Before and after

Real jobs we have done across the Triangle. Click through for full details on each one.

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  Toyota 4Runner X-Series — Showroom Shine

  A 4Runner is a working vehicle and usually lives outside. Body-on-frame SUVs collect dirt in places a sedan never does: roof rails, the channel behind the rear hatch trim, wheel arches, and the textured cladding that runs the lower body. The paint is often the easiest part of the job.

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  Jaguar XF – Stunning Jet Black Finish

  Jet black is the least forgiving paint made. Every wash-induced scratch, every towel that was not clean, every automatic tunnel the car ever went through shows up in direct sun as a spiderweb across the hood and doors. A black car that reflects cleanly has not been lucky. It has been corrected and then maintained carefully.

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  Pristine Honda Accord Hybrid — Full Exterior Detail

  This is the most common car we work on in the Triangle, and the most common condition: a commuter with real mileage, a clean interior, and paint carrying two or three years of highway film its owner stopped noticing. The change on a car like this is usually larger than the owner expects.

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  Mercedes CLA-Class — Pristine Exterior Detail

  Compact German sedans present a specific combination: hard clear coat that resists correction, a lot of bright trim and glossy black exterior detailing, and tight panel gaps that hold whatever the last wash left behind. The paint is durable. The surrounding details are what make or break the result.

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  Silver Corvette C8 — Post-Detail Showroom Shine

  Silver metallic is the opposite problem from black. The flake scatters light and hides swirl marks almost completely, so silver cars often arrive looking fine and turn out to be carrying years of bonded contamination and road film nobody could see. On a mid-engine car with this much low bodywork, the interesting work is under the beltline.

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  Alpine White BMW 3-Series — Pristine Finish

  Alpine White is the most common BMW finish in the Triangle and the one owners most often misjudge. White hides swirl marks well, which is why a neglected white car can still look acceptable from ten feet. What it does not hide is contamination. Iron fallout, rail dust, and bonded pollen all read as a dull yellow-gray cast that washing alone will not lift.