My vehicle is new. Does it need to be detailed?

We frequently receive phone calls from customers who have recently purchased a new vehicle. When asked what detail service they would like, they often reply “well, it’s a brand new car so it doesn’t need much”. Unfortunately that statement often proves to be a bit off base.

Just because your vehicle is new doesn’t necessarily mean the paint finish is flawless. Often times when a vehicle leaves the factory there are many paint imperfections that are missed by quality control personnel. Some of these imperfections are dirt specks, run lines, wet sanding marks, pig tails from a D/A sander, and hologramming from improper polishing techniques.

If the vehicle is shipped from out of state or travels by train it can be subject to many contaminants along the way with no protection. Then when it arrives at the car dealership many times the vehicle is washed improperly by inexperienced lot attendants causing scratches and swirl marks in the clear coat. Ideally before you take delivery ask them not to wash your vehicle.

Here is how our New Car Detailing service works. Just schedule an appointment for an exterior wash. First we will gently wash your vehicle, then we will put it under our lights and start our quality control inspection. If we find any paint imperfections, we will recommend our paint correction process and a ceramic coating application. If the paint is in good shape we will recommend a ceramic coating application only. Then we can maintain your vehicle’s paint finish moving forward. 

We offer new car protection services at a fraction of what the dealers charge and the ceramic coating’s we offer are carefully chosen well known brands, tested on our own vehicle’s and more durable compared to the cost effective products used by the dealer. Often times dealerships will offer a “lifetime ceramic coating” and say if you purchase this you will never have to apply a coating again. 

These so called lifetime ceramic coating packages are usually accompanied by warranties, unfortunately most consumers do not realize that these warranties require you to have a ceramic Si02 silica spray applied every six months to a year and prohibit you from polishing your vehicle. 

Because customers rarely, if ever, return to have the said Sio2 silica spray applied. This is easy money for the dealers. We have customers come into our establishment frequently and say “but I purchased a lifetime ceramic coating from the dealership, why does my paint look so bad?”

This is because they are often left with the false expectation that a “paint protection program” will mitigate paint damage from road contaminants, scratches, swirls mark, bird droppings, tree sap, acid rain and washing your car abrasively using a brush or automatic car washes in some way and this is simply not true.

This idea of a ceramic coating that will protect your vehicles paintwork forever is a great one and we wish it were true, but unfortunately there is no such product on the market.

However there are ceramic coatings that can last for several years with regular maintenance. We offer one, three and five year ceramic coating applications and maintenance services to keep your coating very hydrophobic for a long time. Part of our service includes sending you the ceramic coating maintenance wash product links to you via email and giving you some tips on how to maintain your vehicle’s finish at home as well. 

We know you’re proud of your new car. Protect your investment with our ceramic coatings for exterior paint, wheels, fabric and glass.

Recent photos of a new Lexus getting our exclusive New Car Detail.