Paint Correction and Ceramic Coating for Ashford

What motorway miles do to paint

Ashford sits on the M20, and a lot of local cars cover serious motorway mileage. That leaves a specific kind of damage: stone chips on the leading edges of the bonnet, mirrors and bumper, tar spotting up the lower panels, and brake dust bonded into the wheels and the paint behind them.

A wash does not touch most of it. Tar and bonded fallout need chemical decontamination to dissolve them, and the fine chipping and marring need assessing panel by panel.

Decontaminate, correct, then protect the leading edges

We decontaminate first to strip tar and bonded brake dust, then measure and correct the paint to remove swirls and light marring. Stone chips themselves cannot be polished out, but correcting the haze around them makes them far less obvious, and a coating stops water sitting in each chip.

For a high-mileage motorway car, a ceramic coating earns its keep: it makes the constant road film far easier to wash off and adds a hard, chemical-resistant layer over the clear coat.

An easy run up the M20

Ashford is a straightforward motorway trip to the studio via the M20. We are a drop-off studio, so leave the car with us and we will give you a realistic timeframe before we start. For heavy chipping we will also tell you honestly when paint protection film is the better answer.