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Cars evolved.
Car care hasn't.

A fundamentally different kind of automotive care brand.

Modern vehicles carry advanced ceramic clearcoats, piano black trims, soft-touch polymers, and precision sensor arrays. The machine moved forward by a generation. Most care products have not.

The vehicles changed.
The products didn't.

Modern production vehicles carry single-stage ceramic clearcoats, coated soft-touch polymers, piano black cluster panels, and flush sensor arrays. Each surface demands distinct chemistry.

The detailing shelf still sells 1990s formulation logic. High-alkaline foam, solvent-heavy cleaners, silicone-loaded tyre dressings. The gap is a generation wide.

Vehicle · Modern paint architecture
Surface · Piano black interior trim

Not loud. Not built around exaggerated claims or racing aesthetics.
Just thoughtful automotive care, for people who genuinely respect their machines and the surfaces they're made of.

Three products.
Every surface covered.

Each product in the Carve system is built for a specific surface, a specific failure mode, and a specific outcome. Not a shelf of options. A coherent care methodology.

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Product · Interior Detailer bottle

Interior Detailer

IPA-free. Piano black safe. Screen safe.

For: Piano black · Soft-touch · Screens · Alcantara

  • IPA free
  • Sub-200 GSM
  • Anti-static
  • Made in India
Product · SiO2 Preserve bottle

SiO2 Preserve

Restoration. Protection. Up to 6 months.

For: All exterior paint · Ceramic · PPF · Glass

  • pH neutral
  • Ceramic safe
  • Silicone free
  • Made in India

A system, not a shelf.

01

Weekly

Wash

pH-neutral wash that cleans without stripping the ceramic protection layer. Two-bucket contact protocol. Wheel-first sequencing.

CG Wash Concentrate →
02

Monthly

Preserve

SiO2-based protection maintenance. Restores hydrophobic behaviour on ceramic, PPF, and bare clearcoat. One application lasts up to six months.

CG SiO2 Preserve →
03

Weekly

Interior

IPA-free cleaning across all interior surfaces. Piano black, screens, soft-touch polymer, alcantara. Surface-specific application protocol throughout.

CG Interior Detailer →
04

Quarterly

Decontaminate

Staged decontamination: iron fallout, tar dissolution, clay bar, IPA wipedown. Run before every preservation application for maximum bond.

Coming 2026
01
Long-term surface integrity over temporary shine.
Every Carve formulation is built around preservation, not performance theatre. The metric is surface condition after twelve months, not a mirror finish after a single application.
02
Surface-specific formulation, not universal compromise.
Piano black trim requires fundamentally different chemistry than ceramic clearcoat. Universal products fail on modern surfaces. Not occasionally, but systematically and invisibly.
03
Material honesty, not shelf presence.
No synthetic fragrance masking aggressive solvents. No exaggerated claims. The only performance metric that matters is what happens to the surface over time.

What surfaces look like
after twelve months.

"The piano black panels on my GLA have been immaculate for eight months. Nothing else in the market even acknowledged that standard microfibre was damaging them."

Rohit S. · Mumbai

2023 Mercedes-Benz GLA 200

"After six months the ceramic coating on my Taycan still beads water the way it did after the first application. I hadn't experienced that kind of longevity before."

Ananya R. · Bangalore

2024 Porsche Taycan 4S

"The soft-touch trim in my Fortuner was beginning to feel degraded. Three months of the Interior Detailer brought the texture back. Genuinely remarkable."

Vivek M. · Delhi

2022 Toyota Fortuner Legender

Before · Piano black after 6 months of generic products

Microscopic scratching accumulated across the piano black cluster panel from standard microfibre use. Invisible under direct light. Clearly visible under any raking light source.

After · CG Interior Detailer · 6 months

Zero new scratching after six months of CG Interior Detailer and sub-200 GSM open-weave application. Surface integrity preserved. Original factory depth maintained.

Preservation
over
shine.

Gloss. Foam. Exaggerated shine. Racing aesthetics. Products built for a 1995 lacquer topcoat, sold in 2026.

Restraint. Preservation. Surface longevity. Material respect. Formulation intelligence. Engineered care.

Surface condition at twelve months. Not mirror finish at first application.

Start with the right product.

Not sure where to begin? Every vehicle is different. These are the three most common starting points.

Why generic products fail on current-generation vehicles.

Surface architecture in modern vehicles has changed fundamentally. The failure modes introduced by generic care products are specific, documentable, and entirely preventable. Understanding them changes every product decision.

Four failure modes.
All invisible until they aren't.

These occur with standard products, under standard use, on surfaces now standard across every production vehicle price point.

Failure Mode 01

High-alkaline cleaners degrade ceramic clearcoat protection wash by wash.

Most OEM ceramic clearcoats carry an active SiO2 layer as the topmost protection barrier. High-pH cleaners degrade this barrier progressively. The paint looks clean. The protection quietly disappears.

CG Wash Concentrate · the fix

Failure Mode 02

Alcohol-based interior cleaners permanently collapse soft-touch textures.

IPA concentrations above 15% cause soft-touch polymer surfaces to compress irreversibly. The texture flattens. It cannot be restored. Most commercial interior cleaners contain 30 to 70% IPA.

CG Interior Detailer · IPA-free

Failure Mode 03

Silicone tyre dressings migrate to brake components under normal driving.

High-sling silicone compounds migrate to brake rotors under normal operating conditions. On modern vehicles with caliper-forward geometries this significantly degrades brake performance. A safety failure inside a cosmetic routine.

Failure Mode 04

Standard microfibre permanently scratches piano black on every contact.

Piano black scratches at hardness comparable to coated glass. Standard 300–400 GSM microfibre causes permanent damage on every pass. Sub-200 GSM is the minimum. Every standard cloth in the Indian market exceeds the damage threshold.

CG Interior Detailer · piano black safe

The modern owner is not who the category assumed.

The Indian automotive owner of 2026 is more informed, more material-aware, and more emotionally connected to their vehicle than any generation before. They research paint correction before buying a car. They read spec sheets.

The care products available to them have not kept pace. Carve Garage is built for the owner who already knows that care matters, and who deserves a brand that knows it too.

Owner · Garage morning light
Founder · Workshop portrait

Started with a
precise observation.

The vehicles changed. The materials, the surface engineering, the trim technologies, the interior architecture. All of it moved forward by a generation. The care products at every retailer had not.

Carve Garage is that care system. Built in India, for owners more informed, more material-aware, and more emotionally connected to their machines than any generation before.

FoundedIndia · 2026
CategoryModern Surface Care
ApproachSurface-specific formulation
StandardPreservation over shine
PhilosophyPreserve, don't promote.

Every surface
demands a
distinct answer.

Hero · Ceramic clearcoat surface macro
01
Ceramic Clearcoat

pH-neutral formulations that clean without degrading the active SiO2 barrier. High-alkaline products destroy this protection layer wash by wash. Silently and irreversibly.

02
Piano Black Trim

Sub-200 GSM open-weave application only. The surface scratches at hardness comparable to coated glass. Every standard cloth sold in India exceeds the damage threshold.

03
Soft-Touch Polymer

IPA-free interior cleaners preserving micro-texture integrity. High-alcohol formulations permanently compress the surface. The tactile quality collapses and cannot be restored.

04
Screens and Sensors

Anti-static, streak-free, oleophobic-safe formulations preserving display clarity and sensor accuracy. No residue in any camera, radar, or LIDAR field of view.

05
Alloy and Brake Systems

Low-pH iron fallout removers safe for all modern wheel finishes. Silicone-free tyre dressings that do not migrate to brake surfaces under normal operating conditions.

Coming 2026
06
EV Architecture

Flush handles, aerodynamic underbodies, regenerative brake systems. Electric vehicle architecture creates distinct care requirements most formulations were never designed to address.

Formulation
intelligence.

The chemistry inside a care product is not incidental. It is the entire argument. Understanding what a formulation does, and what it quietly destroys, is the foundation of everything Carve Garage is built on.

What SiO2 ceramic coatings do, and what slowly destroys them.

Ceramic clearcoat is a sacrificial layer requiring pH-neutral maintenance. Most OEM vehicles since 2016 carry this as standard. High-alkaline shampoos, the majority of the market, degrade it with every wash.

IPA thresholds that permanently damage soft-touch trim.

Soft-touch polymer degradation is cumulative, invisible until it isn't, and irreversible. The threshold is 15% IPA. Most interior cleaners are four to five times beyond it.

Why fragrance almost always indicates aggressive solvents.

The strong chemical scent in most detailing products consistently masks solvent concentrations that have no place near modern polymer surfaces or OEM paint chemistry.

Piano black GSM requirements and why standard microfibre is wrong.

Surface hardness on piano black is equivalent to coated glass. Every standard detailing cloth sold in India exceeds the damage threshold. The scratching compounds with every application.

Paint · Ceramic surface macro
Interior · Piano black trim
Detail · Soft-touch polymer
Cabin · Screen cluster detail

Journal.

Editorial stories around ownership culture, garage rituals, detailing philosophy, surface care education, and modern automotive culture. Long-form. Unhurried. Written for the owner who reads before they act.

Journal · Ceramic clearcoat article

What high-alkaline shampoos are doing to your ceramic clearcoat, wash by wash.

Since 2016, most production vehicles ship with ceramic clearcoat as standard. The SiO2 layer is the topmost protection barrier. Most mainstream shampoos degrade it with every use.

Read
Journal · Piano black under raking light

Why piano black panels are permanently damaged by standard detailing cloths.

Piano black scratches at hardness similar to coated glass. Standard 300–400 GSM microfibre causes permanent microscopic damage on every contact. The damage accumulates invisibly.

Read
Journal · Formulation bottles closeup

Why fragrance in car care products almost always indicates aggressive solvents.

The strong chemical scent in most detailing products masks solvent concentrations that have no place near modern polymer surfaces or OEM paint chemistry.

Read
Contact · Workshop interior · India

Let's talk about your vehicle.

For trade enquiries, press, stockist applications, or questions about your vehicle's surfaces. We're here. Unhurried. Attentive. Precise.

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