Car detailing is the process of an extremely thorough cleaning, polishing and waxing of car, to produce a showroom-quality level of detail. Besides improving appearance, detailing also helps to preserve the resale value of a car.

The three main components of exterior car detailing are cleaning, polishing, and protecting. Acton Coachworks provide a comprehensive car detailing service that protects and enhances your vehicles appearance. We use only the finest waxes, polishes and cleaning products on the market and proven detailing techniques.

Paint Correction is a technique designed to remove blemishes to a car's paintwork that normal valeting or car detailing will not remove (such as such as dull and faded paintwork, swirl marks, light scratches and scuffs, key scratches and damage caused by bird droppings). Not only can paint correction make your car look as a"good as new", it also can be a much more economical option than a complete respray.

Car detailing - offers benefits to almost any car by significantly improving the appearance of your car, without the time and cost associated in seeking to achieve perfect paint correction. This is popular for newly aquired used cars, improving the appearance of a presently owned car, and helping to present a vehicle in it’s best light for sale.

Following a thorough cleaning process that will cleanse and decontaminate your car's paintwork, advanced polishes are used via a polishing machine to restore depth and gloss to your paint. In this process, light scratches and swirls marks will be removed or hugely improved, making the car look fresh and bright again. You might have started to notice your car's paintwork starting to look a little dull, the reflections in the paint just a bit flat. With our car detailing process, you’ll be amazed to see the lifeless paint restored to a lustrous, rich finish.

Once the polishing stage is completed, your paintwork will benefit from the protection of a fine wax. The addition of a wax is vital to make ongoing cleaning easy. Bugs are much easier to remove in the summer, general dirt and grime is easy to remove all year round. Wax, compared to a synthetic sealant like Supaguard or Lifeshine offers better resistance to damage caused by bird droppings and the like, meaning your car stays looking better, for longer.

The wheels on your car receive special attention too, by way of a wheel wax. Trim and seals are treated with a protective dressing and any bare metalwork is polished and sealed.

Your interior will be vacuumed, dusted and dressed. Further interior treatments such as carpet shampooing and a full grain leather clean are available. Car detailing can often be carried out in a day.

New Car Detail’s are available from £350.

Paint Correction - designed to restore your car's the paintwork back to the finest finish possible. Often car detailing alone is not sufficient to remove more serious scratches and other paintwork imperfections

Paintwork correction involves 2-3 stages of polishing, from removing the defects and levelling the paint, to refinement using fine polishes to add gloss, depth and clarity to the finish.

Once the paintwork is refined a protection stage is involved using a wax or sealant to form a protective barrier against the elements.

The above procedures are fairly time consuming and often need to take place over 2-5 days some requiring longer periods dependant on condition. In most cases where possible, before giving a quote the vehicle is viewed and a test comparison is provided to obtain what is achievable, all of which is non obligational. If the vehicle cannot be viewed beforehand it is important that an honest description of the condition is given, which enables us to price accordingly and allow adequate time to complete.

New Car Detail’s are available from £475.

New Car Protection Detail - a service offered to prepare and protect your new or nearly new vehicle, designed to help protect your investment and make it very easy to care for.

Belive it or not, many new cars have paint defects caused either by contamination in storage, transportation or due to main dealer pre-delivery cleaning. More often than not car dealerships will try to sell you their own protection package, they will bring in franchised or on site valeters who are usually inexperienced in the art of preparing your vehicle prior to you receiving it. Products are only as good as the preparation, and in most dealerships the valeters are given minimal time, poor products, and little training in how best to deal with your car. Acton Coachworks will detail and protect your vehicle to a faultless standard, so you can enjoy it with peace of mind throughout the length of your ownership.

All areas of your car receive attention. After making sure the paint is spotlessly clean, wax is applied to the paintwork and left to cure. Your alloy wheels are treated to reduce the build up of brake dust which corrodes the wheel surface, and make it easy to clean off. Inside, the carpets and mats are covered with protectant, and leather upholstery is sealed to minimize dirt build up, and on light colour leather, dye transfer from clothes.

New Car Detailing is available from £300.