Permashine ?anyone used it

roughan

any tried Permashine
www.permashine.ie

is it any good
they say u never need to wax ur car for 3 yrs ?

byrner1

Yea not bad have used it before. How much is it costing you ??

TomMc

It costs the dealer or agent about 30 quid or so for the materials (when bought in bulk), employ a lackey or two to slap it on and customer pays 300 - 400. It is based on old technology, PTFE (aka Teflon) usually suspended in an acrylic base. It only forms a physical and not a chemical bond with paintwork, therefore, it is not stable. The sealant coating effectively moves about on the surface (at micron level) with the changes in temperature (very cold winter to hot summer, not that we have one at the moment). It might cover up swirls and add wetness to the finish initially (product contains wetting agents), the PTFE adds slipperiness & slickness, but these will lose their edge after six to nine months and so what is left at that stage is a sterile (dead) gloss. Bottom line, most of it will have worn off after a year, never mind three. The salesmen always overhype the benefits of these PTFE sealants to unsuspecting customers, as a profit generator when selling a newish car. They sound good to lazy owners or those not into proper car care. In fact these salespeople usually have no eye for detail themselves, never mind any chemical expertise, to be making all sorts of exaggerated claims. Their dubious marketing is down to a lack of experience or ignorance if you like. But in Ireland it seems, the bigger the lie the more people believe it.