ONYX DETAIL WORKS · CERAMIC + PPF · APPOINTMENT ONLY
The paint is the colour.The light is the test.
An appointment-only ceramic coating and paint protection film studio. Four cars a week, never more — because the fourth coat of attention is the one you're paying for.
NOT A CAR WASH
A preservation studio, not a shine shop.
Shine is what you see the day you collect the car. Preservation is what the paint reads like in year five — film edges still tight, coating still beading, clear coat still at the thickness we logged the day it arrived.
That is the work we sell. It is slower, it is measured, and it is why the diary holds four cars a week with no exceptions for a fifth.
THE DETAIL BAY
Your car moves through four stages. So does this page.
Every build follows the same walkthrough: measured intake, honest correction, sealed-room protection, and a handover you inspect the way we do. No stage is skippable, and no stage is a mystery.
Intake. The paint is measured first.
Before a pad spins or a panel is touched, the whole car is read with a paint thickness gauge and logged panel by panel. The map tells us how much clear coat history has already taken — and how far correction can safely go.
WHAT A LESSER SHOP SHIPS
Polishing without a gauge map is guesswork with an abrasive. Clear coat does not grow back.
- PANEL READINGS
- 34
- AVG FILM BUILD
- 128µm
- INSPECTION
- 5600K
Correction. Removed, not hidden.
Two machine stages — cut, then refine — under the same 5600 K bar you'll inspect under. Glazes and filler-heavy polishes flatter for a fortnight and then wash off. We remove the defect, or we tell you exactly why we stopped.
WHAT A LESSER SHOP SHIPS
Film or coating laid over swirl is the defect, laminated. It comes with a warranty and it is still wrong.
- MACHINE STAGES
- 2
- CUT + REFINE
- VERIFIED
- PROVEN UNDER
- 5600K
RAWCORRECTED
Protection. Sealed room, digital patterns.
Film patterns are computer-cut before they meet the car — no blades near your paint, edges wrapped rather than trimmed. Ceramic goes on in a temperature-held room and is levelled under the bar before it cures.
WHAT A LESSER SHOP SHIPS
Stretched film saves material and lifts at the edges within a season. Ours wraps, or it doesn't leave the bay.
- FILM THICKNESS
- 8.5mil
- PATTERNS
- DIGITAL CUT
- INITIAL CURE
- 12hr
The reveal. Inspect it like we do.
Handover happens under the bar, panel by panel, with the intake readings beside the finished numbers. You leave with the gauge log, the aftercare brief and the first-wash rules — and the room goes back to being empty.
- FULL CURE
- 7days
- FIRST WASH
- 14days
- GAUGE LOG
- ISSUED
VEHICLE-NAMED PROOF
Owners who checked our light game.
The sedan came back reading better than delivery day. I walked it with their bar before I paid — and couldn't raise a single thread.
Trucked it in from two states over on a forum recommendation. The gauge log alone was worth the trip; nobody else offered one.
They turned my neighbour's car away because the week was full. That's the moment I stopped shopping on price.
ALLOCATION
Four bays. Four cars. One week.
A typical week's board. Slots are confirmed at quote — when the four are taken, the diary rolls to the next week rather than squeezing in a fifth.
BAY 01
TRACK-DAY COUPE
FULL FRONT FILM
HELD
BAY 02
TWIN-TURBO SEDAN
CORRECTION + CERAMIC
HELD
BAY 03
LUXURY 4X4
TRACK PACK PPF
HELD
BAY 04
This one is yours.
Take the open slot
The three questions everyone asks.
Film or ceramic — which one do I need?
Film absorbs impact: stone chips, road rash, careless doors. Ceramic changes how the surface ages and washes; it will not stop a stone. High-impact zones earn film, the rest of the car earns coating — most builds here run both.
Do you only take exotics?
No. The ceiling is four cars, not four badges. A daily-driven wagon gets the same gauge map, the same two-stage correction and the same sealed room as anything with a wing.
How long will you have the car?
Correction and coating runs two to three days. Full-body film is a week or more, because cure windows are part of the build, not an inconvenience. You get the exact window with your quote.
Four cars a week.Take a slot.
Tell us the car, the state it's in, and what it needs to survive. Quotes answered within one working day.