New car ceramic coating in Colorado Springs — protect it before the first wash.

Three tiers, and every one of them includes full paint correction across the entire vehicle rather than charging for it separately: the 3-Year Gtechniq EXO v5 from $899, the 5-Year Crystal Serum Light from $1,099, and the 9-Year Crystal Serum Ultra at $1,599 as a package. Starting prices are for a standard sedan or coupe — larger vehicles are quoted after inspection. The builder above adds it up with whatever else you want done at the same time.

Usually yes, and usually only a little. A new car arrives by rail and by truck, sits on a lot, and then gets a dealer prep wash before handover — and that prep wash is where most new-car swirls actually come from. Under direct light you will see them. It is light work compared to a neglected car, and since correction is already included in every coating tier, it costs you nothing extra to have it done properly before the coating goes on.

Before, if you can manage it. Every automatic wash and every dealer prep wash puts fine marring into soft factory clear, and each one adds a little more correction work later. If you have already had it washed, nothing is lost — correction is included and we take it back out. But the cleanest version of this job is the car coming more or less straight from delivery.

The coating system itself. The 3-Year uses Gtechniq EXO v5, the 5-Year uses Crystal Serum Light, and the 9-Year uses Crystal Serum Ultra — which is only sold to accredited installers and cannot be bought off a shelf. The Ultra tier is also a bundle: C5 Wheel Armour is included, a $400 value, along with G1 ClearVision Smart Glass. All three include full correction on the whole car.

Yes. Gtechniq C5 Wheel Armour is a dedicated wheel and rim coating — it is included with the 9-Year Ultra package, and available as a $300 standalone add-on on the 3-Year or 5-Year. G1 ClearVision Smart Glass is included with the Ultra tier as well. Tell us your wheel count and finish when you book, because a multi-piece or painted wheel is a different amount of work to a standard alloy.

Yes — three tiers. Monthly is $89 for one coating-safe maintenance wash a month, Bi-Weekly is $159 for two, and VIP is $279 a month for two washes plus interior upkeep at every visit and the six-month Gtechniq ceramic topper rolled in. Every visit uses a pH-neutral two-bucket hand wash and non-acidic wheel cleaner, because the fastest way to ruin a coating is to run it through the kind of wash it was bought to avoid. If you would rather not commit, the six-month Ceramic Coating Maintenance visit is $199 on its own.

Yes, and any shop telling you otherwise is setting you up to be disappointed in year two. A coating makes washing dramatically easier and stops contamination bonding — it does not stop the car getting dirty, and it does not survive being run through an automatic wash with harsh chemicals and spinning brushes. Washed properly it keeps performing for its full term. Neglected or washed badly, the hydrophobic behaviour drops off long before the coating is technically worn out.

Coating is a multi-day service. The correction takes as long as the paint takes, and then the coating has to cure undisturbed rather than going straight back out into Colorado weather. We will give you the real window when we quote it, and valet pickup and return is available if dropping it off is awkward.

This is the easiest version of interior protection there is, because nothing has stained yet. Gtechniq I1 Smart Fabric on cloth and Alcantara, L1v2 Leather Guard on leather, and C6 Matte Dash on trim — all applied to surfaces that are still factory-clean. It is quoted after we see the materials rather than sold at a flat rate, because a full-leather interior and a cloth one are not the same job.