Gen-3 Ceramic Coating

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I had the Yaris Cross done today at home - luckily the rain stopped earlier and so the coating could be done mid-morning.

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Questions & Answers

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Didn't bother with internal protection, but all paintwork (including door shuts), side windows and pano roof.  I paid £450

 

[dash]

Hope they did a good job🤞. Was the car machine polished first to remove swirls and marring? When mine was done it took best part of a day to polish the car before having the IGL Elixir coating applied the following day. £400 including wheels and door shuts.

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5 minutes ago, dash said:

Hope they did a good job🤞. Was the car machine polished first to remove swirls and marring? When mine was done it took best part of a day to polish the car before having the coating applied the following day. 

Car is only a couple of weeks old and an inspection of the paintwork showed it was OK to apply.  The car was de-waxed and the coating applied.  Very happy with the finish - remarkably smooth and slippery.

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5 hours ago, dash said:

 £400 including wheels and door shuts.

Forgot the wheels, they were done as well, as were the mirror glass.  He recommended windscreen and rear glass not be done as the wipers will skid on the surface.

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UPDATE

Since it was applied, we've had light rain, heavy rain, flooded roads when the river burst its banks, mud on road from the farms and the car has NOT BEEN WASHED YET.

I didn't believe the sales-speel but all I can say is - paintwork is still clean. I've cleaned the windscreen and the outer seals are grubby if you open the doors (mud, grass, detritus etc) but otherwise very happy with the coating.
 

Will be cleaned using Meguair's Wash & Wax and jet wash on low power this weekend (as recommended)

[Primus1]

I had the gen3 applied to my car, I use the gen3 shampoo to help keep the coating , mine gets really filthy especially now winter is coming, I drive a country road everyday to work and back and this really coats the car ..

[Chas G]

Someone I know bought a new "showroom" 74 plate VW 1.5 tcross r-line which had obviously had a ceramic coating applied to the painwork by someone who knew what they were doing. The finish on the paintwork was really showroom quality with no obvious swirls or orange peel and still looks immaculate even after all the rain we have had recently. 

The finish on my Yaris Cross was nowhere near as good. I could tell the ceramic had been applied though because of the time it took me to get the "overspray" off the bumper, plastic trim and windscreen edges. Still worth having done though in my opinion.

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2 hours ago, Chas G said:

I could tell the ceramic had been applied though because of the time it took me to get the "overspray" off the bumper, plastic trim and windscreen edges. Still worth having done though in my opinion.

The Gen 3 was applied to all of the plastic bits, trim, bumpers, wheel arches etc regardless of colour of the items - no swirl marks on anything. All the glass was done with the exception of the windscreen - he would do it but said I would be unhappy as the wiper will skip and miss or smear the water. I left it and use Meguiars glass cleaner on it.

[Chas G]

@jthspace when I went to look at a Corolla in Steven Eagell showroom Watford recently I remember glancing at a Chr and thinking I wished my car paintwork looked like that.....I put it down to the dichroic lighting......but thinking about it now, I bet it had been treated to an expert ceramic coating not the usual post sale forecourt job done by one of the apprentices.