Common questions

A Suburban has roughly twice the panel area and twice the interior of a Miata, and it takes about twice as long to do properly. Pricing by size is what lets us publish a real number for every package. Pick your size on any package and the price for your car shows up.

Yes, on everything in the packages. The only time it moves is when the car needs materially more than the package covers. Heavy pet hair, smoke damage, paint that wants two stages when you booked one. We tell you before we start and you decide then.

Not on detailing packages. Coatings and PPF take 25% up front to hold the bay, because those bookings tie one up for days at a time. It comes off the final bill and it's refundable up to 48 hours before.

A ceramic coating is a hard, water-shedding chemical layer that makes the car easier to wash and holds off chemical etching. Paint protection film is a thick urethane layer that absorbs rock chips, which a coating cannot do. Cars putting on freeway miles usually want film across the front and a coating over everything else.

Yes. A coating holds whatever is underneath it in place for years, so swirls that go under a five-year coating stay there for five years. Every coating package we sell includes the correction its tier calls for.

As long as the warranty says, provided it gets maintained and inspected once a year, and that inspection is included. Coatings wear off through abrasion, so washing with a mitt rather than running the car through a brush automatic is what gets you the full term.

Interior work, maintenance washes and the Express and Signature packages all travel fine, so we can do those at your house or your office. Paint correction, ceramic coating and PPF have to be in the shop. They need controlled light, dust control and a stable temperature to cure.

A parking spot with about three feet of clearance either side. We bring our own water and power, so there's nothing to run out to us. An apartment garage works fine as long as we can open the doors all the way.

Detailing packages usually have something inside a week. Coatings and PPF run two to three weeks out because they hold a bay for days. Spring and early fall are the busiest we get.

Licensed and insured in Washington State, with garage-keepers coverage on any vehicle left with us. Ask for the certificate and we'll email it over before you book.

The shop is on Aurora Ave N in Fremont, Seattle. Mobile units run across Seattle, Bellevue and Kirkland, and we collect and deliver for correction and coating bookings anywhere in those three cities.

Tell us before you drive off, or inside 48 hours, and we'll put it right at no charge. We do the walk-around under our lights with you for exactly this reason, so anything missed gets caught while the car is still here.