How I protect my Jeep Compass's black paint from Delhi's dust

6 hours of detailing, plus 3 hours of interior clean to get the SUV's shine back.

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The Compass is 2 years and 3 months old now and Delhi NCR is probably the worst place to maintain a black car. The dust here is insane, and the car washing guys don't care a jack no matter how much you pay them. Also, my car has quite a few 'intentional' scratches now (not sure why people do that). Both my parking (office and residence) are well-protected and covered, yet I see a random scratch once in a while. Swirl marks were in abundance and I tried to live in denial for a few months.

But then it hit me - I spent so much on this lovely car and I am NOT taking care of it. The car washing guy used dirty water all the time. I had given him a new microfiber but they have their quota of washing around 25-30 cars in the morning so they do not care much. Cannot blame them though. So I fired him yesterday and decided to get the car washed only once a week at a professional place (I know, I know, I should have done this long back).

Some pictures of what the car was like till yesterday morning.

I checked with Detailing Bull in Gurgaon (Hong Kong Bazaar) and asked them about their detailing packages. They got their high gloss package which costs around INR 7,500 and covers everything that is on the outside of the car. I had my earlier detailing job at Tee Car Care in South Delhi - the detailing work was fine but was significantly more expensive than this. Also, the overall customer experience was a disaster there as they completely screwed up the PPF installation.

These guys were nice and polite and asked for around 6 hours to finish the job plus 3 hours for interior dry cleaning. I had to go to Ghaziabad in the evening so they promised to deploy maximum staff to work on my car (which they did) and started the work.

You can see 8 people working on the car here.

The final result:

Overall, happy with the service. They tried to get rid of all the scratches as much as possible. The swirl marks are gone completely. Let's see how many days the shine lasts. Fingers crossed.

P.S.: They did forget to put back a plastic part (which I found in the rear seat) - I will have to figure out what it is and where it goes in today.

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