MAX WAX technician in waterproofs cleaning the wheels of a grey Cupra in the rain outside the Shoreham studio

Sussex, Surrey & Hampshire

Rain doesn’t
stop us.

It rarely rains all day. Showers pass, we work around them, and parts of the job actually go better wet. Book with the forecast looking grim — we’ll still be there.

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The bit nobody expects

We were going to get it wet anyway.

Our vans carry their own water and we wash by hand. A shower doesn’t take anything away from that — it adds to it.

Snow foam and shampoo need to dwell to do their work. On a hot, dry day they start drying on the panel before they’ve finished lifting the dirt, and we’re fighting the clock. In the rain they stay wet and keep working.

Softened dirt also lifts more willingly, which means less grit being dragged across your paint. On a light-rain day, a hand wash is often the safer wash.

The weather that worries you is doing half the pre-rinse for us.

Wet day, full day

Most of the work doesn’t care what the sky is doing

A wet forecast changes the order we do things in. It rarely changes whether we do them.

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Interiors, start to finish

Shampooing, steam, leather, headlining, glass. Entirely unaffected — and the natural thing to move to while a shower passes over.

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Wheels, arches and tyres

The filthiest part of any car, and a job that was going to be soaking wet from the first minute regardless.

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Decontamination

Fallout, tar and traffic film removal are chemical processes. They work to their own timings, not the forecast’s.

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The Shoreham studio

Indoors at Brighton City Airport, under controlled lighting, whatever it’s doing outside. The weather-proof option.

Where we won’t pretend

One step of a ceramic coating needs dry paint

The coating itself has to go onto dry, clean paintwork — put it on wet and the chemistry won’t bond, and you’d be paying for a finish that won’t last. That one stage is the only part of the job the rain genuinely stops.

Everything before it carries on as normal, and we still come out to you. The wash, the decontamination, the paint correction that makes up most of the hours — all of that happens in the wet. When it comes to laying the coating down, we work out the best way with you: wait for the panels to dry, get the car under cover, or do that final stage at the Shoreham studio. Weather changes, so we don’t pretend to know on Monday what Thursday looks like — we just keep you in the loop as it unfolds.

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Our promise

We turn up

And if the weather means we can’t complete the job to our usual standard, we come back and finish it.

No debate, no quibbling about who booked what on which day.

Don’t take our word for it

Customers who booked us in the rain

From our Google reviews — the ones that mention the weather.

Questions

Wet weather, answered

Do you still come out if it’s raining?

Yes. We always turn up. Our vans carry their own water, we wash by hand, and a shower doesn’t stop a wash — it helps the products dwell. If the forecast looks bad we’ll simply reorder the job, doing interior work while the rain passes.

Can you do a ceramic coating in the rain?

Most of it, yes. We still come out to you, and the preparation — washing, decontamination and paint correction — all happens whatever the weather. The one stage that needs dry paintwork is applying the coating itself, so we plan that around the conditions: waiting for the panels to dry, getting the car under cover, or doing the final stage at our Shoreham studio.

What happens if the weather stops you finishing the job?

If we can’t complete the job to our usual standard because of the weather, we come back and finish it. That’s the promise.

Should I reschedule if rain is forecast?

You don’t need to. It rarely rains all day, and most of what we do — interiors, wheels and arches, decontamination, hand washing — carries on regardless. Keep the booking and let us work around it.