Hi Friends
If any give me feedback if it is worth spending $2.5k on Paint protection for my new Lexus 570 worth it ?
Thanks in advance for your feedback
Paint Protection worth it ? ($2500)
LKappy on 01/08/2016 - 18:29
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Yup, waste of money. How long are you going to keep it, will it spend long periods outside in industrial areas?
Waste. Better off with regular waxing
$2500 for 'paint protection' should include the total detailing work. Which includes the buffing and polishing out of the orange peel follwed by 3 times the application of paint protection followed by 'baking it on' in layers. The whole thing requires several days.
The end result is nothing short of perfection.
say what?
Google and read up on paint correction services. IMO no car (even top prestige cars) ever come out of the factory perfect. For $2500, you are going to get some serious top class work done on a car.
but not from a dealer. They'll charge you $2500 and send the car out the back with the apprentice, a buffing machine and a bottle of some shiny stuff. Total value more like $400.
Spending that $2500 at a professional service outside the dealer and you might get that much value.
NO
Is the drive away price on this really $151,802 ? If so an extra $2,500 is spare change so you might as well.
Simple Ans… NOPE…
Not sure if troll, because OP bought a new $150K car.
Lets rephrase the question. If I had a Mazda 3 that costed me $25K new, do I want to spend $2.5K on paint protection? Thats 10% of the car value. Now if I just bought a Lexus 570 thats $150K, do I want to spend 1.6% ($2.5K) on paint protection? Upto you - I would be more worried about other costs.
It's a product dealers run to get more profit
It's like buying shampoo from a hairdresser or getting your roof tiles resprayed, it's a rip offI'm in the market for the same.
Was just offered leather and paint protection by Mercedes for $2,700 including extra nonsense, I'm pretty sure they can do it for like 2k, but even then, I'm inxlining not to accept it.You can get a similar deal aftermarket for 1k-1.5k, but the advantage qith having it qith the dealer, epsecially prestige car dealers, is that you can go back to them if something goes wrong and (hopefully) they have your back.
I had paint protection on my Chrysler through the dealer before and when I needed paint work the warranty girl of the prote tion company (they all use subcontractors) gave me a hard, a simple phone call to Chrysler fixed it.
My 2Cents, find out what brand of paint protection material they use, somehow try to find out how much aftermarket shops can do the same brand for, if the difference is anything less than $300, go with the dealer.
OK, as someone with 10+ years of motor industry experience.
PAINT PROTECTION IS A SCHAM
Cost price to teh dealer is a few hundred for paint and a few hundred for interior. Most dealers make more from paint protection than they do on the car. Even at 4-500 id say no. Hot tip - regardless of how much you spent on your hyundai or lexus… the contractor who does the paint protection is the same bloke
Do you want to rarely wash you car and treat it like shit? Go visit the blokes at carcarproducts.com.au or any dealer that does opticoat/etc.. that bakes with IR lights. Spend 2500 there and you won't even recognise your car. Especially if its a darker colour.
For $2500, you could pay someone to come around and wash and polish it once a month for a year.
As someone who has been in the automotive industry for a long time, I love selling customers paint protection. It's a bullshit tin of wax that the detailers put on with a rag and a buff in about 10 mins. Cost us next to nothing and we charge you like a wounded bull.
I live in the middle of coal mining and industrial type area. I park my car outside most days and under a car port when the garage is full of dead motorbikes and I don't have paint protection. Know why? Cause I know it's bullshit.
Like everyone else in the know here has said already, google it and take it somewhere yourself to get it done. Don't let the dealer stiff you by getting an apprentice to wipe this shit on with a rag and call it done…
Are you saying ALL paint (and interior) protection is a scam? or just the overprived dealers' ones? Should OP have it done aftermarket for lets say $1k, or even do a $30 DIY job, or is it all useless?
I guess if OP is spending 150k on a brand new car, they want to protect it in the best possible way, but do not want to get ripped off.
I'm saying that the dealer supplied one is so heavily marked up that it is boardering on being a scam.
I'm also sayin that with regular maintenance and proper cleaning, there is no point to paint protection. I am assuming that a person who can afford a $150k+ car would have a garage at home, garage at work and not really park their car on the street for extended periods in poor weather conditions for years on end.
There are some good products out there offered as paint protection. These are the bake on UV sealed types. The wipe on and buff types the dealers offer will come off after the first few washes.
So, as my statement above says, do NOT buy the dealer marked up anything. Use your google-foo and get some alternative options. You will get a better option at a cheaper price.
And trust me, the Lexus dealer is putting $2500 price on it based on the car being $150k. It will be the same shit they put on their $25k Camry customers cars for $600.
I wasn't sure what a lexus 570 looked like, so Google.
Paint protection isn't going to fix ugly.
I did some research. Opti-coat seems to be well-regarded. Local authorised detailer quoted $900 for a large SUV, $1300 including interior.
I'm tossing between having it or not at all, but forget the dealer.
Exterior definitely, interior meh. Just be careful and don't spill drinks or drop food.
Hard to do with kids bro!
True that.
$2500! Isn't that like half the cost of respraying the car?
Automotive paints are getting better year on year. You'll be surprised how tough the outer clear coat is. Am not sure but there might be ways now to spray clear coat directly on.
Statistically most drivers will be involved in a car accident every 3 years. If a smash repairer is instructed to only repair the damaged panels then you kind of lose that meticulously equal paint protection.
I'm doing well then. Driving for 20 years and only had 2, everyone else must be having heaps of crashes.
If a smash repairer is instructed to only repair the damaged panels then you kind of lose that meticulously equal paint protection.
If the paint protection is listed on your insurance they will pay to have it reapplied.
Which state are you in?
If you're in VIC, around Melbourne, check out www.dansgaragedetailing.com
Great service, works in very expensive cars, has a great setup and is very VERY particular about his work.
He can point you in another direction if you're interstate. As mentioned above, something like Opticoat or the likes is worth less than half of what dealers charge, and you'll get a better job done. No paint protection however is permanent, just temporary, so really needs re-doing every 3-4 years in average.
what happened if you get huge discount for the protection? let's say half price, so it's $1250 from $2500, is it still not worth it?
Not if it is from the dealer, their paint protection is rubbish and a major rip off.
Speak with a detailer in your state, you can get a ceramic paint protection, like ceramic pro or opticoat for less than half of that price and you will have a flawless finish.