How Soon After Buying A New Car Should You Coat It

As soon as the car can be properly inspected, prepared and left to cure. There is no deadline after which paint becomes unsuitable, but every week of driving adds contamination, and contamination adds work.

Is The First Week Really The Best Time

It is the easiest time, which usually makes it the cheapest. Less bonded contamination, fewer wash marks and less to undo. It is not a magic window, and nobody should be pressured into rushing a booking because of one.

What Should Be Checked First

• Transport film or adhesive residue left behind
• Water spots and bonded contamination from yard storage
• Swirl marks or polishing haze from dealer preparation
• Chips, scratches or dents to raise before the car is signed for
• Panels waiting on rectification, which should be sorted first
• Trim, glass and wheels, which need their own products

That last point matters. If a panel is going back for rectification, coating it first means paying to have it done twice.

Should You Avoid Driving It Before The Coating

No. Drive the car. A few hundred kilometres adds road film that comes off during preparation anyway. What is worth avoiding in the meantime is an automatic brush wash, which puts swirls into brand new paint faster than anything else.

What If The Dealer Has Already Waxed It

That is normal and not a problem, it just has to be removed. Wax sitting on the paint stops a coating bonding, so it comes off during preparation. It does mean the car is not as clean as it looks.

Does New Paint Need To Cure First

Factory paint is fully cured long before the car reaches you. Fresh repair or respray work is different, and that panel may need to be left for a period before anything goes over it. If part of the car has been resprayed, say so.

Is Waiting A Few Months A Problem

Not at all. Plenty of people drive a new car for six months and then decide. The paint will need more cleaning and possibly some correction by then, which is worth factoring into the price rather than being surprised by it.

What If Your Delivery Date Moves

Delivery dates move constantly. Because Gloss One is mobile, the booking follows the car rather than a workshop calendar, which makes it far easier to shift a date without losing the slot.

Wares comes to your home or work anywhere in Sydney, so a new car does not have to be driven anywhere to be protected. Several of his reviews are from owners who booked exactly this way on a brand new car.

Ceramic Shield starts at $790, normally $1,490, and covers every exterior painted panel with a 10 year Magnum coating. Compare the ceramic coating packages, or tell Wares your delivery date and he will work around it.