Auto Body Painting for Newmarket

A finish that winters north of the moraine

Winter is what ages paint in Newmarket. The salt season runs long, and the brine sits on lower doors, rockers and bumper covers from November to April. The concession roads toward Sharon and Queensville and the gravel shoulders on Leslie north of Green Lane throw stones that chip the leading edge of the hood and the bottom of the doors. Every chip is an opening, and by the third spring the clear coat around it has lifted into a pale ring that no polish will fix.

Summer finishes the job. Cars that live on a driveway in Stonehaven or Glenway sit in full sun with no canopy, and horizontal panels — hood, roof, deck lid — fade ahead of the doors. Sap and bird droppings under the older maples around Main Street and Fairy Lake etch clear coat in July heat. None of that requires a full respray. It usually means one or two panels refinished properly before the damage gets under the clear and spreads to the next one.

Matching colour to a car that has lived outside

Your paint code describes the car on the day it left the plant. A ten-year-old silver that has done ten Newmarket winters is not that colour any more, so the code is where the mix starts, not where it finishes. Our estimator pulls the code from the door-jamb label in your photo, mixes to it, then tints against your actual panel and sprays a test card that is checked under corrected light before anything touches the car. The refinish is blended into the panels on either side, because the eye forgives a gradual transition and catches a hard edge from across a parking lot.

Preparation is most of the work. Old damage is taken back to sound material, primed, blocked flat and sealed, since paint magnifies whatever is underneath it. The spray happens in a downdraft booth, the cure is controlled rather than left to the weather, and the result carries a lifetime warranty on paint and refinish for as long as you own the car.

• Colour tinted to the panel as it is today, not just the factory code
• Test spray-out checked under corrected light before the car is painted
• Blend into adjacent panels so there is no visible edge
• Lifetime warranty on the refinish, in writing at pickup

Why paint work suits a long drive

Refinishing schedules better than collision work because there is rarely hidden damage, and that matters when the shop is 36 kilometres away. From your photos our estimator can tell you before you leave Newmarket how many days the car will be with us, which panels are involved, and whether a blend into the door or fender is needed. Booth time is booked before you drive down, the rental through your coverage is waiting at drop-off if the work is a claim, and the return is one trip timed to the cure, not a guess.

One coverage note for Newmarket drivers: a key line down the door in the Upper Canada Mall lot or vandalism at the GO station is a comprehensive claim with your normal deductible, and fault never enters into it. We price the repair both ways so you can decide whether to involve your insurance company at all.