Picture Perfect Car Detailing
Phillip Island, Cowes, South Gippsland
Professional Car Detailing Services
The Picture Perfect Way
Your car is an investment which will look just as good in 5 or more years time with regular maintenance and care with our assistance. If we care for it regularly, minor wear can be fixed as it happens.
Your everyday car needs to be detailed every 2-6 months due to the road contaminants embedded into the paint, and dust and debris will enter yours cars interior.
Our professional car detailing removes this dirt, both outside and inside to maintain your new car feel. We don’t just coverup.
Car Exterior Detail
We work on the different surfaces that firstly, thoroughly cleans the paint, followed by a careful and extensive buff/polish when necessary. The shine on your car comes from the light reflecting from your paint after the surface contaminants and fine scratches have been removed. This is before any surface protection wax has been added.
Car Interior Detail
We then put as much effort to extensively cleaning the inside of your car, as we put into into the outside. We use a strategic combination of different brushes, steam cleaning and just the right type and level of cleaner so as to not damage any interior surface.
Protective Paint Sealers And Protective Waxes
The final finish is to apply a selection of premium paint sealers and protective waxes to offer your car the best ongoing protection against the harsh Australian elements. These are what extends the life keeping everything looking beautifully clean and shiny.
A Full Car Detail job takes a full day that is 8 hours of love.
Our full Basic professional car cleaning and detailing job will take all day. We take a dirty car and we restore its lustre.
Our focus is always to make your car look it’s very best for its age and km traveled. And our aim for your car detailing Phillip Island service is to make your car look brand new again
Full interior and exterior car detailing services
Ceramic paint protection treatment makes the car sparkle
Picture Perfect Car Detailing for old car paint restoration. Bring your classic car to life
Services
1) Full Ceramic Coat and Graphene hard surface paint protection – we offer a ceramic hard surface glass resin coating. This is mostly suitable for a new car, and provides a superior paint and trim protection, at a reduced price compared to the new car dealer package. This takes 2 days and includes extensive preparation.
2) PPF Premium Stone Chip Film (clear car bra) – This is the most heavy duty protection and can provide a thick sacrificial protective layer over the paint for total protection. We also offer this as an one off road package to resist scratching when you use your 4WD.
3) Full Restoration detail – for classic and collector cars. This type of detail is usually done over 2 or more days, where a car is being detailed and restored to as close to new condition as possible. It is usually an older restoration. This is often an older classic car or expensive sports car, not used every day, that needs some additional care to gently bring back to a show car presentation. We focus on the outside usually and the inside is an option.
4) Full premium interior and exterior detail. – this is normally two of our staff on your car all day. It includes a more extensive paint clean, preparation and full buff (cut and polish). To achieve a premium finish and to have the best result, your paintwork needs to be free of tree sap and abrasive finish of the paint surface. In this instance, a car will receive a clay bar surface treatment and often a chemical clean extra added to the extensive wash
5) Basic Detail (Full day 1 person) offers both car interior detailing and exterior detailing with sometimes a basic buff and/or clay bar clean to bring the shine back. This suits a car being sold, but its best when you have just purchased a car to setup a protection base.
6) Maintenance/Quick wash – for a previously detailed car, this assumes your car is in good condition but needs a clean and top up detailing. It is recommended that this is done every 1-6 months (depending on your car usage).It is usually a HALF day detail at HALF the price.
Peter is the face behind Picture Perfect Car Detailing with over 40 years’ experience as a classic car owner and collector, working as a mechanical and chemical engineer in automotive and mining.
“Initially working at BTR Engineering as one of the quality control people, I found that attention to detail will always provide the highest quality results for the product. Later I spent time working with large automotive dealer and transport companies, and spray paint booth suppliers, installing large workshop fit outs.
My last engineering projects prior to opening Picture Perfect Car Detailing based in Cowes Phillip Island, centred around chemical manufacture, analysis and safe storage, which included understanding the different uses of cleaning chemicals and oils, and how they react with materials. This also included some work with BASF New generation Paints with their new water-based paints, now standard.
My passion area over the last 40 years is car collecting and car racing. There have been many car shows attended and a few trophies won along the way. The first of the car collections included a selection of Falcon GTs, R/T Chargers and Commodores.
Over the time there has been Jaguars, Alfa Romeos, Ferraris, Maserati’s and Subaru’s, that have been carefully detailed for car shows to premium levels of presentation.
This 40 plus years of experience and knowledge is now available for all our Picture Perfect Customers.
Just ask us questions and we can make your car ownership even more rewarding.”
Ceramic Car Coating: Invest In Paint Protection On Your New Car.
Ceramic and Graphene Coating Hard Surface Paint Protection
Ceramic Graphene coating SiO2 is a tough and superior paint protection. It ensures that your cars exterior continues to be scratch resistance and ensures that your vehicle retains its shine. It resists contaminants sticking and makes regular washing much simpler. Ceramic coating will last 2-5 years.
We can do a superior job at a lower price on your new car.
Premium Paint Protection
When we carry out various options for Paint Protection application, we do a full inspection and further correct what the car dealer does not. We aim for new car paint for a new car.
New cars often sit on docks and will suffer fall out damage to their new paint when they arrive at the dealer as they are totally unprotected during transport and when you receive delivery, your new car has only had a temporary spray wax protection that initially lasts about 1 month.
If left on the new car lot, they have quick daily washes that scratch the paint before you receive your new car (ex Demo’s are the worst)
Ceramic Paint Protection is generally said to last 2 years, but what the car dealer does not tell you is with regular correct maintenance it can safely protect your car much longer.
Ceramic and Graphene Car Coating is a wafer thin solvent based hard glass like resin. It makes the car shine to a new level of gloss. This protective coating for cars offers a resisitence to dirt and grime buildup adherring to the paint if it is maintained.
What Ceramic Coating does excel at: it makes your car sparkle and stay that way, as washing your car becomes a much quicker, simpler task, with better results.
CAR YARDS DON’T OFFER MAINTENANCE SERVICE, BUT WE DO!
This general maintenance wash is $200-$300, applied at 6-month intervals and your car looks brand new again. We offer a complete guaranteed system that will maintain your asset while you use it. And maintain your cars value.
Why a new car?
Only because the paint is new and not yet badly damaged. You can Ceramic Coat any paint, but as the car gets older it will need any scratches removed prior to ceramic coating. This will require extra paint correction (buffing) and it costs more.
Ceramic coating will lock in the paint surface, so the surface must be in as close to perfect condition as possible.
What Is Ceramic WAX?
Ceramic wax for cars is new generation polymer wax water based and is the necessary sacrificial layer for Full Ceramic coating maintenance. Ceramic waxing can also be applied to protect paint, in place of full Ceramic protection. But as a water-based protection it only lasts 3-6 months and is soft offering no protection against wash scratching. Ceramic waxing is a perfect standalone protection for a new car but must be reapplied at 6 months maximum.
This is our standard finish for all our detailing projects.
Ask Us Which Option Is Best
We can explain the best options to help protect your new or near new car asset. Come and talk to us about your professional ceramic coating!
Maintaining Your Asset. Quick Wash Detail
After executing one of our car detailing packages, you will be able to enjoy your car looking and feeling perfectly clean and fresh! This is a service for our repeat customers.
Road Contaminants
Rain does not put dirt on your car, but driving on wet roads, especially behind a truck does. You’ll find that damaging tar and wet dust adhere to the paint work, that any normal wash will not completely remove.
Protect Your Asset With Protective Waxes
Whether it is monthly or 6 monthly, the protective waxes will need topping up and there will usually be tar removal required. We remove the contaminants from inside and out without taking the previously applied protection from the car. Protection surface coatings will build up, over ongoing quick details, these will continue to enhance and protect your asset.
This is done relatively quickly on a previous detailed car, because all the hard work has already been done. So it is low cost service at only $150-$250.
Maintain The Car Value
By maintaining your asset, you’ll keep the value in your car and let us address any wear and tear as it happens, not years later when it becomes a big job again.
With our Quick wash, you can expect to have your previously detailed car look just like it has had a full high end detail, at only a fraction of the cost.
You are now one of our regular “special “ Picture Perfect customers when you come back.
Car Restoration Detailing
We love to do a full, premium restoration detail and see new life put into those beautiful classic cars. Your car is treated to extra love and attention and even more gentle detail when we go for the Restoration Detail Package. These take 2-3 days as a normal.
Older Cars Need Regular Care
Older cars will need more time and work, simply because they have been around longer and the materials and care has not been as high tech as it is these days.
Classic Car Repair And Restoration
What we pride ourselves in doing is utilizing our considerable experience and skills to repair and restore to detail your classic or exotic car, and knowing and understanding that it has an extra special place in your life. We treat it like it’s our own baby.
This is where owning and presenting classics such as the Falcon GT , HSV Commodores, Jaguars and Alfa Romeos for show, allows us to know which are the best and most suitable application of products to bring out the best in your car.
As older cars will experience more wear and tear, we recommend an inspection and quote.
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