Edinburgh and the Lothians

Your Driveway Is the Studio

A full detailing van with its own water, its own power and its own lighting. We work on your drive or in the office car park, and you get the car back the same day without moving it once.

We bring the water

Tank, generator and lighting in the van, so nothing is needed from you

1

Interior deep clean

Hot water extraction through the seats and carpets, every vent and seam done by hand, leather cleaned and fed, and the glass finished last so there is nothing left on it.

Price an interior
Hot water extraction being run through a car seat
2

Paint correction

Snow foam, two bucket contact wash, decontamination, then a machine polish under proper lighting so the swirls actually come out instead of being filled in for a fortnight.

Price a correction
A machine polisher being worked across a bonnet
3

Protection and sealing

Sealant or a ceramic coating once the paint is actually flat, never before. Coating swirled paint just locks the swirls in under something you then cannot polish.

Price protection
A car covered in snow foam before the contact wash

Testimonials

What Edinburgh Says

Driveways in Morningside, Leith, Corstorphine and out as far as Livingston.

Three years of supermarket car washes undone in a day. I had genuinely forgotten the paint was that colour, and he did it all on my drive without me moving the car once.

Callum ReidMorningside

Two kids and a dog. He got out marks I had written off completely and the car did not smell like a chemical factory afterwards, which is the bit I was worried about.

Fiona DunbarCorstorphine

He talked me out of a ceramic coating until the paint was corrected properly, which cost him money that day. That is the whole reason I have used him three times since.

Ross MackinnonLeith

Did it in the office car park while I worked. I came down at five to a car that looked better than the day I picked it up from the dealer.

Priya NairEdinburgh Park

Fourth time now. Same standard every visit and he turns up when he says, which in this trade is somehow the rare part.

Gordon BellLivingston

Why Us

Why a Van Beats a Unit

You never move the car, and you can see exactly what is being done to it.

Get Started
A car footwell being extracted before the clean

The quick way

  • Rollover washes put the swirls in
  • One bucket and a sponge grinds grit in
  • Glaze fills the marks for a fortnight
  • Interior wiped over, never extracted
  • You drop the car off and lose a day
A finished interior with the dashboard and vents done

The Ashgrove way

  • Snow foam, then a two bucket contact wash
  • Swirls machined out under real lighting
  • Coating only goes on flat paint
  • Seats and carpets hot water extracted
  • Done on your drive while you work

Who turns up

Two Vans, Three of Us

You get told which van is coming and it is the person who quoted you.

Innes Ashgrove, owner

Innes Ashgrove

Owner, quotes every car himself

A car under snow foam before the wash

The second van

Interiors and maintenance details

Rab Nicolson, paint correction

Rab Nicolson

Paint correction and coatings

FAQ

Before You Book

Including the one that says do not bother with a coating yet.

A maintenance detail is two to three hours. A full interior and exterior with a single stage machine polish is a full day, and a two stage correction on neglected paint can be two. We tell you which one your car needs after we have seen a photo, not after we have arrived.

Neither. The van carries its own water tank, a generator and its own lighting, so we can work on a driveway, a street or an office car park without plugging into anything of yours.

Only once the paint has been corrected. A coating locks in whatever is underneath it, so putting one on swirled paint means paying to preserve the swirls for three years. If your paint is not ready we will say so and quote the correction first.

Light rain is fine for an interior and we work under a canopy. Heavy rain or anything below about four degrees stops paint correction, because the products stop behaving, so we move you rather than rush it. You are never charged for a move we made.

A maintenance detail starts at 85 pounds, a full interior at 160, and a single stage correction with protection from 380 depending on the size and condition of the car. You get a fixed number before we come out.

Contact

Send Us the Car

Make, model, and a photo in daylight if you can. Paint tells us more in one photo than a description ever does, and you get a fixed price back the same day.