Water beading on a ceramic-coated vehicle detailed by Patriot Auto Detailing in Mesa, Arizona
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Ceramic Coating Packages & Pricing.

Two packages. Both applied in your driveway. Multi-year protection engineered for Arizona UV, hard water and monsoon dust.

Patriot Auto Detailing applies professional ceramic coatings at homes and offices across Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Apache Junction and Phoenix, Arizona. The Patriot Protection Package costs $1,395 and coats paint and trim for three to five years. The Presidential Protection Package costs $1,695, coats paint for five to seven years, and adds one-year ceramic protection on the wheel facings and the windshield. Both include a triple decontamination wash and a One Step Paint Enhancement Service achieving up to 60% correction. Prices shown are sedan pricing. Call or text (480) 336-9295.

No. 01Why Coat In Arizona

What A Ceramic Coating Actually Does.

A ceramic coating is a liquid silica polymer that bonds to your clear coat and cures into a hard, hydrophobic layer. It is not a wax and it is not a sealant. Wax sits on the paint and lasts weeks. A sealant bonds loosely and lasts months. A coating becomes a semi-permanent sacrificial layer measured in years.

Three things make that worth more in Arizona than almost anywhere else:

  • UV load. Roughly 300 sunny days a year and one of the highest UV indexes in the country. Clear coat contains a finite budget of UV inhibitors, and once they are spent the resin itself starts breaking down — chalking, hazing, then peeling. A coating absorbs that radiation so the paint underneath does not.
  • Hard water. Whether it is municipal tap, well water or reclaimed irrigation, water here carries a heavy mineral load. Droplets dry on a 140°F panel in minutes and the minerals bond into the clear coat. On a coated surface most water beads and rolls off before it can dry, and whatever does dry bonds to hardened silica instead of soft paint.
  • Monsoon dust. Dusty rain is more abrasive than either dust or rain alone. A hydrophobic surface releases it with a rinse rather than requiring a scrub.

What a coating will not do. It will not remove damage that already exists. Coating over swirls, etching or oxidation seals them in permanently. That is why both packages include an enhancement service, and why we inspect the paint before quoting — if the vehicle needs more correction than the enhancement provides, we tell you and price it separately rather than coating over the problem.

It also does not make a vehicle scratch-proof or wash-free. Coated cars still need washing. They just wash far more easily, and they stop losing gloss at the rate an uncoated Arizona car does.

No. 02Pricing

Ceramic Coating Packages & Pricing.

Sedan pricing. SUV, truck and van adders are quoted in writing after the pre-service inspection.

Ceramic coating packages and prices — Mesa, AZ and the East Valley.
PackageProtectionWhat's IncludedPrice
Patriot Protection Package3–5 years on paint and trimTriple decontamination wash · One Step Paint Enhancement (up to 60% correction) · 3–5 year coating on paint and trim · exterior dressed · wheels and tires dressed$1,395
Presidential Protection Package5–7 years on paint, plus 1 year on wheel facings and windshieldTriple decontamination wash · One Step Paint Enhancement (up to 60% correction) · Patriot 5–7 Year Ceramic Protection Service · 1 Year Wheel Facings Ceramic Protection · 1 Year Windshield Ceramic Protection$1,695
Presidential Exterior DetailRoughly 8 monthsNot a coating — an 8-month ceramic shine sealant, clay bar decontamination, gloss enhancement, minor scratch removal, rain repellent glass, trim restoration, conditioned wheel wells$349
Before you book: All ceramic coating packages include our entry-level paint correction, called an enhancement service. The only way to know whether a vehicle needs more correction is to wash it and inspect the paint. We may recommend additional paint correction at that point — it is entirely your decision and is not required to maintain any guarantee. Every vehicle is subject to a pre-service inspection, and additional charges apply if the vehicle needs paint correction services.
Nine out of ten of our coating clients choose the Presidential Protection Package. The step up is not more correction — both packages get the same enhancement service. It buys two more years on the paint plus the wheel facings and windshield.
No. 03The Appointment

How A Coating Appointment Runs.

A full day on site plus a 24-hour cure. Here is the sequence.

Pre-Service Inspection

Every vehicle is inspected before work starts. We wash it, look at the paint under lights, and tell you honestly whether the enhancement service will be enough or whether the paint needs more correction.

Triple Decontamination Wash

Three stages: chemical wash, iron and fallout remover, then clay bar. Coating over bonded contamination locks it under the coating permanently.

One Step Paint Enhancement

A single-stage machine polish achieving up to 60% correction. Removes light swirls and haze and restores gloss before the coating goes on.

Coat, Level & Cure

Panel-by-panel application and levelling, then 24 hours dry. Presidential adds the wheel facings and windshield. We schedule around weather and sprinklers.

No. 06FAQ

Ceramic Coating Questions.

Different question? Call (480) 336-9295.

The Patriot Protection Package costs $1,395 and coats paint and trim for three to five years. The Presidential Protection Package costs $1,695, coats paint for five to seven years, and adds one-year ceramic protection to the wheel facings and windshield. Both prices are for sedans and both include a triple decontamination wash and a One Step Paint Enhancement Service. SUV, truck and van adders are quoted in writing after the pre-service inspection, and there is no travel fee anywhere in the East Valley.
Not the correction — both include the same One Step Paint Enhancement Service achieving up to 60% correction. The Patriot Protection Package coats paint and trim for three to five years and finishes with the exterior, wheels and tires dressed. The Presidential Protection Package coats paint for five to seven years and adds one-year ceramic protection on the wheel facings and the windshield. Coated glass is the piece most people underrate in Arizona, because hard water hits the windshield before it hits the paint.
An entry-level correction is. Both packages include a One Step Paint Enhancement Service that achieves up to 60% correction, which handles light swirls, haze and surface spotting. Deeper defects — etched water spots, real oxidation, heavy swirling — need more than the enhancement, and that is an additional charge quoted after we wash and inspect the vehicle. It is entirely your decision whether to take it, and declining does not affect any guarantee.
Three to five years for the Patriot Protection Package and five to seven for the Presidential, with the wheel facings and windshield coatings on the Presidential rated at one year. Those ranges assume normal maintenance washing. Arizona is harder on coatings than most climates because of UV load, so a garage-kept vehicle will sit at the top of the range and a vehicle parked in open sun at the bottom.
Yes. Patriot Auto Detailing is 100% mobile and the coating is applied in your driveway, carport or office parking space. The van carries its own water, power, lighting and shade canopy, so nothing is needed from the property. What we do need is 24 hours of dry time afterward for the coating to cure, so we ask about garage availability and irrigation schedules before booking.
It depends on how long you are keeping the vehicle. If you plan to own it another year or two, the $349 Presidential Exterior Detail with its 8-month ceramic shine sealant is the sensible spend. If you are keeping it five years or more, a coating costs less per year and prevents the UV oxidation that permanently ages Arizona paint. We will tell you which one your situation actually calls for.
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Patriot Protection Package from $1,395. Presidential from $1,695. Call (480) 336-9295 or schedule online.

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