Been Offered Ceramic Coating From The Dealer - Advice

[Shane2801]

Hi guys
Looking for advice. Ive been offered ceramic coating for my new white stinger from the dealer. Is it worth getting? They originally wanted $1900 but I negotiated $1600. It gets me tinting, the ceramic coating, seat leather protection, carpet scotch-guarded
I usually dont go for this sort of stuff but I thought Id ask here.

 

[General_Vodka]

Have them 2 step polish and paint correct the entire car and it's a deal. Otherwise you are wasting your time and money since even from factory the car can have contaminates and imperfections in the paint. When you ceramic coat you then seal those in forever. What's carpet scotch guard? Doesn't matter, get tux mats and cover the carpet area. Tint also should be ceramic or other quality tint. Seat leather protection is just a spray of the shiny leather guard stuff? If so you can probably do that yourself.

Hi guys
Looking for advice. Ive been offered ceramic coating for my new white stinger from the dealer. Is it worth getting? They originally wanted $1900 but I negotiated $1600. It gets me tinting, the ceramic coating, seat leather protection, carpet scotch-guarded
I usually dont go for this sort of stuff but I thought Id ask here.

 

[Del]

I had a similar offer from my dealer, however the coating wasn't actually ceramic coating, just "similar performance".

I took it to a dedicated shop instead and got full paint correction, ceramic coating, and ceramic tinting done all the same time, cost $3,000. They did a brilliant job on it, and the place regularly does wraps/coatings/tinting for Ferraris and other exotics (there was a Superleggera getting PPF'd while I was there), so looks like supercar owners trust the place too.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I bet the dealer application is cheap stuff. That's a very high price.

 

[stoopid]

Have them 2 step polish and paint correct the entire car and it's a deal. Otherwise you are wasting your time and money since even from factory the car can have contaminates and imperfections in the paint. When you ceramic coat you then seal those in forever.

This.

Most of those things, even the tint, are high profit addons for the dealer. Being that actual, quality ceramic coating costs almost twice that at a legit shop, I'd also be concerned about corner cutting to keep it profitable (especially after you've negotiated down the price).

9/10 it's almost always better to bring the car to a shop that specializes in these things.

Scotch guard and leather treatment are things you can do, and will want to do periodically. So get the chemicals and apply yourself, you're only avoiding doing it once and paying them a premium for that luxury.

Also worth noting, you could ceramic coat yourself although it's fairly involved (especially the prep and application has to be done fairly 'exact'). Definitely one thing I'd happily pay a pro to do.

 

[boosted1g]

I would say no.

$1900 is a little steep IF you are getting good quality tint, stage 1 paint correction and good quality ceramic coating.
It is an absolute rip offf when you are likely getting $150 tint, and a spray on "ceramic like" coating.

As others have stated, your new car will still need at least a stage 1 paint correction before ceramic. My car already had some "dealer installed" swirl marks from their car washes.
FYI I paid $1300 for 4 year ceramic + paint correction.

 

[nhcowboy28]

Walk

 

[RedCal]

Get a quote from a proper detail shop - anything the dealer does will likely be farmed out, and the dealer will charge you double what the shop did
$200 tint job - via the dealer $500, so your $1600 of services are really worth less than $800.

Here's my hot take on it
Leather protection - Get a bottle of CarPro Leather, or Gyeon leather shield and to it yourself if you have red or light coloured seats and wear jeans that the colour rubs off of... if they are black seats you can skip it - Cost $70 and an hour or two of work
Carpets - same idea CarPro CQuartz Fabric is $20 bucks and will take about an hour
Tint - Get a pro to do it
Ceramic coating - Get a pro, or get a pro to do the prep, then you can apply the coating - cost about $250 for the pro's prep, about $100 for the coating if you go for the long lasting multi year ones. If you aren't going multi year, and good de-con and wash, plus $30 bucks of spray ceramic and you are done

 

[Shane2801]

Thanks guys. Appreciate the advice. I think Ill stay away