Spa Auto Valentin «2024»

By: [Staff Writer] Location: Francorchamps, Belgium (The Ardennes)

“A customer came last winter with a new Audi RS6,” Valentin recalls. “He wanted to drive to the Alps. We installed a hydrophobic ceramic layer that lasts seven years. He sent me a photo two months later—the car was covered in salt and grime. He rinsed it with a garden hose, and it looked like it had just left our shop. That is the power of molecular bonding.” Despite the lasers, the thickness gauges, and the Swiss chemistry, Spa Auto Valentin is ultimately a human business. spa auto valentin

The “Clean Room” at Spa Auto Valentin is a positive-pressure environment. You have to step through an air shower (like in a semiconductor factory) to enter. Here, cars are draped in self-healing films from Switzerland and Japan. He sent me a photo two months later—the