Ceramic Coating Melbourne
Car Ceramic Coating in Melbourne
Liquid R applies ceramic coatings at 12/23A Cook Road, Mitcham, in Melbourne’s east, indoors in our own workshop since 2015. A full car coating starts at $980 with Gtechniq Crystal Serum Light, including single stage machine polishing, and Envoke ProCoat+ 7 Year Graphene Coating goes on in Packs 1 to 4 of our new car packages from $1390. Customers rate us 5 out of 5 across 89 verified reviews on this site.
A ceramic coating, also sold as a ceramic paint treatment or ceramic protective coating, is a liquid polymer that bonds with your clear coat and cures into a glass-hard layer. It seals the microscopic pores in the paint, so water sheets off, road grime struggles to stick, and the gloss reads deeper than factory. What it is not is chip protection; that job belongs to film, and we will tell you when your car needs that instead. Soft painted EVs are the usual example.
The coating is only half the result. The other half is where it goes on: our Mitcham facility runs over 1,000 square metres with ten dedicated application bays, and we have been coating cars there since 2015 as Gtechniq trained applicators.
We book around new car deliveries, so a fresh car can come straight to us before its first proper drive. Coating-led new car packages start at $1090.
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P: 1800 985 880
E: info@liquidr.com.au
A: 12/23A Cook Road Mitcham VIC 3132
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Monday to Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
Saturday 8:30am-12:30pm
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PPF on the panels that get hit, ceramic coating over the rest, window tint if you want it, bundled at a sharper price for a brand new car. See the packages.
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Paint Protection Film: self-healing film for the panels stone chips hit first.
Colour Transformation: a full colour change in Spectra Colour PPF, no vinyl, no respray.
Window Tinting: 3M and Defcon Films Australia films fitted to Victorian legal limits.
Detailing: paint correction, interior deep cleans and PPF refresh.
Full Car Ceramic Coating
Every painted panel decontaminated, machine polished where the paint needs it, then sealed with Gtechniq ceramic. Gloss deepens, dirt releases with a rinse, and the finish is warrantied for years, not months.
Envoke ProCoat+ 7 Year Graphene Coating
Envoke ProCoat+ 7 Year Graphene Coating goes on over the same preparation. It runs slicker than a standard ceramic, sheds water faster and resists the mineral water spots Melbourne bore water leaves behind.
PPF Ceramic Coating
A ceramic layer applied over paint protection film, including films from Defcon Films Australia. The film handles impacts, the coating handles dirt and water, and the car stays easy to wash. See our PPF page for film options.
Alloy Wheel Ceramic Coating
Brake dust bakes onto bare alloys and pits the finish. A wheel specific ceramic handles the heat and lets the dust rinse off before it bonds. Performance cars like the BMW M2, M3 and M4 dust hardest and gain the most. Faces only, or off the car for barrels and calipers.
Interior Leather and Fabric Coating
Seats, carpets and trim sealed against coffee, sunscreen and jean dye. Spills bead on the surface long enough to wipe away instead of soaking in. Popular with white and light interiors, and with Mercedes owners protecting factory leather.
What a Ceramic Coating Does
Bonded at the molecular level, the coating fills the pores that make paint grabby. The surface turns hydrophobic: rain beads and rolls, dried bugs release with a rinse, and brake dust wipes instead of etching. Underneath it all, the clear coat is shielded from UV and chemical staining, which is what keeps colour from going flat over the years. It is often sold as ceramic paint protection, and it is the same product.
What a Coating Does Not Do
A coating will not stop a stone chip and it will not fill scratches that already exist. Any workshop that tells you otherwise is selling. Impact protection is paint protection film’s job, and existing defects need correction before coating, because a coating locks in whatever finish sits beneath it. On soft Tesla paint the film question comes up first.
Gtechniq Crystal Serum Light and Envoke ProCoat+
Gtechniq Crystal Serum Light is the coating in our Essential new car package and a sound choice for a daily driver. For longer protection we now apply Envoke ProCoat+ 7 Year Graphene Coating in Packs 1 to 4, in place of Gtechniq Crystal Serum Ultra. If you were looking for Crystal Serum Ultra, ProCoat+ is what we recommend instead, and we are happy to explain the difference.
Preparation Decides the Result
Before any coating touches the car it gets a full decontamination: foam pre-wash, two bucket contact wash, iron and tar removal, clay treatment, then machine polishing under inspection lights. Skip any of that and you seal dirt and swirls under glass. This preparation is most of the labour and most of the price, and it is why our results last.
Paint Correction Comes First
Correction here is staged, not brutal. A light cut shows us which defects are shallow, deeper marks get targeted individually, then the finish is refined back to gloss. We never blanket-cut whole panels for the sake of two scratches, because clear coat thickness is finite and modern cars ship with less of it than ever. More detail on the detailing page.
Why Indoors Matters
Mobile coating in a driveway means wind-blown dust settling into wet coating, and dust under glass is a correction bill later. Our application bays are indoors, lit for inspection and temperature controlled so the coating cures the way its maker intended. It is the least glamorous advantage we have and one of the most important.
How Long a Coating Lasts
A professionally applied coating protects for two to five years in normal Melbourne use, and well-maintained cars have stretched ours toward nine. Garaged weekenders like a Porsche 911 sit at the long end of that range. Compare that with a wax measured in weeks. Longevity tracks maintenance: the wash routine on this page is most of the difference between a three year coating and a seven year one.
Washing a Coated Car
The routine is easy and matters: pH neutral shampoo, a rinse before contact, no brush car washes, dry with a clean towel or blower. Done that way the coating keeps its beading and the paint stays swirl-free, because nothing gritty ever gets dragged across it. We hand every customer this routine at pickup. The full wash routine is on our aftercare page. The step by step version is in our guide to the best way to wash a ceramic coated car.
Coating Versus Wax
Wax is a sacrificial layer that sits on top of paint and surrenders in weeks to sun and shampoo. A ceramic coating chemically bonds and stays for years. Wax wins on upfront price and DIY comfort; the coating wins every month after that. Most of our coating customers are former serial waxers who did the arithmetic.
Ceramic Coating Cost in Melbourne
A full car ceramic coating on bare paint starts at $980. That figure already covers the part of the job that decides the result: a decontamination wash, iron and tar removal, clay and a single stage machine polish under inspection lights. Paint with deeper swirls or scratches needs more correction, which we price once we have seen the car. Coating over new paint protection film is $650 in the same booking, and wheels are $60 each. For a car straight from the dealer, our new car protection packages run from $1090 with Gtechniq Crystal Serum Light up to $4090 with front end film and tint included. The quote is fixed before you book, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
Looking for Ceramic Coating Near Me?
All our coating work happens at one workshop, 12/23A Cook Road in Mitcham. We are open Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm and Saturday 8:30am to 12:30pm. Customers drive in from all over Melbourne and pay the same price whichever suburb they come from, because the quote follows the car. Ten application bays give us more capacity than many Melbourne detailers, so a booking rarely means a long wait, and we can line the job up with a new car’s delivery day. Our local area guides cover the trip from your part of town. To check a date, call 1800 985 880 or text 0483 930 888.
What a Full Car Coating Covers
The coating is not limited to painted panels. Headlights and taillights are coated as well, along with exterior plastic and chrome trim, so the whole car behaves the same in the rain. Glass can be treated in the same visit. Inside, Gtechniq L1 Leather Guard goes on the seats, armrests, steering wheel and gear knob once the leather has been deep cleaned of dealer prep residue, and Gtechniq I1 Smart Fabric protects carpets and cloth upholstery. That interior protection is part of Pack 2 and up in our new car packages.
How the Ceramic Coating Is Applied
Once the paint is corrected, a blower clears polishing dust from the panel gaps and every panel is wiped down to strip polish oils, so the coating bonds straight to clean clear coat. The car gets one last look under the detailing lights before coating starts. The coating then goes on one small section at a time and is levelled off at the right moment. Left too long, it dries into a hazy, streaky patch that has to be machine polished off. After application it needs time to cure before water touches it. For a car facing harsher conditions, a second layer or a top coat adds stronger water repellence.
Automotive Ceramic Coating for Any Car
We coat everything from daily commuters to high end cars, and the process is the same for both. Imported sports cars and muscle cars, classics, SUVs, 4WDs and utes all come through, and so do boats, because gelcoat oxidises faster than paint. Regular makes include Tesla, BMW, Audi, Ford, Holden, Mercedes, Toyota and Hyundai. Older paint is assessed first and usually machine polished, from $850, before it is coated. The make and model guides go into what we see on each brand’s paint.
Ceramic Coating Against Melbourne Weather
Melbourne can serve up four seasons in a day, and a car parked outside takes all of it: summer UV, months of wet winter roads, dust from roadworks, bird droppings and sap under street trees. A coated surface gives that grime very little to grip. In winter a pressure hose and a pH neutral shampoo bring the car back to a clean shine, and droppings or sap rinse away before they etch into the clear coat. Paint kept in that condition also holds its value when the car is sold or traded in.
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Common Questions
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers before you book. Anything else, call 1800 985 880.
If you keep the car more than a couple of years, usually yes. The coating replaces the endless wax cycle, keeps the paint from dulling, and protects resale condition. The maths works best for daily drivers that live outside, which is the opposite of what most people assume.
No, and be wary of anyone who says it does. A coating is microns thick and protects against chemistry: UV, staining, water spots and wash marring. Stopping stones is a physical job for paint protection film, which is why the two are so often combined.
If the paint has swirls or scratches, yes, because the coating seals in whatever is underneath. A brand new car usually needs only a light polish after decontamination. We inspect under proper lights and quote correction only for what your paint actually needs.
Absolutely, and older paint often shows the biggest transformation. The process is the same: decontaminate, correct what correction can fix, then coat. The coating will not repair damage, but it will lock in the corrected finish and make it far easier to keep.
The coating needs time to fully cure, so we ask you to keep it dry for the first days and skip washing for a couple of weeks. After that, the pH neutral routine applies. We run through all of it at handover so there is no guesswork.
DIY kits are real chemistry with none of the preparation. Applied over uncorrected, contaminated paint they seal the problems in, streak in ways that need machine polishing to undo, and last a fraction as long. The product is a small part of the job; the prep and the controlled environment are the rest.
Ours starts at $980 for a full car on bare paint, and that includes the decontamination and a single stage machine polish. Heavier swirls or scratches need extra correction, quoted after we inspect the paint. Coating over new film is $650 and wheels are $60 each.
One properly applied layer gives most cars years of protection. A car that lives outside or faces harsher conditions can take a second layer or a top coat, which lifts water repellence and chemical resistance. We will suggest what suits how the car is used and where it is parked.
The best results come from a professional grade coating applied over properly prepared paint, indoors, by a trained applicator. Our packages use Gtechniq and Envoke graphene products.
Graphene is slicker and spots less on hot panels, which suits cars parked outside. Both protect the clear coat in a similar way.
Two to five years in normal Melbourne use with a proper wash routine. Claims of ten years on a daily driver should be treated with caution.
Not necessarily. Dealer products vary. Ask what product is applied, what preparation is included and who backs the warranty, then compare like for like.