Decontaminate, correct the dealer prep marks, and protect the paint before the first winter touches it.
A new car is the best possible starting point for protection, because the clear coat is at full thickness and has not been through years of automatic washes. Protect it now and you are preserving a factory finish rather than trying to recover one later.
One thing surprises people: new does not mean flawless. Vehicles are transported uncovered, sit on lots for weeks collecting rail dust and industrial fallout, and are then prepped by a dealer's wash crew working fast with whatever towels are on hand. It is common to find a brand new car already carrying wash marring and bonded contamination before the first owner drives it.
Protecting a new car is cheaper than protecting a three-year-old one, because the correction step is short. On a new vehicle we are removing light dealer marring, which is an hour or two. On the same car after three winters of brush washes, we are removing established swirls, water spot etching and salt damage, which is a full correction.
The interior side follows the same logic. Fabric protection applied to seats that have never been sat in works far better than protection applied over three years of absorbed body oil, and a coffee spill on treated fabric beads long enough to blot.
Ideally within the first few weeks. Book it before the first winter if you take delivery in fall — getting salt onto unprotected new paint is the exact thing this package prevents.
One request: ask the dealer not to apply their own paint protection product. Those dealer-applied sealants are high-margin, short-lived, and occasionally have to be stripped before a real coating can bond, which adds cost. Decline it and put the money here instead.
We are based on Erick Ave in Hewlett, just off Broadway and a few minutes from the Hewlett LIRR station. Rug drop-offs and pickups are by appointment — call before you come by.
Book today and get same-day service in Hewlett and the Five Towns.