Graphene Coating Review

This was our first proper graphene coating review -- a Range Rover that came back to us about a year after we applied the coating. We had already filmed the car when the job was done; this is what it looks like twelve months later.

The owner lives in the country. Black Range Rover, country lanes -- anyone who drives one of those will know exactly what the near side normally looks like after a year. Hedge scratches the whole length of the car. Gary looked down that side carefully after James had washed it: nothing. No hedge lines, no swirl marks from the usual brush encounters. One stone chip on the nose cone, one tiny blemish at the tip of a finger -- that is it on a car that has been taking country lanes for a year.

The visit was because the gardener had scratched the door with a lawnmower. We are not claiming graphene stops that kind of impact -- it does not. What Gary noticed when he looked at the scratch was that the damage was shallower than you would expect. The coating had taken some of the hit. There was a main scratch and some finer lines above it where something had squeezed past -- probably more than one incident -- and one section had gone through a little deeper. Gary was honest: that deeper section was not going to come out perfect. The customer knew the alternative was a full door respray, which would have cost considerably more and still needed the coating reapplied afterwards. He chose to live with it.

James put the car on the DA machine -- dual-action, not circular, so no ring marks -- and worked across the whole panel rather than spot-polishing, so the blend was even. After buffing, the faint line was still there under the right light, but from any normal viewing angle the door looked right. We recoated it before the car went home; six hours off the road for the coating to cure, then back to normal.

The wash itself is worth describing. Gary's observation: the car was dirty, genuinely dirty, but it still looked shiny. The owner had mentioned his son's black car, same age, no coating -- always looks grey and scratched. This one always looks clean compared to it even when it has not been washed. That is the self-cleaning effect in practice; the coating stops grime bonding at the surface level, so rain clears most of it.

Gary is also honest about what a coating does not do. You still have to wash it properly -- get into every gap, every little corner, because on a glossy coated car the bits you miss are obvious. It is easier to wash, quicker to dry (less water sitting on it), but it is not maintenance-free. The wheels had stayed clean; the ceramic on the alloys was keeping brake dust from baking on. That alone saves a lot of effort on a car this size.

After a year of this, Gary's verdict: graphene is the best product we have worked with in a long time. We have tried a lot of coatings, changed products as better ones came along. This one is on a different level. The paint still looks new. The car should sell, when it eventually does, needing little more than a wash.