A Porsche with Matrix Black ceramic coating returns 26 months after application. Gary walks the near side: no hedge scratches despite country driving. A few fine wash marks, otherwise immaculate. Back for a wash and top-up recoat.
This Porsche had Matrix Black 8-year ceramic coating applied 26 months ago. It is back in for a wash and a top-up recoat -- and Gary uses the visit to give an honest account of what a black car looks like after just over two years.
Black cars are unforgiving. You can see everything on them: wash marks, fine scratches, the slightest swirl. Keeping a large black car looking genuinely good for two years is a test of what any coating can actually do. Gary walked the near side carefully. On a car this size, driven regularly on country roads and country lanes, you would normally see scratches running the length of the door and the rear quarter -- every hedge and close-pass leaves a mark on black paint. He was not seeing any. A couple of fine marks had appeared from washing at some point, and somebody had used a slightly abrasive sponge or cloth somewhere along the way. But the near side was clean.
Gary knows this car well -- it belongs to his brother, who also happens to be a customer. He confirmed he has driven it very fast at certain points, which the car is built for. The coating does not stop that kind of use from eventually leaving marks. What it does is dramatically slow the accumulation of the kind of ambient paint degradation that turns a glossy black car grey and scratched within a couple of years of normal ownership.
After the wash and top-up recoat, it looked absolutely as it should. Two years in, one top-up, still stunning.
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