Caring for your new paint finish ::: Simple tips!

Do not use a machine polisher unless you use exactly the right pad, polish, and technique. This will cause squiggly swirl marks on dark colors that will look awful in the sunlight.

• Use touch less car washes
  
• If you wash your own car, rinse thoroughly before touching the surface. Wash with a soft clean wash mitt. Any dirt between the paint and your mitt will scratch the finish.

Use a “California Water Blade”
Squeegee and a micro fiber during cloth (available from us) for drying your car. Micro fiber drying cloths absorb more water, leave virtually no streaks or water spots. Combined, these 2 products are much faster than the conventional chamois and not induce fine scratches like other synthetic drying cloths.

Wax your car at least 3 times per year.
We recommendVery Cherry Wet Wax (available for sale from us). Wet Wax is easy to apply, comes off in one pass of the cloth when dry, contains no harmful abrasives, and removes light oils and tars. It provides long lasting water beading and gloss.

Stone Chips and Scratches
It is true that clear coated finishes are more durable than single stage finishes, however, it is not as bulletproof as many of us would like. Stones hurled at the car at 60 plus miles an hour will chip the paint.

 

For these unfortunate realities, we provide touch up paint with every repair. The best way to apply touch up paint is to open a paper clip, dip the end 1/8” into the paint, and touch the tip of the clip to the center of the chip. Delicately move the tip of the clip around just enough to distribute the paint to the edges of the chip without going over the edges. You should only bother with chips that are 1/16” or larger. Touching up chips smaller that that looks worse that just leaving the paint chip alone.

Don’t use a paintbrush!

It will apply too much material, and will slop paint beyond the boundaries of the chip itself.
Scratches can often be wet sanded out by us if they are not completely through the clear coat. If they are too deep to remove, we can often repair them without having to repaint the entire panel saving time and money.

Mission Statement

Marshall Auto Body has been managing the time, quality and cost of auto collision repair for 25 years. We offer complete insurance claims handling solutions and are dedicated to provide all customers with quality repairs and excellent customer service.

We are a family-owned and operated facility and have been serving Southeastern Wisconsin since 1978. We are committed and dedicated to restoring damaged vehicles to their pre-loss condition. All customers receive a warranty and our pledge of customer satisfaction on all repairs completed on their vehicles.

Por promise is to give you, our customer, the best service in the city.