Brand new Mercedes S63 AMG V8 cabriolet. Jeans colour transfer already on the driver's seat leather. Both front seats nano-coated. Wheels and calipers coated with Innox to resist brake dust. Hydrophobic roof coating.
A brand-new Mercedes S63 AMG -- V8, cabriolet, white. It arrived looking immaculate everywhere except the driver's front seat: there was already colour transfer visible on the seat base from a pair of jeans. Dye migration from dark clothing into light leather had already started, and the car was barely out of the showroom.
The seat was cleaned and both front seats were nano-coated to prevent any further transfer. Leather dye migration is a known issue with light-coloured leather -- the plasticisers that keep leather soft make the surface slightly permeable, and dark dyes (from jeans particularly) can work their way in. The nano-coating creates a barrier on the surface that stops this happening.
The wheels and calipers were coated with Innox, a product specifically formulated to prevent brake dust bonding to alloys. Brake dust is electrostatically sticky and bakes on in heat -- coated alloys and calipers clean in a fraction of the time of uncoated ones. A full exterior and interior valet was also carried out, and the cabriolet roof received a hydrophobic coating.
White cars show bug splatter and contamination clearly, and at speed it bakes onto the front end. The ceramic coating on the paintwork does not prevent the impact, but the hydrophobic surface means contamination cannot bond as aggressively -- it comes off in a wash rather than requiring abrasive cleaning.
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