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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.

To call it a “car wash” would be an act of linguistic violence. It is, as the name implies, a spa —a place of thermal healing, deep cleansing, and rejuvenation. But instead of tired humans, the clients here are titanium-wrapped supercars, vintage thoroughbreds, and daily drivers that their owners love like children. The story of Spa Auto Valentin begins not with a business plan, but with an obsession. Founder Valentin (who prefers to let his work speak louder than his biography) grew up in the shadow of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. While other children dreamed of driving the cars, Valentin dreamed of preserving them. spa auto valentin

In the village of Francorchamps, just a stone’s throw from the legendary circuit that hosts the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, there is a place where the roar of internal combustion engines fades into a whisper. It sits unassumingly on the industrial periphery, but to those who know, it is not a garage. It is a sanctuary. The “Clean Room” at Spa Auto Valentin is