Apex Auto Care specializes in automotive refinishing and paint correction, serving South Louisiana and Northshore surrounding areas.
•Exterior Hand wash – We will first provide your vehicle with a high pressure rinse to remove loose dirt and grime, then using the finest wash mitts and automotive shampoo, we will give your vehicle a thorough hand wash, spot-free rinse, and hand dry using a waffle-weave chamois to ensure a scratch-free, spot-free, beautiful finish. Our hand wash also includes a thorough undercarriage spray down, wheel well, tire, and wheel cleaning.
•Interior vacuum – Our powerful vacuums will carry away dirt, debris, and sand from your vehicle’s carpets and upholstery.
•Dash and trim wipe down – Over time and a busy life, dust, grime, and grease will accumulate on your vehicle’s dashboard and interior trim components. We will wipe off all loose dust on your dashboard and interior trim.
•Light interior degrease - Using a UV-protectant, alcohol free interior dressing, we will provide your vehicle’s interior with an aesthetically appealing, low-gloss, grease-free shine. Also includes a thorough cleaning of A/C vents and center console.
•Tire/wheel shine – Our glossy, silicone-free tire and wheel dressings will give your vehicle’s wheels and tires a showroom finish that repels dirt and brake dust.
•Window clean – We will clean your windows and leave them with a clear and streak free finish.
•Exterior paint sealant – Using our high-quality synthetic polymer, our paint sealant will clean, protect, and leave a shine on your vehicle that is longer lasting, glossier, and safer than traditional carnauba-based waxes. This treatment will allow dirt and dust to just fall right off of your paint! This treatment usually lasts 6-8 months.
•Claybar paint decontamination – Claybar is an engineered resin compound used to remove contaminants from the surface of your car’s paint, glass, fiberglass and metal. Detailing clay can be natural or synthetic, though most manufacturers utilize synthetic clays. We will use a lubrication spray first, and then glide our Claybar over your vehicle’s paint surface to pick up and remove debris or anything protruding from your vehicle’s clear coat.
•Engine bay clean & shine – Over time, your vehicle’s engine bay will accumulate sand, grime, grease, and dirt. We will first spray your vehicle down with an electronic and component safe, high strength degreaser, and then it will be sprayed off using high-pressure water, dried, and applied with a nice shine. This not only protects and makes your engine aesthetically appealing, but it will also remove grime and debris that could potentially stop mechanical components on your motor from working over time.
•Upholstery/leather decontamination & conditioning – Over time, natural oils from your skin and clothing will dirty your vehicle’s leather or cloth seats. Our professional interior care conditioner not only removes these oils and dirt from your interior, but it also restores your seats to the shine they left the factory with and protects them from cracking or ripping over a long period of time.
•Headliner stain removal & cleansing – Using our high-strength upholstery cleaner, we will gently rub out stains from your vehicle’s headliner.
•Carpet Shampooing & cleansing – We will use our deep penetrating automotive interior shampoo to remove set-in stains from your carpet, leaving it smelling fresh and clean!
•Scratch removal – Using our FLEX Variable Speed Orbital Buffer and the finest cleaning compounds, we can actively remove deep scratches in your vehicle’s clear coat.
•Swirl Removal – Poor wash and dry techniques can leave hard etching and swirls in your vehicle’s paint. Our job is to apply a medium-cut compound first, then upon removal, apply a coat of fine machine polish which will actively remove light swirling and etching from your vehicle’s clear coat. Both coats of polish are applied and removed with our FLEX Variable Speed Orbital Buffer.
•Interior Steam Cleaning – Our steam cleaners will provide 200 degrees of steam to your vehicle’s interior, actively cleaning hard-to-remove stains and odors, leaving your interior smelling and looking clean and fresh!
•Full paint correction – This intensive process is essentially a full-on restoration of your vehicle’s clear coat by wetsanding. Improper wetsanding techniques or lack thereof and poor painting techniques will leave your paint with what the automotive industry calls “orange peel.” These are basically thousands of small bumps in your vehicles paint that would resemble the texture and feel of an orange. We start by giving the vehicle a hand wash, then a dry. After, we go over your vehicle’s paint, one panel at a time, with 600 grit 3M sandpaper and water combination. This process takes off small margins of your vehicle’s clear coat, removing ALL surface scratches, gouges, and orange peel. After, we go over it with a 2000 and 3000 grit sandpaper using the same process. Finally, we apply a 10,000 grit Rubbing Compound and then machine polish to your vehicle. This leaves your clear coat with a finish nicer than it came with from the factory. This process will remove the following: Surface scratches and defects, swirling, hazing, oxidation, and orange peel.
•Smoke and odor removal – We will run a professional strength odor penetration spray into your vehicle’s A/C system and upholstery, permanently removing odors from smoke and other odors from your vehicle.
•Headlight restoration – Over time, heat, UV rays, and harsh chemicals can oxidize your vehicle’s headlights; this oxidation impairs night time and fog visibility by reducing lighting through the lenses. Our headlight lense restoration will not only remove oxidation and hazing from your headlights, but it also provides you with improved visibility while driving and protects your lenses from oxidation.
