Car detailing and paint protection in North Leeds
The ring road and the A61 into town
North Leeds cars do short, stop-start miles on busy roads, which means brake dust, road film and a lot of traffic grime rather than motorway chipping.
Brake dust is iron. It bonds to paint and wheels and it will not wash off. Iron fallout remover and clay take it off, and a coating stops it sticking in the first place.
Roundhay Park and the tree-lined streets
The streets around the park are beautiful and hard on paint. Sap, lime and leaf staining in autumn, all of it acidic, all of it etching lacquer if it sits.
Coated cars shrug most of it off. Uncoated cars parked under limes through August come to us needing correction, every year.
Driveways, gravel and block paving
Gravel drives throw stones at sills and rear quarters, and block paving holds grit that gets picked up by a mitt if the car is washed carelessly.
A pre-rinse and two buckets solves most of it. On the round we bring our own water, so nothing is washed with a hosepipe that has been dragged across the drive.
Commuting into the city
A lot of these cars sit in traffic on Scott Hall Road or the A61 every morning, which is the worst case for brake dust and the best case for a coating: low miles, high grime.
Monthly visits suit these cars better than fortnightly, because they get dirty rather than damaged.
Performance cars and weekend miles
Alwoodley and Adel have plenty of cars that do few miles but matter a lot to their owners. Those are our multi-stage correction and full-body film jobs, and they usually stay on the round afterwards.
We will always say when a car does not need the bigger job. Most do not.
Which part of town, which work
| Where | The cars we see | What we usually recommend | Van there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alwoodley and Adel | Garaged performance cars | Multi-stage correction, film, coating | By arrangement |
| Roundhay and the park streets | Cars under trees | Coating, and the monthly round | Thursdays |
| Moortown and Chapel Allerton | Daily commuters, brake dust | Decontamination and a coating | Thursdays |
| Meanwood and Weetwood | Family cars on drives | Enhancement and the round | Thursdays |
| Horsforth side | Mixed, school-run miles | The maintenance round | By arrangement |
Correction, coating and film are all done at the unit. Maintenance details come to you on the days shown.
Recent work in North Leeds
All our work
What North Leeds says
Live Google reviews, straight from our own profile.
Weekly maintenance round. The car never looks dirty now.
Front film on the GT3, edges wrapped. Can't find a seam.
Brought a tired classic back to deep gloss. Worth every hour.
North Leeds questions
The ones we get asked on the phone most weeks.
Is thirty minutes each way a problem?
Not for us. Collection and return is free for jobs of a day or more, which covers correction, coating and film.
Which parts of north Leeds do you cover?
Alwoodley, Adel, Roundhay, Moortown, Chapel Allerton, Meanwood and Weetwood on the Thursday round. Further south we quote.
My wheels are covered in brake dust that will not shift.
That is bonded iron, not dirt. It needs a chemical decontamination, and then a coating on the wheel faces so it stops happening.
Can you park a van on my street?
Usually, and if not we will work from the nearest space. Tell us when you book if parking is tight and we will plan around it.
Do you do fleet or multiple cars?
Yes, and there is a discount for two or more at the same address on the same visit.
North Leeds and the towns around it
We collect and return across all of these from the Kestrel Court unit.
- North Leeds
- Knaresborough
- Ripon
- Wetherby
- North Leeds
- York
Finding the unit
Our unit is at Kestrel Court, off Hookstone Road on the south side of town, a short walk from Hornbeam Park station. Most of North Leeds is inside ten minutes, so correction, coating and film happen in a lit, enclosed bay, and maintenance details come to your drive.
- Where
- Unit 7, Kestrel Court, off Hookstone Road, North Leeds
- Getting here
- Five minutes from the town centre by the A61 or Hookstone Road
- Collection
- Free within three miles of the unit, which covers most of HG1 and HG2
- Nearest station
- Hornbeam Park, a six-minute walk; North Leeds station is two miles
Mon to Fri 8am to 6pm, Sat 9am to 2pm
Drop off from 8am. We will text you when the car is ready.
