Hello Kansas City! Welcome back to the Spoke Automotive Refinement Kansas City Car Detailing Podcast. We are just abundantly glad that you’ve joined us on this podcast and that you are as interested in cars as we are, which is saying something because I personally have lived in nine different states. I’ve traveled all over the world.
I’ve been to Thailand, I’ve lived in Mexico, all kinds of walks of life and I literally have never met anybody more passionate about really anything but specifically about cars than Thomas Till. We are so blessed to have him at the helm of the business, leading the charge. Thomas Thill, thank you so much for joining us tonight on your busy Kansas City Car Detailing schedule.
Thank you for having me back on and I just have to tell you once again, that was an incredible lecture. I aim to please. Well, it’s true.
I personally think you do an amazing job at what you do. You’ve done work on my car, on my family’s cars, I’ve seen you, your work in person and it is completely astounding. You’ve worked for some of the highest end people in Kansas City and you performed simple car detailing jobs all the way up to something that could take you a week or two like on a jet and it is just absolutely astounding what you do.
Thank you. It has to be really fun doing a job like that, that’s such a visible difference and what a great effect it has on somebody because if you get in your car and you have a really long day and you get in it and you’re like, it’s clean, it smells nice, especially those of you that maybe like, if you’re like me, in the winter months and you’ve got snow on your shoes and you sit in your car and your floor mats get all salty and wet, now everything’s all just, make you feel like you don’t want to go anywhere because you have to get in your car. When Thomas works on your car, you just get into it feeling like you could rule the world.
Like you will honestly, your businesses, your family, your wife or husband will be just so abundantly glad that you got your car detailed because you yourself are going to feel happy about the world after you’ve worked with Thomas Thill. We’re about to solve all the world’s problems. We’re about to solve all the world’s problems.
I’m for it, I love it. So today on this podcast we’re going to be talking about Kansas City Car Detailing clear coat restoration in Kansas City. Now for those of you that don’t know about clear coats, Thomas, can you share with them about what a clear coat is? Is it the topping of the nail polish and somebody’s done with it? Like, what is a clear coat? Is it something you add? Is it something you’re removing? What is a clear coat? So a clear coat is something on really any modern paint job, like anything past the mid 90s has a clear coat on it from the factory.
It’s what they spray on the car to seal in the paint. So in the early, earlier days of cars up until like the early 90s, they had a single-stage paint job which was just a base coat of paint. There was no protection over it and then they came out with a clear coat, which is a clear layer of essentially paint that protects your paint from… Like the top coat when you’re doing your nails.
That’s actually a really good comparison. That’s a really good comparison. Yes, that’s exactly what it’s like.
Now what’s the difference between that and a clear bra? Well, a clear bra is something that can be removed, that can be peeled off, but a clear bra is a plastic shield that goes on the vehicle after the vehicle has been painted, but you can peel it off. Clear coat is like, like this, this car that we’re in right now has a clear coat. You can’t peel it off.
It’s just basically like the paint essentially. You have to beat it out of it. Huh? You have to beat it out of the top layer.
It’s not like a peelable thing. Yeah, you, you, you have to sand it down basically. Yeah, exactly.
So tell us a little bit about Clear Coat Restoration Kansas City. So that is what a Clear Coat Restoration Kansas City is. Why would it need to be restored? Well, it’s kind of interesting.
The idea of a vehicle fresh off the showroom floor needing a Clear Coat Restoration Kansas City, it’s kind of an interesting Kansas City Car Detailing concept, but it really is factual that a brand new car can utilize a clear coat restoration. When you get a new car today, they have what’s called an orange peel or paint texture, and that texture gives it this wavy look when the sun hits it. It’s not smooth.
It’s got a wavy look to it. So that’s an orange peel. Okay.
As far as older cars or even, you know, cars that are four or five years old that have been washed a lot, brushed up against, or just improperly washed, they have micro scratches, swirls, micro marring, and so restoring the clear coat is the process of introducing heat to the finish and then rearranging, essentially melting it, melt it down, and then it flattens out. It fills in all those little swirls. If we’re removing orange peel or texture, we are actually thinning it out to reveal a mirror-like finish on the Kansas City Car Detailing surface.
If somebody has, like, rock chips in the front of their car, or an acrylic vine that you ran into the garage maybe once or twice or thrice, and the paint has kind of chipped in this spot, are you able to, during this process, get paint that matches the car or do any sort of fixing of those things when you’re working on the Clear Coat Restoration Kansas City? Absolutely. So, rock chips are an interesting thing, and I’ve really dove deep into perfecting the process of rock chip repair. What I do is I’ll take, like, a medical syringe and I’ll fill it with the touch-up paint, and then I’ll actually let the drop of paint fall into the rock chip rather than dabbing it, because dabbing it leaves a high spot.
Yeah. And then after it dries, I’ll wet-sand that section to make it smooth out, and then I’ll correct that area, which makes it almost invisible to the naked eye. Wow.
How do you actually find that person’s color? So, there’s several different ways to do it. You can either search it through the VIN to get the color code, or if you have a unique color, it’s really easy to just search online the paint code. Some manufacturers are weird, like McLaren has these Kansas City Car Detailing colors called MSO, McLaren Special Order Colors, and they actually don’t offer a paint code to the public.
So, if you have a McLaren MSO car, the only way to get any sort of paint repair done, you have to ship it back to McLaren. Porsche is the same way with their PTS colors. They don’t offer the paint code to the public, because they don’t want people spraying a car that exact color.
So, with their unique colors, you can’t get the paint code, but with any manufacturer, you can get the paint code. That’s why I really like working with Lamborghini, because Lamborghini is owned by Audi, and they’re not, they’re not snobby like that. So, you can, you can get any Lamborghini color pretty easily.
Ferrari is kind of the same way, but like Bugatti, McLaren, some Porsche, and then Pagani, it’s very hard to get the paint code for them. Makes sense. What about something that has like, kind of like the ventilator you were working on the other day, that chrome, like the grill or something like that, are you able to also restore that to look shiny again? Absolutely.
I’ve learned that there’s, there’s, there’s certain things that I have a gift with, and there’s certain things I don’t have a gift with, and polishing nickel-plated finishes, like on the Bentley, I’m, I’m good at, and I can make them look good. Perfecting them is still something I’m learning, but you can still make them look night and day different with our, with our services. So, if somebody is wanting to get the cue to talk to you more about Clear Coat Restoration Kansas City, how would they do so? The best way to get a hold of me for any Kansas City Clear Coat Restoration service is to give me a call at 620-282-0402.
We can go over all of the different nuances of the services over the phone. I can walk you through what, break down the different levels of services that we offer. You can also go online to BespokeRefinement.com and check out all the different Clear Coat Restoration Kansas City services that we offer.