Detailing & Car Wash

Honestly? It depends far more on how the car is washed than on the bottle we used. A single-layer 9H coating on a car that is machine-brushed at a roadside wash will look tired in a year. The same coating, hand-washed with a pH-neutral shampoo and brought in for its 6-month check, easily runs its full warranty. Our coatings carry warranties from 1 to 5 years depending on the product and the number of layers, and we log every maintenance visit against yours.

If you park outside, drive in daily traffic and plan to keep the car five years or more — yes. It makes washing dramatically easier, keeps the paint from oxidising in the sun, and protects the clear coat from bird lime and salt air, all of which show up in the resale value. If you change cars every two years and always park in a basement, a good wax polish every quarter is the more sensible spend, and we will tell you so.

No — please give it seven days. The coating cures in our dust-controlled bay for the first 24–48 hours, but it keeps cross-linking and hardening for about a week afterwards. Water, shampoo or rain in that window can leave permanent high spots. After day seven, wash it as often as you like — that is the entire point of the coating.

Wax sits on the paint. It gives a warm glow, costs the least, and washes off in roughly 8–12 weeks. Ceramic (SiO₂) chemically bonds to the clear coat, forming a hard, glassy, hydrophobic layer measured in microns that lasts years. Graphene is ceramic with graphene oxide blended in — it resists water spotting better, dissipates heat more evenly (which matters on a dark car in our summers) and typically outlives standard ceramic. Wax is a cosmetic; the coatings are protection.

It resists them — it does not make the car bulletproof, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. A 9H coating adds a sacrificial layer that shrugs off light swirl marks from washing and fine road grit. It will not stop a key, a kerbed bumper or a shopping trolley. If stone-chip protection on the bonnet is what you are after, that is paint protection film (PPF), which is a different product — we install it, and you will find it as its own package above.

A proper foam wash every 2–3 weeks is the baseline. A full interior deep clean once a year — twice if you have kids, pets or drive with the windows down. Paint correction is not a routine job: you do it once, protect the result with a coating, and then you should not need to cut the paint again for years. If a detailer is telling you to correct your paint every season, they are removing clear coat you cannot get back.