Sunshine Coast QLD / since 1989

Car Detailing Products on the Sunshine Coast: the Warana Supply Counter

We supply the clay, compounds, polishes and cloths. You or your detailer do the work. Queensland Paint Supplies sells detailing and finishing products over a counter at 5 Main Drive, Warana, and does not detail or polish customers' cars. If you wanted the job done for you, almost every other Sunshine Coast search result for detailing is a mobile or studio operator, and you are welcome to buy what they ask you to supply from us. The people who get real value here are the two who do the work themselves: the panel shop finishing its own repair, and the owner dealing with overspray, industrial fallout or swirl marks in the driveway. Arrive with the defect rather than a product code and the counter can point you at the step it actually needs.

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Open: Mon-Fri 7:30am to 4pm
Counter: 5 Main Drive, Warana
Since: 1989

A dual action polisher being run across a dark panel beside glaze and micro polish bottles

Local since 1989

Same Kawana site for over 35 years

Overview

This page sits on a URL that says detailing, so it is worth being blunt about what is behind it. Queensland Paint Supplies is a retail and trade paint counter at 5 Main Drive, Warana. We sell clay blocks, compounds, polishes and cloths, and we do not detail or polish customers' cars. Almost every other Sunshine Coast search result for detailing is a mobile or studio operator who will do the job for you. If that is what you came for, book one of them. If they hand you a shopping list, or you would rather supply the products yourself, bring the list here.

The counter

Why Queensland Paint Supplies for automotive detailing

Two buyers walk up to this counter needing opposite answers. A panel shop has flatted a repair, cleared it, and can now see sanding scratches under the shop lights and holograms once the car sits outside. An owner has found overspray across the bonnet, or fine swirls after a quick wash. The first is a correction job with a known cause and a published order. The second often is not, and that is where money and clear coat get wasted.

The rule underneath both is one two separate manufacturers on our shelf publish independently: decontaminate before you protect. Juice states that clay removes environmental contamination such as iron fallout so wax or sealant can bond, and Finixa says its cleaning clay bar prepares the paint for polishing or waxing. Overspray, bug debris, road tar, rail dust and fresh water spots sit on top of the clear coat, not in it, and Finixa describes its clay bar as non-abrasive. Reach for a compound first and you cut away clear coat to remove something that would have lifted off.

Only after that does cutting make sense, and that order is published too. Juice's directions for NXT Cut run cut, refine, protect: the compound on a wool cutting pad, buffed between 1500 and 1800 rpm until gloss appears, the same compound again on a green sponge pad for a swirl-free finish, then a coat of its sealant. N-Cut Compound is published at 1200 to 1800 rpm and its directions name no pad, so the band to follow is the one printed on the tin in your hand, not one carried across from another product.

A machine polisher cutting back a dark panel beside finishing glaze and micro polish

Same corner since October 1989.

Commerce Ave, Warana

Overspray or industrial fallout speckled across the paint

Airborne paint mist, brake dust and iron particles settle on a parked vehicle and bond to the top of the clear coat rather than soaking into it, alongside bug debris, road tar, rail dust and fresh water spots. The reflex is to reach for a cutting compound, which removes clear coat to shift something sitting on top of it. Clay lifts the same contamination without cutting, because the bar is non-abrasive. Clay blocks for removing overspray and industrial fallout are a stated reason customers come to this counter. Finixa's directions have the bar used wet with a dedicated clay lubricant and the surface wiped with a clean microfibre between passes.

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Fine swirl marks in the paint after washing or a hurried polish

A cutting compound on a wool pad leaves its own marks behind. Juice's directions treat that as expected and call for the same compound to be run again on a foam pad to leave a swirl-free finish. Stopping at the cutting step leaves the paint looking glossy in the shade and hazy in direct sun, and it leaves the surface unprotected until a sealant goes on. Juice's own directions treat the refining pass as part of the job rather than an extra: NXT Cut is buffed on a wool cutting pad between 1500 and 1800 rpm until gloss appears, then run again on a green sponge pad for a swirl-free finish, then a protective coat.

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Touch-up paint and finishing products laid out on a polished red panel

Holograms and micro-scratches showing up on a finished repair

A flatted repair is cut with a high-cutting paste, and Finixa's own sequence treats that first step as setting up a second one rather than finishing the job. The panel passes inspection in the booth and fails in the customer's driveway. Finixa flags dark colours as where the finishing step matters most. Finixa publishes the repair sequence as a two-step: high-cut until no sanding scratches are visible, wipe and check with a clean cloth, then the finishing polish.

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One dust nib, a spray zone, or paint that has just gone flat with age

Light defects do not come from sanding, so they do not need a cutting-and-refining pair. Finixa lists dust removal, spray zones, contamination after sanding and gloss on old flat paint as one-step-paste work. A buyer sold a two-step system for a single nib has been oversold, and the extra step costs time and clear coat for no gain. Finixa claims its one-step paste returns 95 per cent gloss and saves up to 50 per cent of polishing time, which is the maker's figure, not ours.

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Juice polishes and compounds

Cutting compounds and polishes from Juice, a brand built for the automotive panel industry rather than a retail shelf. Juice publishes the sequence for its own compounds: NXT Cut on a wool cutting pad between 1500 and 1800 rpm until gloss appears, the same compound again on a green sponge pad for a swirl-free finish, then protection. N-Cut Compound is published at 1200 to 1800 rpm with no pad named in its directions, so read the tin in front of you rather than assume the band carries across.

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Finixa polishing compounds and pastes

One-step and two-step polishing pastes for correction work and for finishing a refinish repair. High-cut until the sanding scratches are gone, then the finishing polish Finixa says removes holograms and micro-scratches, which it notes matters most on dark colours.

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Clay blocks

Clay for lifting bonded contamination off the top of the clear coat instead of cutting it away. Clay blocks for overspray and industrial fallout are a stated reason people come in here. Finixa's directions call for a dedicated clay lubricant and a clean microfibre alongside the bar, and a fresh bar once the old one picks up grit.

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Finishing cloths

Microfibre cloths for wiping between steps and buffing off protection. Cloths are not the afterthought they look like: Finixa's clay directions have you wipe with a clean microfibre and inspect between passes, and Juice's compound directions have the excess removed with a clean microfibre towel.

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Protection after polishing

Juice's published sequence ends with a protective coat rather than bare paint after cutting. This is the manufacturer's step, not a line this counter can promise off the shelf. Ask us and we will confirm what protection we can supply before you buy the compound.

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Stocked, matched, and backed by experience

Why panel shops and DIYers buy here

Queensland Paint Supplies has traded from the same Commerce Avenue site at Kawana since the branch opened in October 1989, and is now owned by Cory and Candice, a local family. That is the plain argument for driving to a counter instead of ordering a compound online: the advice arrives attached to the product, and it has been given from one address for more than 35 years. The counter sits in the Warana light-industrial pocket close to the Kawana trade belt, on the corner of Main Drive and Commerce Avenue with the entrance in Commerce Avenue. Doors are open Monday to Friday, 7.30am to 4pm, and closed at weekends. Van sales are run by Gavin Pollock, who has spent close to 35 years in the refinish industry; the van carries a spectrophotometer for hard-to-identify colours and most day-to-day products, so a trade account holder should ask what can travel out with a paint order. On the shelf are Juice polishes and Finixa consumables alongside clay blocks and finishing cloths.

Local since 1989
Same Kawana site for over 35 years
Concept Paints distributor
Including the NO MIX system
Cromax and BESA refinish
Cromax and Bernardo Ecenarro
Custom colour matching
Spectrophotometer on site and in the van

Questions

Asked at the counter

Do you detail cars, or can I book a cut and polish with you?

No. Queensland Paint Supplies is a supply counter at Warana: we sell the clay, compounds, polishes and cloths, and you or your detailer do the work. Almost every detailing result on the Sunshine Coast is a mobile or studio operator, so book one of those if you want the job done for you, and buy whatever they ask you to supply from us.

Do I need a two-step compound, or will a one-step polish do?

It depends how deep the defect is. Finixa aims its one-step paste at lighter work: removing dust, polishing spray zones, clearing contamination after sanding and bringing gloss back to old flat paint, and it claims 95 per cent gloss and up to 50 per cent less polishing time. A repair that has been flatted needs the two-step instead, high-cut first and then a finishing polish. Bring us the defect and we will tell you which.

How often will protection need redoing here on the coast?

More often than a dry inland climate would ask for. Sunshine Coast Airport, Bureau of Meteorology station 040861, records a mean annual 9am relative humidity of 71 per cent across 16 years of record and mean annual rainfall of 1492.6 mm across 31 years. Juice ends its published cutting sequence with a protective coat rather than leaving the paint bare, which is the step most buyers skip.

Can a panel shop get detailing consumables on a trade account?

Ask us, because we cannot promise it here. Gavin Pollock runs van sales to panel shops and has spent close to 35 years in the refinish industry, and the van carries a spectrophotometer for hard-to-identify colours plus most day-to-day products. The practical question for a shop is which consumables travel with the paint order and which need collecting from Warana, so phone 07 5493 2088 and we will sort it out.

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Ask us for a colour match or a stock check

Tell us the vehicle, the colour code if you have one, or just what you are trying to finish. We will tell you what you need and what it costs.

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Need automotive detailing?

Describe the defect before you buy a compound. Tell us what you can see, what has already been tried, and whether the paint is a dark colour, and we can point you at the step it needs rather than the largest tin on the shelf. Phone 07 5493 2088 or call in Monday to Friday between 7.30am and 4pm. We are at 5 Main Drive, Warana, on the corner of Main Drive and Commerce Avenue, with the entrance in Commerce Avenue.

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