Best detailing treatment for a brand new car

[Ved]

Having seen the state of new car paint I'm going to put mine into a local detailer to have it corrected and protected when it arrives in May. I haven't had a car detailed professionally before, I'm just an amateur with two buckets, so what sort of steps and stages should I expect them to take with a new car?

[Eurorob]

All depends how far your willing to go and how much you want to spend? We're doing a light detail on a 1week old vehicle at presant so that it slows us to apply a G tecniq coating, however you could go further and do paint correction to get rid of peal and make the paint finish look flatter but beware of using some one with serious knowledge and experience because if they mess this up it'll be needing paint work to correct it, a light detail and coating could cost anywhere from £350+ or a for a paint correction you could be into the thousands

[Summit_Detailing]

Most detailers worth their salt will offer a New Car Preparation of some sort.

You want to be looking for an element of machine polishing to prepare the paint surface and a coating (Gtechniq/Gyeon etc) for long term durability and ease of washing.

cheers

Chris

[Ved]

Summit_Detailing said:

Most detailers worth their salt will offer a New Car Preparation of some sort.

You want to be looking for an element of machine polishing to prepare the paint surface and a coating (Gtechniq/Gyeon etc) for long term durability and ease of washing.

cheers

Chris

Much appreciated. The chap who prepares the AM Works cars lives close by so I'll drop him a message and go from there.

[Alex_225]

As said, looking into having a ceramic coating or similar applied. Provided they'll be correcting the paint and prepping it properly a coating should last years.

I'm looking at having Kamikaze ISM applied to my CLS at some point this year.

[anonymous-user]

I saw a 17 plate BMW 7 series being taken through an EU hand wash yesterday by a BMW technician. I do hope that this isn't the norm for prepping their cars for sale. I suppose it could be a demonstrator.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 26th March 09:03

[Stig]

Or learn how to do it yourself?

I took delivery of my Mustang with no dealer prep at all. Experience has shown that they do far more damage than good when 'cleaning' it.

Car was thoroughly cleaned, lightly machine polished, then Gtechniq applied. It took 2 days to do (properly).

Then again, you're looking at about £100 in materials alone so probably better to get a pro to do it!