Ceramic Coating in Buckhead

Along Peachtree Road, from Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza down toward Buckhead Village, many owners live in high-rise buildings and park in shared decks. Those cars are shaded, but they rarely get washed at home. They go through a car wash instead, and an automatic wash is the most reliable way to swirl paint. A coating helps by letting the car be rinsed clean with less scrubbing, and it makes a hand wash quicker than a tunnel.

The residential side is the opposite. Around Tuxedo Park and West Paces Ferry Road the lots are large and the trees are old, and cars parked in the driveway take sap, pollen and droppings on the horizontal panels. There the coating's job is chemical resistance, and the 5-year coating is usually the right one.

Which of the two a car is, and how it is washed, is the first thing we ask about at inspection. It decides the coating more than the make or model does.

The studio is up the same road. Peachtree Road runs north out of Buckhead and becomes Peachtree Industrial, which passes the studio in Peachtree Corners. It takes 30 to 45 minutes depending on traffic, or a little quicker on 400 and 285 outside rush hour.

A coating needs indoor cure time, so this is a drop-off rather than a wait. Deck residents should tell us about clearance heights if they would like the car collected, because an enclosed transporter needs more headroom than a car does.