Ceramic Coating
A liquid polymer applied by hand that bonds with your factory clear coat. Hydrophobic, UV resistant, and rated for five years of protection. Water beads, dirt slides off, and the paint keeps its depth.
Ceramic coating and paint correction in Vaughan
Paint worth
protecting.
Multi-stage correction and ceramic coating, done by hand and mapped under inspection light. We keep the finish honest.
Three services.
Done properly.
We do not run a menu of fifty things. Three services, each done by hand, each priced honestly. Correction is quoted per car because no two finishes are alike.
Paint Correction
Machine polishing to remove swirl marks, oxidation, water spots and light scratches from the clear coat. Every panel is mapped under 5000K inspection light before a dual-action polisher touches it.
Full Detail
Exterior decontamination, clay bar, paint-safe wash, interior deep clean, leather conditioning, glass polishing, and wheel and barrel detail. The complete reset, inside and out.
Prices are starting points for a clean, undamaged car. Heavier correction, larger vehicles and paint in poor condition cost more, and we tell you that before we start rather than after.
Every panel gets mapped before anything gets polished.
Correction starts with an hour of looking, not polishing. Under 5000K light at a raking angle, the clear coat gives up what a showroom bulb hides. These are the four places we check first on any car.
This is an inspection map, not a results gallery. The numbered points show where we look and what each defect is, on a clean car photographed for this concept. Nothing here claims to be a correction Northline performed.
01 Flat door skin
Swirl marks show worst on a large flat panel, because there is nothing for the eye to follow but the light. Most of them come from washing, not driving.
02 Handle recess
Grit collects where a wash mitt drags and lifts. Clear coat is thinnest along these pressed edges, so this is where correction has to be gentlest.
03 Rear quarter curve
Curvature hides orange peel until you sight along the panel rather than at it. Factory texture can be levelled, but not always removed, and we say which.
04 Wheel and caliper
Iron fallout from brake dust bonds into the finish and keeps etching. It needs chemical decontamination before any machine work starts.
Where the time actually goes
Correction is sold by the hour, so it is fair to say where the hours go. Each stage below lists what happens, roughly how long it takes, and the point at which we stop and phone you instead of carrying on.
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Inspection
45 to 60 minutes
Panel by panel under 5000K light at a raking angle, with a paint depth gauge on every panel. Defects get mapped and photographed before anything is touched.
We stop here if the clear coat is already too thin to correct safely. Polishing thin paint buys a week of gloss and costs you a respray.
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Decontamination
60 to 90 minutes
Iron remover for brake fallout, solvent for tar, then a clay bar over every painted surface. Machine work on a contaminated panel grinds that contamination into the finish.
We stop here if we find fresh paint or filler that will not survive machine work. That is a body shop conversation, not a detailing one.
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Correction
4 to 12 hours
A test spot first, measured and inspected, to find the least aggressive combination that actually works. Only then do we go panel by panel with a dual-action polisher.
We stop here if the defects run deeper than the test spot predicted. You get a call and a revised number before we carry on, never an invoice that grew on its own.
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Protection
2 to 3 hours, plus an overnight cure
The coating goes on by hand, one panel at a time, then levels and cures in a controlled bay. Curing is chemistry, and chemistry does not care about anyone's schedule.
We stop here if the car is wanted back early. We will not release a coated car before it has cured, because rain on an uncured coating undoes the entire job.
Most of the bay is ordinary cars
Detailing sites tend to show a wall of supercars. Ours would be dishonest if it did. The work that pays the rent is commuter sedans, family crossovers and the car someone just bought used and wants sorted before winter. These are the shapes it takes.
Northline is a fictional studio built as a portfolio concept, so there is no client roster and none of these are customer cars. Each caption describes what that kind of car typically needs, not a job anyone performed.
The boring parts, in writing
Northline is licensed to operate in Vaughan and carries garage keepers insurance, which is the cover that actually matters to you: it protects your car while it sits in our building, not just our own tools. The certificate is on the wall by the door and we hand you a copy before we take the keys, without being asked.
The coating warranty runs five years and covers gloss and water behaviour, not damage. If the coating stops beading and sheeting the way it did on collection, we strip it and reapply at no charge. If a stone chips the panel, if the car is resprayed, or if it goes through an automatic wash with spinning brushes, the warranty on that panel ends. We would rather write that down now than argue about it in year three.
An annual inspection keeps the warranty live. It takes about twenty minutes, it is free, and we remind you rather than waiting for you to forget.
If you collect the car and something is wrong, say so in the bay. It goes back on the lift and gets fixed that day where fixing it is possible. Where it is not, or where we caused the damage, the insurance above pays to put it right. There is no version of this where you are told a defect was already there, because the inspection photographs will show whether it was.
- Who does the work
- The person who inspects your car is the person who polishes it. No subcontracting, and no handing the polisher to whoever happens to be free.
- Where it is kept
- Indoors and locked from the moment it arrives until you collect it. Coated cars stay inside overnight to cure.
- What we photograph
- Every panel at inspection, before anything is touched, and again at collection. You get both sets whether you ask for them or not.
- Deposits
- None for a detail. Correction bookings hold a date with a deposit that comes off the final bill, refundable up to 48 hours before.
Two ways in, depending on the car
A detail or a coating can hold a date on the phone in a couple of minutes. Correction cannot be priced from a menu, so it starts with a look at the car and a number you get before any work begins.
- Book a detail or a coating
- Tell us the car and the service. We confirm a date, a price band and how long you are without the car.
- Get a correction quote
- Twenty minutes in the bay under inspection light, paint depth measured, then a written number. There is no charge for the inspection and no obligation after it.
Fastest way to reach the bay
(905) 555-0147Tuesday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm. If we are under a car we will miss the call, so leave a message and you get one back the same day.
That worked.
In a live build this would reach the shop and you would get a call back the same day, usually within a couple of hours.
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(905) 555-0147