Got the "basic detail", they spent so much time and attention on my vehicle, I was absolutely blown away when I saw it. These guys run an awesome shop.
Ajax vehicle owners make the 25-minute drive to Ultimate Detail & Rust Check in Bowmanville for ceramic coating and paint correction that actually delivers. Our straightforward highway drive on the 401 is worth it for professional results that protect your paint for years.
Ajax sits at the western edge of Durham Region, where lake-effect moisture from Lake Ontario combines with heavy road salt and highway contamination to create challenging paint preservation conditions. Ceramic coating's hydrophobic properties are especially valuable here. Water and salt sheet off the surface instead of sitting and etching. Our Ajax customers frequently combine ceramic coating with single stage paint correction to address automatic car wash swirls before sealing the paint.
From Ajax, take the 401 East to the Liberty St exit in Bowmanville. Turn right onto Baseline Rd E. The drive is about 25 minutes without heavy traffic.
Ajax sits on Lake Ontario and Ajax vehicles deal with paint threats that combine the worst of two environments. Lake-effect moisture and salt mist work on unprotected clear coat year-round, not just in winter. The Pickering Beach and south Ajax addresses sit close enough to the lake that vehicles parked outside accumulate constant salt-air exposure. The 401 commuter crowd in north Ajax and the Bayly St corridor adds highway brine, brake dust, and gravel rash on top. Ceramic coating is built specifically for this kind of compounding exposure. Three to five years of chemically bonded protection that resists salt, UV, and contaminants while making weekly washing dramatically easier. For Ajax vehicles, the hydrophobic surface also addresses the lake-mineral water spotting that landlocked Durham vehicles do not have to deal with.
Worth being straight about, because the marketing around this service oversells it badly. A coating is not paint protection film. It will not stop a stone chip on the highway, and anyone telling you it will is selling something. It is not scratch-proof either; it raises the surface hardness, which helps against the light marring a wash mitt causes, but a key or a branch still goes through it. It is not rust protection. It sits on painted exterior surfaces and does nothing at all for the rockers, door cavities, frame seams and underbody where vehicles actually rot, which is a separate oil-based job we also do. It does not make the vehicle self-cleaning, and it will not rescue paint that is already past correcting. What it does is bond to the clear coat, resist UV fade and chemical staining, and make contamination release far more easily for three to five years. That is a real and worthwhile thing. It is just narrower than the advertising suggests.
Not everyone should buy a three-to-five-year coating, and we would rather say so before you book the drive from Ajax. If the vehicle is being sold or traded inside a year, correction plus a quality wax gets the paint looking its best for the sale without paying for protection the buyer never negotiated. Clay bar and wax is our complete-exterior service: a full decontamination with tires dressed and plastics shined, and it is the sensible maintenance step between coatings rather than a replacement for one. Fallout removal handles embedded iron particles on its own. Wash and wax is the basic version and does not include tire or plastic dressing, which we say plainly so nobody is surprised at pickup. Ajax is about 25 minutes east on the 401 to the Liberty St exit, so it is worth deciding which of those you actually want before you set off.
Ceramic coating alone starts at $400 for cars and scales by vehicle size. Single stage paint correction is $300 to $425. Dual stage correction is $475 to $725. Most ceramic jobs combine correction and coating, with typical packages running $700 to $1,250 depending on vehicle size and correction level. We quote honestly after inspection. Ajax drop-off is 25 minutes on the 401, and most ceramic customers leave the vehicle overnight to let the coating fully cure before driving home.
Got the "basic detail", they spent so much time and attention on my vehicle, I was absolutely blown away when I saw it. These guys run an awesome shop.
Had my car detailed here. They were super friendly and accommodating, and very understanding of the absolute mess my car was in. My car came back cleaner than when I bought it- not kidding. Highly recommend.
The detailing done (interior and exterior) was absolutely flawless. I've never received such wonderful, friendly service. My car was previously smoked in, and it's impossible to tell. Windows, mats, leather seats, cloth interiors were all immaculate.