Mercedes-AMG S63

This AMG S63 came in looking good. It left looking new, and it will stay that way for years. The owner didn't want a color change. He loved the paint. What he didn't love was all the chrome, the way the light caught a hundred little swirl marks from years of quick car washes, and how fast the car got dirty and stayed dirty in the LA dust. Three problems. We solved all three in one visit.

First, the blackout. Every piece of brightwork, the grille surround, the window trim, the badges, the exhaust tips, got darkened out. Chrome ages a car and chops up its lines. Blacked out, the S63 reads as one long, low, serious shape instead of a luxury sedan wearing jewelry.

Then the part most shops skip: paint correction. Before any coating goes on, the paint has to be right, so we machine-polished the finish to pull out the swirls and haze built up over years. That is slow, careful work, and it is the difference between a coating that locks in flaws and one that locks in a mirror.

Only then did we lay the ceramic coating. It bonds to the paint and does the daily work the owner was tired of doing: water beads up and rolls off, dust struggles to stick, washing takes half the time, and the gloss looks permanently wet. The car now looks blacker, deeper, and cleaner than the day he bought it, and it shrugs off the city. Paint correction and ceramic coating, done properly in West LA.