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Detailing Services > Ne Plus Ultra

Ne Plus Ultra: 1. The highest point, as of excellence or achievement; the acme; the pinnacle; the ultimate; 2. The most profound degree of a quality or condition.

For much of our lives, we live with compromise. We have to trade off work against play, earning against spending and what we want against what we actually need. It is in our nature to live with compromise, but every now and again something deep inside us will refuse to bow to logic, and sheer desire will take over and rule both our hearts and minds. In the case of supercars and old classics, very little about owning them makes logical sense, yet they ignite a passion within us that is sometimes impossible to resist. For owners of supercars and cherished vehicles both old and new, we are proud to offer a detailing service that puts love before money, and perfection before compromise. A service where we are not constrained by the limitations of time, and where we have the freedom to allow our talents to run riot in the quest for the ultimate finish. A service that can only be described as the ne plus ultra of detailing.

The work on the Lamborghini Gallardo shown below is a great example of why we offer this service, and what it involves. Less than a year old with just over a thousand miles on the clock, and bought as a personal reward for over a decade of toil spent building a new business, the owner wanted his pride and joy to be perfect in every way. However, since taking delivery of the car, the owner had noticed widespread contamination by bonded metal particulates, and numerous paint defects in the form of minor swirl marks and deeper random scratches. Lacking the time, equipment and skills necessary to correct such problems himself, the owner turned to us for our help. We subsequently spent 55 hours over 7 days carefully addressing all of the defects present on the car, correcting them completely in order to restore the car to flawless condition. All of the various stages in the process are illustrated and described in the following slideshow...

Ne Plus Ultra Slideshow Thumbnails (click to play and enlarge)

Upon arrival at our premises...   our first task was to remove bug splatter...   a light film of road grime...   and soot deposits around the exhausts...   ...using a warm water foaming wash procedure.
 
After rinsing the foam off...   the wheels were then carefully cleaned...   using a ph neutral cleansing gel...   ...and a selection of soft brushes.   After rinsing the wheels off...
 
a mild solvent was then used...   ...to remove any persisting tar spots.   Grime covered surfaces in the engine bay...   were then treated with a citrus degreaser...   and carefully brushed clean...
 
...before being rinsed at low pressure.   The same citrus degreaser was then used...   to clean all of the panel shuts...   and decorative grills and badges...   ...ahead of a gentle hand wash process.
 
After rinsing off, the bonded metal particulates...   were then removed using a clay bar...   ...and generous amounts of lubricant.   After a final rinse back outside...   ...the car was dried off and taped up for polishing.
 
After calibrating our paint gauges...   an initial inspection revealed numerous random scratches...   widespread minor wash marring and swirling...   ...and hologramming left over from the factory.   After establishing depth reference points by laser...
 
we selected the best suited polishes and pads...   and commenced the cutting back process...   ...with initially very successful results.   However, in some badly scratched areas...   not even a heavier compounding approach...
 
...could give full 100% correction.   The petrol cap before machine polishing...   during the polishing process...   ...and after, showing complete correction.   Aside from the remaining traces of deeper scratches...
 
this approach yielded full correction...   ...on every single panel on the car.   To correct the remaining traces of deeper scratches...   wetsanding discs were firstly soaked in lubricant...   ...and further depth reference points were established by laser.
 
The offending areas were then wetsanded by machine...   and the resulting haze compounded out...   ...to leave a fully corrected, flawless finish.   All of the bodywork was then refined...   ...using the finest finishing polish in the world.
 
The exterior glass was then carefully polished...   ...and the bodywork was dusted down.   A small chip on the off side door...   ...was then carefully and invisibly touched in.   Dye transfer on the leather seats....
 
was then carefully removed using a leather cleanser...   and all of the interior leather was then fed...   ...using a conditioning leather balm.   The rubber seals were also conditioned...   ...before the carpets were vacuumed.
 
The wheels were then sealed and the tyres dressed...   and the tarnished exhaust tips...   ...were carefully polished and then sealed.   Finally, the engine bay was dressed...   and the bodywork was treated with three coats...
 
of one of the finest bespoke waxes in the world...   in order to protect the freshly polished finish...   against future harmful surface contamination...   and to make the Balloon White pearlescent paint...   look as aesthetically beautiful...
 
...and physically desirable as possible.   The raging bull is an iconic symbol...   ...of one man's quest for automotive perfection.   Ne Plus Ultra is our own expression...   of what can be achieved...
 
if everyday constraints are lifted...   and our talents are freed...   ...to pursue perfection without compromise.   Ne Plus Ultra isn't really a detailing service per se...   but rather a commissioned piece of art...
 
that unites the owner and ourselves...   in an appreciation of form and function...   that goes way beyond the norm...   ...and defines who we are and what we love to do.    

Because the condition of supercars and cherished vehicles can vary greatly with age and usage, there is no standard list of tasks that adequately defines what a Ne Plus Ultra detail will include. However, as a guide to the bare minimum, over 50 hours of work will be conducted over a seven day period, with all surfaces being inspected, assessed, washed, cleansed, polished, protected and dressed appropriately. In each case we will do whatever is necessary to achieve perfection (without resorting to replacing parts or adding paint), and no time limit will be set - it will simply take as long as it takes.

To enquire about booking your supercar or cherished vehicle in for a Ne Plus Ultra detail, please contact us using the e-mail address given below, providing details about your car and its history. If requested, we can help to arrange for bodywork repairs and wheel refurbishment to be completed ahead of the main detail. In addition, we can also help to arrange fully insured and fully enclosed collection and delivery services throughout the UK and Europe, and will consider international travel requests from further afield providing that suitable working conditions can be provided at the destination.

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