The Finest Detail is Ben Carey's prestige detailing service.
Created for the discerning customer who expects only the finest finish for their special vehicle.
For those that truly appreciate the finest in automotive detailing art.
Is your car looking dull, faded or neglected or do you want to make sure your brand new car doesn't suffer the same fate?
We achieve stunning results everyday on similar cars. Using the world's finest paint correction techniques, ultra high gloss polishing skills and premium grade, high purity protective ceramic coatings.
To create a stunning better than showroom result you can be proud of, with a finish that will stand the test of time.
Making you shine so you always look your best, stand out from the crowd and turn heads everywhere you go!
The Finest Detail is Adelaide’s premier boutique automotive spa resort.
Bringing world class modern vehicle presentation techniques to South Australia.
The Finest Detail are dedicated professionals, specialists in identifying yourvehicles cosmetic problems, understanding their causes.
We are extremely skilled in the correct methods to minimize, improve or remove defects and imperfections on your vehicle permanently.
We understand the best approach to enhance the final finish to the highest possible level and most importantly proven processes, procedures and protection plans for you to preserve those results for years not months.
Experts in a wide range of finishes found on modern brand new cars to yesterday's vintage classics and everything in between.
With over 10 years experience constantly testing products, improving processes, refining methods, developing techniques and honing my skills. Striving to achieve the finest finish possible.
To truly deep clean, renew and protect your special vehicle, utilizing world class products, tools and techniques to truly deep clean, renew and protect your special vehicle, to create a stunning result you can be proud of with a finish that will stand the test of time!
Whether its paint, chrome, glass, plastic, leather or any modern luxurious finishes found on today's modern vehicles.
The Finest Detail can refine and protect it for you. Letting you relax and enjoy your stunning ride for years to come!
Careful Correction of Imperfections for all the different surfaces on a vehicle
The modern equivalent of a cut and polish on steroids< an art in itself.
The skills and knowledge required to achieve consistent exceptional results for all the varying paint systems used by manufacturers these days is mind boggling.
Hard, med and soft clear coats require vastly differing approaches to remove imperfections and achieve the highest levels of gloss possible.
Manufacturers are minimising expenses by using the least amount of paint possible, resulting in paper thin clear coat on most modern vehicles. meaning its a fine line between removing a scratch while still leaving enough clear coat to prevent future clearcoat failure.
Gone are the days of giving your car a buff once a year or so, todays vehicles have one or two paint corrections in them before serious issues are inevitable, such as delamination, UV degredation and cleacoat failure.
(Light defect removal, high gloss finish) Anywhere between 30-70% defect removal (depending on paint type and condition) Respectable gloss levels
(Med to heavy defect removal, high gloss finish)
Meticulous defect removal Jewelled ultra fine polish processes Maximum gloss finish possible Stone chip and scratch touch up included.
Meticulous defect removal Jewelled ultra fine polish processes Maximum gloss finish possible Stone chip and scratch touch up included.
All paint correction requires chemical and physical decontamination. Full correction takes 2-3 daysPricing is depending on the condition of the paint work to begin with.Inspection is best if possible and give syou a more accurate idea of what it needs and discuss the options on offer.
What is it?
Paint Correction is the modern version of cut and polishing utilising the latest technology. techniques and processes designed to be mostveffective when working with todays modern paint systems.
modern paint is a clear coat over base coat stsyem. a base colour layer with your beautiful sparkly metals flakes, pearls and vivid colours with a clear coat layer on top to create depth, enhance and protect the sparkles. paint corrections is only ever dealing with this top clear coat layer.if we ever touch thebase colour its game over. Repainting is the onlyoption
some scractches will be through this clear coat and they cannot be removed, also some scratches may not be complwtely through but deep enough that removing them will leave only a tiny layer of clear left and will create problems in the future.its a dance between removal and preservation only experience can teach.
Defect types?
Next specific lighting is needed to assess the true condition of the paint including wash marring, swirls, holograms from previous buffing attempts, deeper scratches, chips and dents.
Also different cars have different types of clearcoat, asian cars typically have softer clear, holdens and ford generally medium hardness and European cars like Mercedes and BMW have very hard ceramic clears that all require different approaches to correct defects and achieve insane mind blowing gloss :)
Next a couple test spots are completed to find the best combination of cutting compound, polishing, pads and machines will achieve the desired result. Heavy defects on hard paint would need strong cutting to budge any marks whereas soft Asian paints would be destroyed by harsh cutting yet once polished to a high level even wiping off of polish residue can scratch soft paint. It's a delicate dance to find the correct balance of correction without removing to much clear coat which can lead to paint peeling and clear coat failure in the future knowing when not to chase a deeper mark is just as important as removing them.
Once correction (cutting) is complete any residue, oils, compound dust is removed then polishing begins.
This process aims to raise the gloss levels of the paint without cheating by using gloss enhancing fillers such as waxes or glazes.
It's possible to complete multiple stages of refinement polishing down to ultra fine jewelling techniques to unleash higher amd higher levels of gloss until maximum gloss is achieved. Many hours and days can be spent jewelling polishing.The difference is another world and once seen and understood, the idea of not going the extra mile seems insanity.
If maximum gloss and clarity levels are reached then if say a wax was applied on top (Waxes being naturally opaque) the gloss levels would actually decrease. Taking the finish backwards. This is why only the highest purity quartz ceramic coatings are used so as not to effect the clarity achieved.
So your once beautiful car is looking dull and lifeless?
Lost Your Shine?
Get your gloss back and keep it!
Did you know every time you clean your car you're actually making it worse?
Sponges and chamois push dirt into your car's paint. Causing millions of fine scratches that build up over time until it's so dull it looks like it's ready for the wreckers. You think well it's due for a polish.
So you take it to a "Professional" detailer or worse the bucket wash for a cut and polish.
They mow into it with a heavy cut to get those scratches out, removing a large chunk of your limited clear coat in the process.
Next they polish it to a beautiful shine with their ancient looking filthy bottle of something that's been around for 20 years so must be good.
It's actually full of cheap wax or worse silicone and all it's really doing is filling and masking all the holograms and buffer trails their cut job put in and the cutting job didn't actually remove those scratches anyway they just got filled with oils from their cutting compound.
But your car looks great, so shiny!
You pay and leave very happy and proud.
You make sure you wash it regularly from then on so it keeps looking good but after a few washes it doesn't look quite so good. You get a bottle of something your mate said was awesome. Slather that on with a trowel and she's stunning again. You get tired of that after a couple goes and dont bother with a wash for a while. Reluctantly giving it a good wash a while later only to notice yet again a year or so later, she's dull and lifeless once more.
Oh well you reside yourself to the fact it needs a yearly buff or so and you love your baby so better look after it.
Soo back to the buffer bloke for more fillers, even less clear coat and a beautiful yet temporary shine.
Proud of yourself for taking such good care of your baby!
Don't feel too bad. It's what we all do. That's how dad washed it when we helped him on Saturday morning. That's how it's done.
What if i told you that meanwhile here's a selection of glowing cars that have gone 5 years since their one and only paint correction and ceramic coating was completed by a highly skilled specialist and only semi regularly washed since.
If you look closely, yes they could maybe do with a light polish to bring em up that bit more but they still look brand new.
Why is that?
Number 1 is a high quality ceramic coating.
Number 2 is safe wash methods.
No sponges, no chamois, no brushes at the wash bay, no touch free laser washes either. The laser wash uses harsh chemicals to clean a car without touching it.
Strong Acid and alkaline cleaners that dull the finish over time anyway and also degrade all your rubber and plastic trims.
Only a ceramic coated car can handle strong acid and alkaline.
Acid washing is actually how we reset and deep clean a coating that is not performing as well as it should due to a build up of road film and other grime embedded into the surface.
I wouldn't recommend trying that yourself though.
Because the owners knew what not to do and what they should do. Seek an expert with real world experience to
Over time your once beautiful car starts to look old and neglected.
Once the damage starts it can only be slowed down not stopped!
It happens so slowly it's imperceptible until it seems to have happened overnight.
That's when the average joe comes to
see us asking if we can save it.
Don't wait till it's too far gone. Get it protected first, then relax and enjoy it!
