Paint Correction and Ceramic Coating

Auto Detailing in Redding

Vivid Detailz Auto Spa is a professional auto detailing service based in Redding. Our focus is on all automobiles including cars, trucks, SUVs, and motorcycles. With our team of experienced and highly trained crew members, quality service is an assurance. Our pricing is modest when compared to industry rates.

We treat each vehicle with the highest detailing quality and our staff handles them as if it were their own. We take good care of your vehicle while it’s in our shop. We offer several auto detailing packages, each one provides quality service for your vehicle.

We Service All Types of Vehicles:

• Cars

• Trucks

• SUVs

• Motorcycles

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Our Process

We treat each car model and brand uniquely because we understand they are different and respond differently. The best equipment and car brand experts are assigned to each car type to ensure a maximum auto detailing experience. Our car maintenance service is top notch and we understand that these machines have to be taken care of to maintain their systems and market value.

Our services are varied, and we recommend that you treat your car every three to four months depending on if you are a heavy car enthusiast or just a daily driver. These services are guaranteed to keep your car in top shape and even improve their maintenance if they are done regularly. If you’re looking for quality car detailing, you’ve come to the right place.

Interior Coating Prep

Your vehicle interior is cleaned from top to bottom until it looks like new or better. The nature of the stains doesn’t matter, but an extra fee may be charged. It includes:

• Vacuum interior of vehicle (trunk included) from under your seats, in between seats, window switches, map pockets, and other hard to reach places.

• Complete shampooing of carpets to remove stains, road tar, grime and other particles to kill bacteria and foul odors that may be present.

• Shampoo seats and headliners to remove stains and smears.

• Clean complete interior vinyl trim and treat with UV inhibitors and conditioners.

• Clean and remove any scuffs in sill plates or trim.

• We use a vapor steamer to remove any dust and debris from between seat cushions, map pockets, cockpit switches, controls, trim pieces, and steering wheel gaps.

• Clean complete interior windows and mirrors.

• Clean door jams and treat seals.

• Clean and treat leather seats if equipped to avoid your interior colors from fading. Ask us about our leather ceramic coating.

• Scrub clutch, brake and throttle pedal to a squeaky clean look.

Exterior Coating Prep

The exterior of your vehicle is detailed and cleaned from top to bottom, making it easier to maintain an almost brand new finish. It includes:

• Pre-spraying the vehicle with a concentrated polymer solvent that emulsifies grease and dirt stains. A microfiber towel is then used with special non-woolen gloves (because of its abrasiveness on paintwork) to thoroughly clean the automobile.

• Apply automotive-grade clay bar and lubricant to remove sticky surface contaminants. Once lubricants and clay bar are applied this way, the surface looks and feels very smooth and appealing.

• Clean out wheel faces, tires and door jambs with an aluminum based solution that will leave it gleaming reflectively.

• Use a clean, non-abrasive microfiber towel to dry out the car’s body surface.

• Apply an ultraviolet tire dressing which stops rubber from cracking and gives it a sharp, matte black look.

• Clean and hand polish the glass windows to look streak free.

• Apply a polymer based synthetic paint sealant that lasts up to 6 months before any re-application again. Ask us about our ceramic coating options for optimal protection that lasts for years.

Headlight Restoration

Over time your headlights can become dull and foggy. Restoring your headlights to a high shine is not a complex process. There are several retail products claiming to restore your headlights, however, these products are not long lasting. If you want it done right, only trust an auto detailing expert like Vivid Detailz. Using UV light with a resin solution can give you a lasting solution without the need for re-application in future.

Paint Correction in Redding

Paint correction is a term that is used by both pro auto detailers and car enthusiasts alike to describe the process of restoring and rejuvenating the paint of a vehicle. This is done mainly through the elimination of surface imperfections and scratches. These imperfections include things like oxidation, haze, swirl marks, fine scratches, bird dropping etching, acid rain etching, hard water spotting holograms, and buffer marks.

How it Works?

The term paint correction should only be used if the imperfections in your vehicle’s paint are properly removed. The corrective process consists of a small amount of clear coat or paint being removed from the surface with the use of abrasive polishes. These polishes are applied with the appropriate polishing machines, in order to level out the surface of your vehicle’s paint. Before paint correction is done, the vehicle is properly washed and cleaned to remove any loose dirt and debris. Then, the vehicle is “clayed” with a special automotive clay bar. This safely removes any bonded surface contaminants such as tar and industrial fallout.

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PAINT POLISHING IS OUR SPECIALTY

It’s important that contaminants are removed before the paint correction process. If they’re not removed they could become dislodged and caught in the pad of a polishing machine, causing damage to the surface very quickly. By leaving the surface very smooth the polishing machine will be able to move freely over the surface, reducing the possibility of hopping or sticking. By “claying” the paintwork you are able to properly see the progress of the correction process as you’re working.

Polishing is a multistage process using a range of different grades of polish. These polishes range from heavier cutting compounds, to finer products. The heavy cutting compounds remove any surface material, while the finer products remove any marks caused by the heavier products and refine the finished product. During the paint correction process it is common for a paint depth gauge to be used.

A paint depth gauge measures the thickness of the paint on the metal panel and is used before, during, and after the process to monitor and make sure the right amount of paint is removed. If too little or too much is removed it can cause irreversible damage to the paint. Special lamps that replicate the effect of direct sunlight on the vehicle’s surface are used to check the condition of the paintwork and see how successfully the surface scratches and imperfections are being removed.

Some of the scratches or imperfections may be too deep or severe to safely remove without risking removing too much surface paint or clear coat. These scratches or imperfections are minimized and reduced as best as possible using a machine polisher and polishing products that round off the edges of the scratches. This process makes them far less apparent in the direct light.

After the paint correction, the panels are wiped down with isopropyl alcohol which removes any oils that may have been left over from the polish. The alcohol also reveals the true finish, and any areas that may have been missed or require a little more work. Once complete the fully corrected paintwork will shine brilliantly. The finished product will also give off a mirror finish because there are now no longer any scratches or imperfections to reflect the light rays in different directions.

Paint correction is a very labor intensive process and is usually the most time consuming part of the car detailing process. Because of the long process, it commands higher premiums from professional detailers & car cleaners. Amateurs or car enthusiasts should only attempt to correct their own paintwork if they are completely confident in doing so or have enough experience to carry it out safely as they can cause more harm than good.

PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT

In conclusion, paint correction is the process of removing surface scratches and imperfections from a vehicles paintwork, that involves the use of machine polishers and a range of different polishing products. A fully paint corrected vehicle will show only true reflections and no swirl marks, scratches, or blemishes when viewed in direct sunlight.

It is also important to distinguish between paintwork that has been truly corrected and paintwork that has been treated with products that are designed to mask and fill surface imperfections. This should never be referred to as paint correction even if no scratches or blemishes are apparent, because they have not been genuinely removed and are still present under the filler products. These filler products will wash away in time and leave your car looking worse than when you took it to have the paint correction done. Unfortunately, these practices are being used all too often. Always use a reputable vehicle detailing company when having your paint corrected.

CERAMIC COATINGS IN REDDING

At Vivid Detailz we pride ourselves on giving you the most up to date services to keep your vehicle looking new for the life of the car. One of the ways we are doing this is by offering the very best form of vehicle protection called, Ceramic Coatings. Ceramic coatings are on the cutting edge of vehicle preservation available. It is a multi-layerable, clear, liquid nano-ceramic coating. When cured, this technology will transform itself on the surface to a beautiful, durable yet flexible glass shield. Ceramic coatings can be described as an additional clear coat, with 3 times the hardness and self cleaning properties. We only use the very best Ceramic Coating offered on the market today.

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Ceramic Coating Packages

How It Works?

Ceramic is a multi-layerable, clear, liquid nano-ceramic coating. When it cures, the nano technology will transform itself on the surface of your vehicle to a semi-permanent, rigid, yet flexible glass shield. Ceramic Coatings can be described as an additional clear coat, with 3 times the hardness and self cleaning properties.

This nano technology allows the Ceramic Coatings nanoparticles to fill even the smallest of pores in the paint which makes the Ceramic Coating glass shield shiny, smooth and extremely slick or hydrophobic. Ceramic Coatings dramatically lowers the surface tension preventing environmental contaminants such as: bird droppings, bugs, dirt, tar and graffiti paint from bonding to the surface. Water easily removes dirt from the surface by encapsulating it while rolling off the surface. This is called the self-cleaning effect.

Once the Ceramic is cured, it is measured to have hardness above 9H. A normal clear coat has hardness between 2H and 4H. This increase in the hardness of the coated surface is huge and makes it the hardest paint coating on the market today. This new glass shield prevents any minor scratches to your clear coat and acts as a sacrificial layer. This layer helps preserve the original factory paint.

Any surface scratches that happen in the clear coating are easily removed with a light polishing that will not weaken the integrity of the original clear coat. With a quality Ceramic coating, your paint won’t fade or age due to the UV protection in the glass coating. Think of Ceramic coatings an additional clear coat layer, only a lot harder. All of this allows for more peace of mind and a longer, fuller life of your vehicle, even in harsh environments.