Two weeks since I have my car permagarded Immediately after the process it has been with Scuderia for a week and came back with nothing but dust I suppose it was indoors most of the time. Since then it has been raining and it seems that for the first time in life the rain indeed washes all the dirt away. In the two weeks since the Permagard I have not even touched the car once yet it looks as if it has been just cleaned, even waxed. So far so good; but two weeks is obviously way too early for a real judgement so I will keep updating my impression as the time goes.
I think i am up for this. Don't have tiem to do it now but maybe in a couple of weeks. Do you know if they work weekends? Also is it £140 as they say in EVO ?
I think they do work Saturdays. They also have a mobile unit so they can come to you but prefer to work in the workshop. It is quite a lengthy process so I can understand the convenience of the workshop. The paint protection is £140+ VAT. I have added the full internal + glass protection and the total was 260+VAT (all included) You only suppose to wash it with cold water and the washing effect of the rain is quite encouraging. The annual renewal is £65. Personally, I think the leather treatment is an expectation and prefer to continue nourishing mine. For that end, I have purchased a leather maintenance kit (cleaner, conditioner and protector) for £33.
From our Evo friend on here - "its not a good as they initially thought", apparently it's 'worn' out after a few months (don't forget Evo long terms are a few months behind). Be interested to hear how it is after a few months. Rick
Carbonrider Thanks for letting me know. I wanted to ask about the interrio treatment too. I did clean and nourish mine which is crema and I found it made it a bit darker. I wanted to get someone to clean it proffessionally as I'm no good at these things. Do you knw what they actually do i.e. do they clean first and then apply something like "scorchguard"? Richard: Does he still think it's worth it and how long has it lasted? From my point of view I spent over £350 on cleaning/polishing products last year. OK I did not use them all but even if I needed to do this every 6-9 months on the outside I'm still quids in I suspect.
My understanding is, they clean the leather first, condition it (I presume thats nourishing and softening) and then spray a sealer to increase stain resistance. It had not darken mine on the contrary, the driver seat is which is always darker (colour rubbing of my trousers?) has been brought back to original colour. I have taken some picture last Sunday with my mobile phone - I will post My under tonight when I am back home. With all fairness, the quality of the pictures is so low (regardless the 1.3 mp phone camera) that I doubt they will add any value to this discussion.
I have a guy who valets cars for a living. spoke to him yesterday as he was polishing the saab about these finishes. in his view stay well away, they look good to start with but decay pretty quickly and are a pain to treat later. be interesting to hear from others who are in the same game.
Thanks for the pics ! As you said however, you can't really tell. I think I will give it a go and see.
This might be totally different product but I red somewhere that some of these permanent paintworks protects was first used in boats. My boat had treatment which made it look like new when applied (so I heard) but after 5 years it looked awful. Luckily only big color stripe had this treatment but still it needed wetsanding to get everything removed and then painted which was caused lots of work. (painting car is easy task compared to boats because of the size). Propably this product has absolutely nothing to do with the product I had in my boat but at least it made me very suspicious for these kind of "permanent" treatments. So IMO. the best but expensive way the get your car VERY shiny and to protect paintwork is to spray multipel layers of good clearcoat and then good wax (even Zymol can't beat that... )
