detail £175
-Remove all lose items and store
-Remove floor mats, hoover, wet shampoo & brush, wet vacuum dry, blow dry
-Vacuum fabric upholstery, wet shampoo & brush, wet vacuum dry, blow dry
-High velocity air blow of interior followed by final vacuum clean- it always surprises me how much debris is still blown out from different crevices even after the most detailed vacuum clean!
-Leather upholstery cleaned (most stains will be removed) with specialist cleaners and various soft brushes. After it dries it is treated with specialist leather conditioners
-Optional Deep Steam Cleaning £15 - especially for cars with pet passengers or heavily soiled and stained interiors
-Clean all plastics, vents, screens, indicator stalks, trims with various brushes down to ear bud size. Wipe down and treat with dressing conditioner.
-Door & boot reveals cleaned inc. hinges, recesses, rubber & plastic elements. These parts of most cars are almost never cleaned but have surprisingly high impact on overall perception of cleanliness.
-Boot cleaning inc. vacuum, shampoo and wet vacuum dry, hard surfaces cleaned and conditioned
-Air Conditioning Sanitizing - it will remove this particular "air conditioning smell"
-Ozone machine treatment - non-toxic and non invasive biocidal treatment removing the odours at the source by killing bacteria and fungi
Master Engine Bay Detail £75
-vacuum clean all accessible areas, high velocity & high-pressure air dusting
-cover all electrical items
-optional steam cleaning £10
-spray engine bay (inc. underside of the bonnet) with specialist cleaner and agitate with various brushes
-low pressure jet wash
-spray-on dressing & buff of all plastics, rubbers & body work within engine bay
Master Ceramic Coating £POA
SiOx based paint protection systems or Ceramic Coatings are the most resilient type of automotive bodywork protection available on the market. They provide substantial scratch protection (they will NOT make your car scratch proof, you need self healing clear vinyl wrapping for that!) and unrivalled environmental contaminates and UV protection. They also last anything from 2 to 6 years depending on the product, number of layers and quality of application.
There is one catch though.
This type of protection is very difficult to apply and require substantial preparation and time to do it. Therefore they are not cheap but I dare to say very good value for money.
Please get in touch for individual quotation.
Master Alloy Wheel Restoration and Ceramic Coat £250 / 4 wheels
Alloy wheels are probably the best suited parts of any car to receive professional ceramic coating. When correctly applied the difference ceramic coating makes to regular wheel cleaning has to simply be experienced to be believed. To successfully apply ceramic coating wheels have to be in their best condition. If they are badly kerbed with substantial amounts of aluminium corrosion the best option is to get them stripped and powder coated by specialist wheel restoration companies. Everything else I can deal with :)
-Remove wheel
-Multistage clean, decontamination (iron fall out and tar removal), clay bar deep clean
-If required delicate (2000grit and up) wet sand the entire wheel to remove deeply embedded contaminants no other method is able to remove. Wet sanding doesn't damage the wheel or remove clear coat and when machine polished with specialist tools it achieves better than new results
-Machine polish of the wheel using specialist attachments
-IPA clean and Ceramic Coating application using specialist wheel ceramic coating systems
-wheel needs to cure for 24 hrs so this job is best suited when you don't need a car for the weekend or have a set of winter wheels you can drive on for few days. I remove and install them for you as well. If Master Exterior Detail is chosen tis will be done concurrently so you could pick your car up all done.
Minor Bodywork and Paintwork Repairs - price depending on the scope
Small dents pulling, deep scratches, peeling clear coat - these defects are unfeasible to have them repaired at professional body shops or through insurance due to cost and resulting increase in insurance premiums. I would be happy to have a look and see if I can help you with these issues. I use all the professional body shop techniques/tools and manufacturer paint systems ensuring as close paint match as possible. You can send photos or videos of the damage initially for me to have the first look on-line. Such repairs should be done as soon as possible since untreated they may lead to corrosion and progressive damage.
BMW & Mini Servicing
I have been independently working on BMWs for the last 15 years repairing and servicing them. I can offer you the regular car servicing like fluids, filters, spark plugs and brakes. It comes with free error code reading and diagnostic advice as well as CBS (Condition Based Service) reset and ESH (Electronic Service History) update. I don't cut corners, rush jobs or use third rate parts or consumables. If you want all original BMW parts and consumables this is what you will get. If you would rather prefer to use top quality OEM parts and consumables and reduce your servicing costs without compromising on quality and performance I can happily accommodate your preference.
BMW/Mini Servicing - Engine air filter(£20+parts), cabin air filter(£25+parts), engine oil & filter(£45+parts), brake fluid (£55+parts), brake pads(£70+parts), brake discs&pads(£95+parts), spark plugs (£75+parts), all with CBS (service warnings) reset and ESR (Electronic Service Record) updated free of charge. When combined prices are lower depending on what’s required. Parts can be Genuine BMW or top quality OEM (Brembo, Bosch, Febi, Lemforder, Mann, etc.). I also can read fault codes, delete them & diagnose problems.
Please get in touch to discuss your particular needs.