Paint Glaze?

Yup, that's a clear-coat style finish alright. They really do make the car look glossy. That car looks like a Candy Apple!

Now you've got me thinking about it. There are a lot of aftermarket shops that can do this too. Just like paint, they can be applied well, or poorly, and be a good quality product or a bad one. Yours looks very nice.

My only hesitation (and maybe someone can enlighten me) is I remember ALL paint coatings being softer than the paint. With dull paint you can use a clay bar, rubbing compound, polishing compound, waxes, etc... to restore the lustre.

These extra coatings are quite durable, but do not react as well to restorative measures, years down the line.

I think I'd prefer to stick with a long lasting quality wax product that can also protect against sun, acid rain, bird crap, oxidation, but you've got to be the type of person to apply it every 6 months.

Or maybe I'm just being silly, and the new coatings last much longer, or are even tougher than the paint. Dunno. I'd have to know what whiz-bang chemical company developed the stuff.

Just been to see my car offloaded from the transporter - Beautiful!

Anyway, whilst I was finalising a few things (finance, etc. - boo, hiss) the subject of the paint glaze came up.

It was suggested to me that I have it, and was shown a cooper with and without - the one with had a noticable deeper shine. Looked quite cool!

So I had it! Only problem was, it cost a bit more than the £50 mentioned at the start of this thread... More like £199. This did include interior fabric and carpet protection as well though.

Apparently a specialist team come in and do it - a company called Protect and Care.

Anyway, can't wait - roll on Tuesday!!!