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Originally Posted by Tcoat
I plan to do an annual maintenance coat with my car. The dealer detailing shop will sell me the maintenance product and I can do myself. Figure I will get about 3 years out of it with maintenance and then will probably need some paint touchup and a whole strip and reapply. Mine takes a worse beating than most though. Getting much more than 3 years out of any of them is pretty optimistic.
Mine is the CarPro Cquartz which ranked #1 or 2 in all of my research.
https://www.topspeed.com/cars/the-be...-ar188655.html |
Cquartz is good stuff. I assume they used Cquartz UK as it's readily available to anybody.
On the off chance it is Cquartz pro[can only be installed by certified installers], they say 3-10 years. pretty broad. Cquartz UK is what I'm familiar with, and on my short list to buy/use next. Gtechniq crystal serum light is the other. Both cquartz and CSL offer a top coat you can install when you apply the base coating, but that is another can of worms.
They will likely give you carpro reload which is their topper maintenance spray. You can buy it directly from them or order it online. There is no hard rule on how often to use it. Being in canada I'd even do it biannually.
I highly recommend car pro's soap "carpro reset". It is the best soap I have used. It was impossible to find over the summer due to covid. I bought a bottle, loved it then couldn't find it anywhere.
I think 2-3 years is perfect for a daily used car. By then you'll want to give it a polish to touch up fine scratches, nicks etc. I'm going on 3 years and 75,000km and my paint still looks mostly defect free.[the PPF on the front helps]