Valet, scratch repair & detailing service to make car feel good as new?

FrankGrimes · 17-10-2015 9:34am #1

I have a 2011 Skoda Superb Elegance DSG and love it. Really like the drive with the DSG gearbox and as I travel around the country to cycle races a lot, the huge space is brilliant. Got it serviced yesterday and all is well, no problems so far. But it's just feeling a little old and I was getting tempted to start thinking about buying a new car. I absolutely don't need one as I'm aiming to cycle to work 3-4 days a week as it minimises the risk of traffic delays and works best for getting home in time to collect my little nipper from creche.

But as that nagging feeling was in the mind from seeing new cars in the showroom, I was wondering if there's a service out there where they will do a really thorough valet & detailing and repair scratches etc. so that the car feels pretty much good as new? The seats are beige leather and have some oil marks on the rear seats from bike parts, and the front passenger seat has some protein shake dried onto it from pre-race drinks. Nothing major apart from that - there's several light scratches on the black body work but reckon they could be fixed, one deep one 2-inches in size I'm not sure of.

Think I heard you could get a treatment that would help prevent scratches and keep a shiny look for a longer time than a usual wax? With work, baby and a college course, I've zero time to spend on the car myself, so if there was a company that had a good reputation for this stuff and it cost a couple of hundred euro, I'd give it a go as functionally the car is perfect so this might make it feel like new and get those nagging thoughts out of my head! Thanks

Curran · 17-10-2015 1:11pm

Ian in Elite Auto Clean is the man to go see.
Brian in Spirit Detailing is another, though im not sure he'll do the stone chips.

FrankGrimes · 17-10-2015 2:27pm

Thanks for that, from looking at their site and the pics on Facebook, they're exactly what I'm looking for, nice one!

JAMES VTI S · 18-10-2015 7:06am

Brian has a stone chip service.
Your talking about a coating that has scratch resistants and long term protection (2 to 5 years) and Brian uses optimum gloss coat or opti coat pro but 200 yo yos won't get you what you want, your going to have to save up least twice that for a coating, interior detail and the other add-ons you want.

vectra · 18-10-2015 10:29am

JAMES VTI S wrote: »

Brian has a stone chip service.
Your talking about a coating that has scratch resistants and long term protection (2 to 5 years) and Brian uses optimum gloss coat or opti coat pro but 200 yo yos won't get you what you want, your going to have to save up least twice that for a coating, interior detail and the other add-ons you want.

Brian gets my vote.

But you will also smile at the end result and say to yourself.
"Why would I even think of spending thousands on a new car when this can be done for hundreds"?

:cool:

Valet, scratch repair & detailing service to make car feel good as new?

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