EURO: paint protection package?

aZZ: there are many paint protection product and company doing the job, different honda dealers deal with different companies, usually the locals. but Ming is a very well known company for paint protection, and interior protection. It has branches all over australia.
In my experience, I find paint protection with teflon definitely provide extra protection. My friend's dark green Gen 3 VW golf VR6 had it done, it hardly has any swirl mark, but mind you my friend wash his car regularly, he also uses Zymol wax. (maybe it is Zymol doing the trick?)

With regard to Leather protection, yours will be ivory leather which is more prone to stain, as many other members pointed out, they have stains from their jeans and black leather belt etc. so maybe the leather protection may prevent that from happening.

Rust protection (underbody) probably will be benificial to you since you are down at the coast. especially if you intend to keep your car for a long time.

Bat's poo is so detrimental, my colleague's Z350 coped one right on the middle of bonnet, and it screwed the dytona blue paint badly. if he has the paint protection like Catch's father's Camry, then his bonnet should still be spotless.

If you consider getting it done, find out the name of company and product your honda dealer use. Maybe H22a accord can give you more info to help you make decision.

I never really believed that stuffed work but after seening my father get sucked into it and got it done. I personally would reconsider it on my next car but outside of a dealership.

And like I said before, where he parks it gets dumped on with bat droppings and well he can't really park anywhere else and and the trees surrounding are nest of bats. I have lost count of the number of times i would have to clean the stuff off worrying about it but to this day after 3 years its still does the job. And my father never waxes or does anything. nor does he put the special detergents that are required when washing. That enough evidence that it works. Funny that when they offered me that when I brought my honda i just thought "WHAT for that price you can go jump". But after reading this and thinking about me fathers cars, it really does work in some ways.

Even my window tinting I sourced that company that does it for my local honda dealership and went direct to them and save me about couple of hundred.

In the end If you really want to save and get the full benefits, doing your homework on what you want will reap rewards just like choosing your Euro, nothing comes close to the spec for price and honda quality.

By the sounds of it, all this protection is a waste of money?

I was offered Paint and Interior Leather protection for $1100 with a couple more freebies like cleaner etc.

Should I save my $1100?

...it's a Graphite Euro-L.

I did paint protection and tinting for mine. $750 all in. I think I may have been riPPed!?

Hmmm...sounds pretty good compared to the prices they're giving me.

Paint = $895
Leather = $795

Total = $1690 but if purchased as a package = $1100 + freebies after haggling.

But after reading a few of the threads regarding these products, I might be better off saving my money for petrol! :D

I choose to Disagree...

I like Paint Protection but I'll never get it off the dealer, their prices are overpriced..

I sourced around for detailing shops and got myself MING Paint Protection for my old car and I can't tell you how much easier cleaning and maintaining the paint work of the car.. In three years that I owned the car when it rolled out of the dealership, I never once waxed or polished the car, water just seeps off seamlessly and cleaning off goo and poo poo were a breeeze....

You can get a good Paint Protection package for around 300 bucks nowadays with a 5 year guarantee....

Only drawback is that you can only wash the car with special shampoo that rejuvenates and protects the Paint Protection itself...

Yeah i reckon these days there are lots of other places you can do it. EAcc13, how long before you wipe out the goo away, will it tolerate? Newbie here.

Only reason i got mine from Dealership was cos they offered lifetime warranty on tint and crystal glaze[paint protection] . 20years from now, im gonna make a claim. hehe.

It's ridiculous how much dealers charge for the crappy so-called "paint protection".
Just buy some high quality car detailing products consisting of car wash, polish, sealant/carnauba wax and good quality microfibre towels. Clay bar the paint, give it a full polish, seal the paint and top it off with wax. After giving a full treatment, washing your car becomes so easy after that. That'll only cost you 3-400 bucks for more than a year's supply. In my mind, it's much more effective than those dubious paint protection packages.
Mind you, my car looks even newer than when it was first delivered.

Thanks for the insight... guess I'll tell them tomomorrow the decision about paint and leather protection. Forget about it :thumbdwn:

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Originally Posted by jamwyn

EAcc13, how long before you wipe out the goo away, will it tolerate? Newbie here.

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Well the thing is that the Paint Protection protects the body from the acidic stuffs in goo and tree gum.. Sometimes it's hard to get off when it has been baked under the sun for too long but the body is still being protected by the Paint Protection.

Tip to get harden goo, poo, boo whatever off the paintwork is to use tea tree oil or sit a sponge with car shampoo over it for a minute or two to let the shampoo soften the crap then gently wipe it off....


CHEERS

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Originally Posted by EuroAccord13

Tip to get harden goo, poo, boo whatever off the paintwork is to use tea tree oil or sit a sponge with car shampoo over it for a minute or two to let the shampoo soften the crap then gently wipe it off....


CHEERS

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I'd just use a good quality bug remover.

And stuff that doesn't soften with the tea tree oil, car shampoo or bug remover, use a claybar to remove instead.