“Extremely happy with the results! I got a ceramic coating package and my car looks incredible the paint looks so fresh and they even got out some scratches! 10/10 recommend!!”
Blue Mountains NSW · Magnum accredited installer
Ceramic coating
Blue Mountains.
Long-term paint protection against sap, altitude UV and winter road grit — installed in a controlled workshop twenty minutes from Mount Victoria.
Why coat a mountains car
Up here, a coating earns its keep.
A ceramic coating is worth more on a Blue Mountains car than on most, precisely because of what the mountains throw at paint.
Sap and bird droppings are acidic, and the clock starts the moment they land. On coated paint they sit on a hard, chemically resistant layer instead of eating into clear coat, and they come off with a rinse rather than a polish. Altitude UV — which flattens red and black faster up here than closer to the coast — hits the coating first. And winter grit off the Great Western Highway releases far more easily from a slick surface than a bare one.
The honest version: it does not make paint scratch-proof, and it does not mean you stop washing the car. What it does is turn a hard environment into a manageable one.
Accredited installerMagnum Ceramic Coating
Standout is an accredited Magnum installer, which is the only way to get their Luminous X borophene coating installed.
Where it happens
Workshop, or your garage.
Coatings have to be applied and cured away from wind, dust, direct sun and moisture. Up here damp is a bigger problem than heat, and it rules out most driveways.
Lithgow workshop · recommended
- Around 20 minutes from Mount Victoria, 35 from Katoomba, an hour from Springwood
- Dedicated inspection lighting, so the correction underneath is done properly
- Enclosed and stable for the full cure window
Your garage · if it suits
- Fully enclosed and lockable, with power and lighting
- Dry — a damp mountains shed is not suitable
- Vehicle able to stay put overnight while the coating cures
The install
Six stages. The coating is the fifth.
Step 01
Inspect
Vehicle and paint assessment under inspection lighting, including paint depth readings so we know exactly what we are working with.
Step 02
Decontaminate
Deep wash, iron fallout removal, tar removal and mechanical decontamination to strip the panel back to bare paint.
Step 03
Correct
Machine polishing to remove swirls and defects. Whatever is left in the paint at this point is locked under the coating.
Step 04
Prepare
Panel wipe-down to remove polishing oils so the coating can bond directly to the clear coat.
Step 05
Protect
Coating installed panel by panel in controlled conditions, levelled and inspected as it flashes.
Step 06
Cure
Controlled cure in the workshop, then handover with maintenance guidance and a wash schedule.
Reviews
Coating customers, in their words.
“I got the new 7 year ceramic coating from the guys at Standout Auto detailing and the ute looks better then it did in the showroom. The water runs straight off and it so easy to wash now.”
“Absolutely Amazing! I drove my brand new LC300 series from the dealer straight to Brayden for the ceramic coating. He had it done and it was ready for pick up the following day. Incredible results.”
FAQ
Ceramic coating questions.
Yes. We run our mobile service the full length of the mountains, from Mount Victoria and Blackheath through Katoomba, Leura and Wentworth Falls down through Springwood to Blaxland. Because we are based in Lithgow we come at the mountains from the western end, which makes us closer to the upper mountains than almost any Sydney-based detailer. Correction and ceramic coating work is usually booked into the Lithgow workshop, which is about twenty minutes from Mount Victoria.
A ceramic coating is a liquid polymer that chemically bonds to your clear coat and cures into a hard, transparent protective layer. Unlike a wax or a sealant that sits on the surface for a few weeks or months, a coating becomes a semi-permanent layer that resists chemicals, UV and contamination, and makes the paint dramatically easier to keep clean.
It depends on the product and how the car is looked after. Standout is an accredited Magnum installer, offering their graphene coating at up to seven years and their Luminous X borophene coating at ten. Those are the manufacturer's ratings, and they assume sensible maintenance — correct wash technique and periodic inspections. A coated car that's run through a spinning-brush car wash every fortnight will not see the full term.
No. This is the single biggest myth in the industry. A coating adds meaningful chemical and environmental resistance, and it helps against very fine marring, but it will not stop a shopping trolley, a key, or a dirty wash mitt dragged across the paint. What it does is make the surface much easier to clean, which in turn means far fewer wash-induced scratches over the life of the car.
Wash every two to four weeks using a pH-neutral shampoo and a two-bucket or touchless method, avoid automatic brush washes, and dry with a clean microfibre or filtered blower. Remove bird droppings and sap promptly rather than letting them sit. We provide a written maintenance guide at handover, and maintenance washes can be booked with us if you'd rather we handled it.
Yes. Coatings need to be applied and cured out of wind, dust, direct sun and moisture, so mobile coating work requires an enclosed garage or a similar clean, lockable space with power and lighting. If that isn't available, the vehicle can be booked into the Lithgow workshop instead — that's usually the better outcome anyway.
Ready when you are
Ready to bring your car back to life?
Professional detailing, correction and protection from Standout Auto Detailing — workshop and mobile in Lithgow, mobile throughout the Blue Mountains and Bathurst.