Aftercare
Your coating does most of the work from here. This is the short version of what keeps it looking the way it did when you picked the car up. Save this page to your phone, it is easier than trying to remember a conversation from handover day.
The first 7 days
Keep it dry and do not wash it. The coating is still hardening onto the paint and it wants to be left alone while it does. Rain will not hurt it. If it gets properly dirty in that window, give us a call rather than attacking it yourself.
Wash it every 2 weeks
Two buckets, one with your shampoo and one with clean water to rinse the mitt. Work top down. It is quicker than it used to be, because barely anything sticks to a coated car.
Use a pH neutral shampoo
The one in your kit is the right stuff. Normal car wash detergent and dish soap are designed to strip, and over time that is exactly what they do.
Dry it properly
A clean drying towel, laid on and drawn across rather than scrubbed. More coatings get marked during drying than during washing.
Get bird mess and sap off quickly
Same day where you can. Warm water, damp microfibre, no pressure. The coating gives you time, it does not give you forever.
Use your booster spray every 3 months
Takes ten minutes after a wash and puts the beading and the gloss straight back to how it looked on day one.
Automatic brush washes
The fastest way to undo a good coating. Those brushes have been through hundreds of filthy cars and they carry the grit with them. Touchless is fine.
Wax or polish over the top
It hides the coating, kills the beading, and you have paid for something you can no longer see working.
Washing in direct sun on a hot panel
Water dries before you can get to it and leaves mineral spots behind. Early morning, evening, or in the shade.
Harsh or high pH cleaners
Wheel acids, degreasers and traffic film removers on paint. If you would not put it on your hands, it does not belong on your coating.
Letting it sit filthy for months
A coated car handles neglect far better than an uncoated one. It still does not enjoy it.
Worth being clear, because this is where most of the disappointment in this industry comes from.
It does block UV so your paint does not fade. It stops bird mess, sap and fallout etching in. It keeps contamination from bonding to the surface, holds a deep gloss for years, and makes the car dramatically easier to clean.
It does not make your paint scratch proof. A coating is chemical protection, not physical. It will not stop a shopping trolley, a key, or a stone off the motorway. Nothing applied to paint will. If that is what you are after, the answer is paint protection film, and we are happy to talk you through it.
One visit a year, within 30 days either side of the anniversary of your coating. About 45 minutes.
We inspect the coating panel by panel, decontaminate the paint and put a fresh booster over the top so it performs like day one. It is also the one thing your warranty depends on, so we will remind you when yours is due.
Nothing else on this page is a condition of your warranty. This is advice to help you get the most out of what you paid for, not a list of rules waiting to catch you out. The check-up is the only thing we ask of you. Read the full warranty terms.
Do not wait for the anniversary if something looks wrong. Water stopped beading and a wash did not fix it, a patch that looks hazy or uneven, a mark you cannot identify, or something landed on the car that you would rather we dealt with. It is always a smaller job when we catch it early.
Phone: +642040008133
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