KA Rust
Ford KA rust around the petrol cap is very common, though we can not guarantee rust it can be repaired and paint matched and blended out.
The repair certainly makes the car look smarter.
Wing Mirror Fix
You park on a narrow street only to return and find your wing mirror hanging off! It happens….narrow country lanes also seem to be a culprit for poorly wing mirrors. Using specialist techniques wing mirrors can be re-attached and repaired. Dont resort to parcel tape! Give Smarter Cars a call.
Large Wing Repair
Here a wing has been badly crushed in, damaging the front indicator too. Most garages will want to replace the whole wing with an expensive cost attached.
Using special SMART techniques and tools the majority of the dent is pushed back into place. A flat surface is used to check for high spots which are also tapped back into place.
A special filler is used which will be rubbed down a number of times to regain a nice smooth surface.
Once the wing has been repaired a thick undercoat is applied. This will be rubbed down and re-applied a number of times until the surface is very smooth, scratch and blemish free.
A base coat (colour) is then applied taking care to ensure the paint blends in perfectly with the existing paint.
Finally a high quality lacquer is applied and blended in perfectly to hide any joining seams. A new indicator light is also fitted.
Basic Wing Repair
Wings are often scuffed just as much as bumpers, especially with small driveways. SMART repairs are designed to work within the affected area keeping it as local as possible, this way the new paint can be blended for a perfect match with no need to spray the whole wing.
Blue Metallic Shine
Sometimes a car can start looking sorry for its self, even with a clean. Paint fades and small scuffs and marks to the lacquer can build up over time making the car look not as shiny as it once had.
Smarter Cars uses a variety of special grade compounds and polishes to remove those marks and buff that shine up again. The result can be pretty amazing and the polish will keep the car protected against the elements for a while longer.
Headlight Polish
Plastic headlights are becoming the norm and unfortunately they are often forgotten about when cleaning cars. UV light from the sun can often cause them to slowly fade and become yellow, giving a fog-like look. Eventually this will not only effect your night-time visibility from your lights, but can even fail its M.O.T. However these lights can often be buffed up with special compounds and polished to give a nice shiny surface again.
Quick Sticker Removal
Sometimes when buying a car the previous owner may have left an old sticker on it, perhaps symbolising where they are from or a fan club sticker etc.
Luckily these stickers can be quickly removed and the sticky residue cleaned up. Sometimes if the sticker has been left on for a long time there is a ghostly outline left behind. With a proper cutting compound this ghosting can be reduced or removed completely.
Window Trim Repair
Stone chips can happen anywhere and hitting an aluminium window trim can cause the chip to easily rust and bubble up.
Alloy Wheel Refurbish
Many alloy wheels can be repaired by keeping the repair area local. However, there does come a time when a wheel is so badly scuffed all around that its easier to refurbish the whole wheel. In this example the wheel had certainly seen better days.
The wheel is cleaned up and rubbed down with the scuffs being sanded out, sometime a little filler is added to the worst scuffs.
Next the wheel is primed and rubbed down a few times, this removes any scratches and blemishes. Eventually the wheel will be ready for a colour coat.
Once the colour has been sprayed on and inspected from all angles the lacquer is sprayed on. This will be a high quality 2k lacquer to help give the wheel a high quality shine with decent depth.
Wing Mirror Plastic Flaking
In this repair the wing mirror casing was fine, but the plastic by the window was flaking away. The plastic was rubbed down, primed and sprayed black using specialist paints designed for plastic.
