Car Detailing for Volvo S80

Detailing your Volvo S80

The S80 is a big, soft Volvo sedan that a lot of GTA owners have kept well past a decade, and it mostly needs its age addressed: oxidized paint on the roof and hood, foggy headlights and beige leather that has gone grey from years of the wrong cleaner. We polish what can be saved, restore the headlights and bring the leather back with a proper cleaner and a matte conditioner, then seal the paint and the pitted chrome for the winter.

What we watch for on a S80

• Sandstone Beige leather on these cars has usually been cleaned with the wrong products for years and looks grey or shiny; a proper cleaner and a matte conditioner help
• Clear coat on the roof and hood is often oxidized and the headlights yellowed by now; a correction and a headlight restoration make the biggest difference
• The flat trunk lid and hood collect bird-dropping etching that a polish removes
• Salt pits the bright window surrounds on an S80 over the years; a metal polish and a sealant slow it down
• The soft seats sag and the leather creases on the driver's side; we clean and condition gently and never use a stiff brush on cracked areas

Luxury cars: soft paint, delicate trim

Premium interiors use more leather, open-pore wood and gloss trim, and premium paint is often softer. We use gentler chemistry, soft microfibre and slower machine passes so nothing is marred.