I know where your mindset is. I was you, back during the late 70's. So answer me this. If you did a reasonable job eating right and you exercised regularly (nothing crazy, maybe just 2-times a week), it would be easy for you to lose a few pounds if you wanted to, right? The reason why is because you stayed on top of your ability to lose those few pounds by the lifestyle that you are living, right? So, if someone told you that no matter what you ate, how much you ate and how little you exercised, they had a pill you could buy for $2000 that would keep you in shape, REGARDLESS of your lack of effort. In your mind, that would sound... unbelievable, right? I mean, too good to be true, right?
That's your $TUPID ALARM going off. Listen to it. It is trying to save your wallet.
Now think about it. How can a product manufacturer claim that their product can last a certain amount of time
when they don't have ONE CLUE as to what you are going to subject you car to???
THEY CAN'T.
Like a given product is going to last the same exact amount of time on two different cars that are subjected to two, completely different paint maintenance and weather exposures. You're starting to catch on right about now, huh!
A car that lives outdoors, driven daily with no wax on it in the brutal 4-seasons of New Your City compared to a car that is garage kept in Arizona are not only going to need two different maintenance attitudes as far as the paint is concerned, the paint on both cars is going to wear and age at two, totally different intervals. Add to that, the amount of time that it takes to maintain each car is going to vary
depending on the regularity of that maintenance! It's the same with exercising. If you do it frequently enough, you don't have to spend 30-hours a week trying to get in shape because you took 8-years off while living inside a Pizza Hut.
So the amount of time that you spend keeping your car looking excellent can be drastically influenced by getting it in shape ONCE, and then staying on top of that care by doing a little bit here and there. Don't wait for it to become a chore every time, make it a few little jobs. Just as you would with exercising. Also, realize that there are NO miracle products out there on the market. No matter what product you buy, that product's performance is going to totally depend on the care and maintenance your cars regularly sees. For me, someone who tries to blow that smoke up my wazoo is someone that I would never deal with. And whatever you do, stay the hell away from STEALERSHIPS. Those places employ some of the worst hacks in detailing. I wouldn't let them detail my toilet.
Here's a VISUAL example of what I mean. I bought myself a Porsha Cayenne Turbo. This is what the carpet looked like when I bought it.
Now can you imagine what manner of hell I had to go through in order to get all that grease out of some oak colored carpet? It took me 2-days to remove that crap. Guess what it looks like now?
Do you think it takes me 2-days to clean it now? Not even 15-minutes do I spend vacuuming it out because I do that at least twice a week. I make sure that it will always be this clean by first, not treating it like crap and second, staying on top of it with a little time here and there.
That is the secret to all manner of vehicle maintenance. If you drive 10,000 miles between oil changes, plan on spending big money and big time overhauling your engine. A little care here and there will keep the sharks from eating you up.
That's why I don't have any coating on my paint. I know how to care for it. Not saying that you shouldn't have your paint coated, just that it is not necessary in order to make your paint BLING.