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| What is clear coat
restoration? |
- Clear coat restoration is the
process of restoring your clear coat to factory and
often better than
factory conditions. If you have ever looked at how your
vehicle's exterior panels look in direct sunlight, you
have probably seen an array of circular shaped lines
also known as swirl marks, cobweb scratches, and clear
coat scratches. Clear coat
restoration can repair these and other surface
imperfections.
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| Can you perform clear coat
restoration without the purchase of a package? |
- We require at least our
exterior-only Stage I (Starting at $60.00) to properly
clean and prepare for the clear coat restoration
process.
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| What other imperfections can clear coat restoration repair? |
- Water spots - Hard water that has
left mineral deposits in your clear coat.
- Acid etching - Bird droppings or bug
remains that have sat on your clear coat too long to be
washed away.
- Buffer trails/Holograms - Commonly
caused by an inexperienced detailer that was using
abrasives on your vehicle.
- Scratches - This depends greatly on
how deep they are. If you can run your finger nail
across it without catching the scratch, it should be
repairable but, we can tell you when we see it in
person.
- Oxidation - A light haze that
develops on your vehicle over time giving it a faded
appearance.
- Overspray - Often removed with the
clay bar process but can still find its way into clear
coat restoration depending on the severity.
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| Can
all of those surface imperfections always be repaired? |
- It is possible that certain imperfections cannot be
repaired without involving lengthier repair methods or
consulting a body shop. For instance, if bird droppings
were to sit on your clear coat for too long and they
have left acid etching, it may not be possible to fully
repair them depending on how deep they have etched. In most
cases though, everything can be fully repaired.
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| Why is this an important
step? |
- Even if you are not concerned with how your vehicle
looks in direct sunlight, preparation before putting on
any wax or sealant plays a very important role in how
the exterior surfaces will look after the detail is
complete. Observe the image below:
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Without a smooth surface for the light
to refract evenly across it, the reflection given off from your detailed
vehicle will not be as clear or bright as it could be. This
is how it would reflect:
The red lines demonstrate how differently the
light/reflection would bounce off of your vehicle's body
panel. The difference between a restored panel and an
un-restored panel is dramatic in person. |
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| Another detailer offers
this service for much less money, why should I choose you
over them? |
- While the other detailers are guessing, we determine
clear coat thickness with our state of the art DeFelsko
depth gauges. Jason's Auto Spa
utilizes a DeFelsko PosiTector 6000 thickness gauge to
analyze layer thickness in ferrous and non-ferrous
metals and a DeFelsko PosiTector 200 thickness gauge
that utilizes ultrasound technology to determine layer
thickness of up to three individual layers on composite
vehicles. We also have an array of high quality
polishing pads, different polishing machines for
different surface conditions, various polishes and
compounds for specific needs, innovative lighting
designed to reproduce intense sunlight for surface
analysis, and to the most important part: Experience.
Clear coat restoration is always done by one person -
the founder of Jason's Auto Spa, collision repair and
paint technology graduate, eleven year professional
detailer, Jason Gauer. There are over one
hundred possible combinations of
polishers/polishes/pads to approach any clear coat
restoration task. This is not a time for guessing. Ask
for a free estimate from Jason's Auto Spa.
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| Why is a paint thickness gauge
important? |
- It is important to determine the
total thickness to track
how much clear coat you have removed after the restoration services because there are guidelines
to keep within. It is also important to know if certain
areas are too shallow or too thick, as they will both
react differently than the other body panels and we
would adjust our restoration methods accordingly. These are very costly tools to
purchase which is why most detailers
overlook them and take risks with your vehicle
instead. We believe that is unacceptable.
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| Remember: Quality isn't expensive,
it's priceless! |
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