2011 Lexus ES 350

This a 2011 Lexus ES 350 that we finished recently. Being a mobile detailer means I can bring everything to your location and do it while you are at work. It was in decent shape to start with, but it ended up being a full paint correction. The owner didn’t realize what kind of damage, taking your car through a automatic car wash does to the paint. Most automatic car washes are brutal on your vehicles paint. Weather it is an automatic with brushes or brush-less. They will wreck your cars paint.



Imagine you are getting ready to go through the car wash the vehicle going through in front of you is a filthy muddy pick-up. the brushes in the car wash have just washed this truck and now are going to put those same brushes your vehicles paint with little to no time wash the brushes off. Those brushes are now taking that dirt from the previous pick-up and putting on your paint. Effectively scratching your vehicles paint. The next time you go through one get out of the vehicle and get down beside your vehicle and look down the side at an angle in the sun you will see scratches in the sides. It is very noticeable on dark colored vehicles.

Touch-less car washes are not quite as bad, but they also damage paint by the harshness of the chemicals they have to use. They have to use a harsh chemical to strip the dirt off of the paint and allow the pressure of the water to wash the rest off. The problem with this is over time it dulls the paint significantly.

For this peticular Lexus ES 350 the process used was 5 separate stages of cleaning, scratch removal, polishing, and finally finishing it all off with Swissvax Mirrage wax.

The finished result? Something more akin to an exterior finish that the owner could be proud of.

Notice the before pictures below. If you look close above the gas tank lid you can see the scratches. Tap on the picture and blow it up.