So, I buy this Acura TL SHAWD. Coolest car I've ever owned, but the paint is 4 years old and I figure it needs detailing. My friend from Vape City, Jason, tells me he's "got a guy" who does detailing. I've never had a car detailed before. Never had a car I wanted to have detailed, but I love this car, so I headed out to Elite. Hard to find their shop because it's right in the "armpit" of this little car shop jungle in Schaumburg, IL.
Edgar and Gerry were there when I brought the car in and had a lot of information to share. Stuff like ceramic coating and other things I'd never heard of. They asked me what (ultimately) I wanted the car to look like and I told them I wanted it to be totally unique from any other TL and that I hated chrome.
I'm guessing they had just moved into this place because the shop had little in the way of modern equipment, but they were my friend's "guy" so I had them follow me home and take my Acura back for the transformation. They delivered the car a few days later and it looked nice, but a few issues popped up with the paint and over the weeks to follow, the appearance quality dwindled. I mentioned my dissatisfaction to my friend on my next visit to the vape shop, and he was visibly shaken by the news, so much so that he immediately called Gerry and told him.
I work as a manager of a grocery store, and put in crazy hours, so my spare time is extremely limited, and I really don't have time to mess around with things like getting my car fixed.
I got a text from Gerry the same afternoon: "Hey Eagle, this is Gerry from Elite Auto Factory. We heard your trim was starting to peel. Let us fix this for you at no cost. Give me a call when you are free". To give you an idea of how my free time works, this text was in May and I returned his text in August!
When I brought my Acura back for the show-n-tell (and by the way, I was expecting the kind of arguments I usually get when I try to explain why I'm not pleased with something), Edgar and Gerry owned all the mishaps and even pointed out a few things I hadn't seen. They showed off their new paint booth and paint system they upgraded to and told me all the things they would do to get me back into my happy place.
Last night, around 7:30, Gerry and Edgar brought me the most beautiful, shiny, monstered out black Acura you've ever seen in your life! At their own expense, they replaced some of the peeled parts and even put my new license sticker on my plates for me. My "Blacura" is now a one-of-a-kind car, and I couldn't be any happier with the results. I had the windows tinted, as you can see from the photos, and it really looks amazing. The ceramic coating and detailing made it hard to find an angle I could photograph it from because of the sun glaring off the paint and we discovered my "black" paint was actually "black pearl"!!
Over the years I have found there are only two kinds of business owners: Those that don't care and those that do. Edgar and Gerry at Elite really care about their customers satisfaction and their finished product. read more