Which is best?

Before buying my present Fuji White Evoque I was firmly in the "Sceptic" group regarding the benefits of having Paint Protection systems applied to my car. I was given a very good deal at Lookers Park Royal on GardX treatment when I purchased the Evoque and two years down the road I am very very pleased with the performance - even with just the 6 monthly wash with the GardX car wash shampoo and no other coating maintenance, it still beads beautifully when wet and dirt still comes off with just a light wash, even a rain shower is enough to restore the body work to gleaming white.

Now I have ordered a new car in Ipanema Sand and while Fuji wasn't too bad for not showing the dirt, Ipanema should be even better at hiding it, I have been offered Autoglym Lifeshine on the new car. Now on the Lifshine website it claims to have a similar sealing effect to GardX ............. so which one to go for?

PLEASE don't recommend GTechnique or whatever it is called as an alternative as I'm not prepared to apply it myself in November, I would prefer to let my dealership do it in their warm dry prepping area shared with numerous Bentleys also getting the same treatment.

(18-09-2013 05:07pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  Before buying my present Fuji White Evoque I was firmly in the "Sceptic" group regarding the benefits of having Paint Protection systems applied to my car. I was given a very good deal at Lookers Park Royal on GardX treatment when I purchased the Evoque and two years down the road I am very very pleased with the performance - even with just the 6 monthly wash with the GardX car wash shampoo and no other coating maintenance, it still beads beautifully when wet and dirt still comes off with just a light wash, even a rain shower is enough to restore the body work to gleaming white.

Now I have ordered a new car in Ipanema Sand and while Fuji wasn't too bad for not showing the dirt, Ipanema should be even better at hiding it, I have been offered Autoglym Lifeshine on the new car. Now on the Lifshine website it claims to have a similar sealing effect to GardX ............. so which one to go for?

PLEASE don't recommend GTechnique or whatever it is called as an alternative as I'm not prepared to apply it myself in November, I would prefer to let my dealership do it in their warm dry prepping area shared with numerous Bentleys also getting the same treatment.

I was an Autoglym sceptic, indeed, like you, I was a sceptic of all such treatments, but I had the Evoque done by an independent valet and have been very pleased with the result. I have no experience of other treatments, so can't compare, but the Autoglym still sheds dirt like you describe after 18 months. iwndeed, When it rains heavily, the car looks as though it's just been washed!

The valet did two cars for the price of one (I had my SL done at the same time), and I watched him applying the various stages. He did an extremely thorough job and took the best part of the day doing it. I'm not so sure I'd trust our local dealership when I wasn't there, though!

My friend has the Autoglym Life shine on her new Nissan Note, i'll ask how they are getting on with it. She got all the after care pack of AutoGlym products etc with the treatment and the dealer did it...

You don't have to apply gTechniq yourself...

http://service.gtechniq.com/

or

http://gtechniq.com/quote-me/

(I couldn't get on the website myself though for some reason, maybe blocked, or maybe down, and it ain't cheap!)

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Thanks Phil I'll give them a phone and get a quote

I am sure that the better treatments are very good when applied professionally, what gets me is the £350 that dealers charge, usually for some work experience lad to slap on £40's worth of protectant without the necessary prep. I apologise to any main dealers out there that do a proper professional job. There must be some of you out there

I think if you mentioned a clay bar to your average dealer valeter he or she would think you are talking about material to make a pot in Primary School

Tim.

If you manage to get hold of a GTechniq guy.

Have a word with your dealer to see if they will let him do the work on the dealers site, if you can it will be a good result.

Unfortunately the car is being delivered in London so I'll stick with HGG's Autoglym - if it's good enough for Bentley's and FFRR's its going to be fine on my RRE!