[Glen e]

I have coated 8 to 10 cars as long as I’ve been in this hobby. I’ve used opticoat, cquartz, 22 PLE, and one other one I can’t remember. I get perfect results I don’t need 25 hours to do it. Usually it takes 6 to 7 hours of polishing, using two polishes and many pads, and a lot of elbow grease on a Saturday. Then I come back on a Sunday and it takes me 2 to 3 hours to actually apply the coating. You definitely can do it yourself if you want to, And there are many detailers that will do the car from bumper to bumper including the tires and interior and everything else and maybe get 15-20 hrs. out of it. The real key is finding out what the detailer is going to do. It doesn’t take 15 hours to polish a NEW car, which is what we are talking about here. It might take a lot longer for a five-year-old car that had major damage to it. But this is a new car forum. In my opinion you should be paying somewhere between 600 and $1200 for a nano ceramic coating. All just my opinion and my experience . By the way , the first Google link that spider put above is my car. That’s my C7 i wetsanded..... It took about a weekend to do it just working during the day.

There are many detailers out there that are , in my opinion unscrupulous, when I comes to coatings, because they know you don’t know what’s going on, so they charge $1800 and do $900 worth of work. I have had detailers tell me directly, that they love guys with new expensive cars, because we will pay anything to protect it.

Detailers in New York and Los Angeles maybe getting $100 an hour for labor, but the rest of the country it’s more like 60 to 75. Do the math ,asked him how many exact hours it’s gonna take for each particular stage, and then post it here. Remember this is a new car, it shouldn’t have to have major paint correction having to be done. And keep in mind that coatings just wipe on and it’s done. It’s not rocket science.

I also might add that it’s not absolutely necessary you do it. A good polymer sealant or even a nano ceramic sealant like reload will get you great protection for 6 to 7 months. And that’s just a wipe on type deal .....my car is not coated. I’m a carpro essence/reload guy.