Signature Wash & Decon
Two-bucket is the minimum, not the flex. Foam pre-wash, iron remover, hand wash with boar's-hair mitts, filtered-water rinse, air dry. Your paint comes back cleaner and no worse, which is rarer than it should be.
- FROM
- $129
- TIME IN BAY
- 2–3 hrs
SIGNATURE WASH FROM $129 · WITH FULL DECON + SEALANT FROM $189
Who this is for
For anyone who has watched a tunnel wash drag a dirty brush across their hood and felt it personally. The maintenance wash your coating — or your paint — actually deserves.
Every wash here follows the same protocol we used prepping race cars for photography: foam dwell to lift grit before anything touches paint, then a two-bucket hand wash with grit guards and a fresh mitt face per panel. The wash media never touches the floor. Ever. That rule alone prevents most of the swirls we correct for a living.
Decon is the part a driveway wash can't do. Iron remover dissolves the brake-dust particles embedded in your clear coat (you'll see them bleed purple), and a clay treatment pulls overspray and bonded fallout. Paint should feel like glass under a dry hand. Most paint in Charlotte feels like fine sandpaper.
We finish with a filtered-water rinse and heated air dry, so no towel ever drags a mineral spot across the finish. It is a longer process than a $25 wash. It is also why our coated cars still measure like new at year three.
Signature Wash & Decon,
answered.
Why does a wash cost $129 here?
Because it takes two to three hours and it cannot scratch your car. The price of a tunnel wash never includes the paint correction it eventually causes. If you just need pollen knocked off a leased commuter, we're honestly not the cheapest answer, and we'll say so.
What does iron removal actually do?
Brake dust is hot metal shavings that embed in clear coat and rust in place: those orange speckles on white cars. Iron remover chemically dissolves them so they rinse out instead of getting ground in by a wash mitt.
How often should a coated car come in?
Every three to four weeks in pollen season, every four to six otherwise. Or join the membership and stop thinking about it. That's what it's for.
ALSO ON THE BOARD
One car at a time. Yours next.
Request a slot — two minutes, no payment up front. We reply the same business day with an inspection time and an exact written quote before any work starts.