New Porsche detailing

[williaa68]

I would look at using a sealant like nanolex or gtechniq on a brand new car. I am just about to get the wife's new fiat 500 done - for £350 for interior and exterior it is a no-brainer in my view. Her old one is 4 years old and has cleaned up beautifully.

[otolith]

A friend of mine had his new 911 detailed before he took delivery. He said that when he picked it up it was parked next to another car awaiting delivery, and the difference was very noticeable.

I went to the 991 launch event at my local Porsche dealer. I don't know what they'd done to the cars, but the paintwork was noticeably imperfect.

[Mondrian]

Leaning towards wax/sealant as I am not going to be putting so many miles on the car or make it an easy target for the birds - admittedly for some twisted reason I find the idea of applying wax to the curvaceous lines of 991 really appealing. Sounds like Carnauba wax will provide more depth as opposed to ceramic or glass-based sealants at the cost of durability. However Richard (PoshTwit - nice chap) did suggest an alternative, polymer glaze followed by synthetic wax for more depth. What do you guys think?

[Chris_VRS]

95% of the end result is in the prep stages - where paintwork is concerned this is to have the panels as defect free as possible, usually involving one or more machine polishing steps.

To give you an idea - I could put a £30 wax on one panel, a synthetic sealant on the next panel, a £2.5k wax on the next panel & a 'coating' like G-techniq, Modesta etc on the next panel - you'd stand back and they'd all look the same to the eye!

The difference is of course in water behaviour & durability.

If it's a daily driver, living outside then I'd suggest a coating for it's durability.
If it lives in the garage and only sees weekend mileage and/or you enjoy the process of waxing a car yourself then I'd suggest the wax route.

I'd be happy to chat chat through options and or assess the car as Poshtwit has offered above.

cheers

Chris

[Craikeybaby]

That would work, you'd get the best of both worlds, but is obviously more work.

Polished Bliss have some good advice on choosing wax/ sealant.

[Mondrian]

Thanks guys, you have all helped me narrow the choices down. Would be ideal if anyone had pics of same car/colour/panel with Carnauba Wax in one & Sealant in another for comparison or are the differences not so much to get anal about?

[Chris_VRS]

That's the thing you won't see a difference by eye, let alone in photo form - it'll just look 'shiny' & I hate using that word !