I curious to hear what others have done preparing for and upon bringing a new G into the house.

When you took delivery of your new G, what level of detaling and prep did your dealer perform? What did you do in that first week or so before you started daily driving?

What was done as part of normal delivery prep? (remove packing materials, check / add fluids, wash and vacum....).

Did you have the dealer install any add ons (sealants, clear bra, tint, lojack, .... ) prior to delivery?

Did you ask that no prep be performed and do all the initial cleaning and detialing yourself. (see link)
http://www.detailuniversity.com/foru...-car-prep.html

Did you drive from the dealer to your detailer / tire dealer / tint shop / clear bra installer?

Initially I'm going for 35% tint and 95% coverage clear bra. I found a tint shop right around the corner from the dealer. I was considering having the dealer do his normal prep, (no add ons) then drive it two blocks for tint / clear bra. He said he needs the car for 24 hours to install both. I'm sure detailing work is required prior to that install, so I was curious what others had done.

thanks

Robosdr

 

When I purchased my last 2 G35s, the 3M Clear-bra installer came to the Dealer and did my 3M treatment. The carpets were scotchguarded at the Dealers. Then the car was taken down the steet and the tint was installed. Then I picked the car up.

 

mine came with a little chocolate mint on the driver and passenger seat

 

Mine had the plastics etc. removed, and had been cleaned - looked good, but no special prep beyond that.

 

At Riverside, we use an independant detailing company called Dynamic Detailing that does everything for us as far as detailing is concerned. We also have contractors for invisable bras, or any treatments applied to the car.

 

Window tint, full clear 3M Paint Protection (clear bra) OEM spoiler, and a good detail and wax.

 

Window tint (no charge!) usual prep and cleaning.

 

they added tint, wheels locks, washed and waxed before delivery at no charge.
It started to rain right after they were pulling my car around (from being waxed) when i was about to leave the lot, so it didn't stay clean long...

 

There is a specific list that the technicians do to prep a car for sale on the lot... its called a PDI inspection... (Pre Delivery Inspection)

Its mandatory that all dealers do this... Its a full inspection on the car, put the finishing touches on it (add center caps, unwrap floor mats, put in nav disc, etc etc...)

We also put wheel locks on every car on our lot...

 

As far as prep goes, the clear bra was installed at the dealership before I picked up the car. Aside from that the dealer did nothing but remove the random plastic coverings and tags; I had told the salesman not to do any washing or waxing.

When I got the car home, I went nuts on the carpet and floor mats with a few cans of Scotchguard.

Then I did two coats of Klasse SG 24 hours apart, followed by a top coat of Natty's Blue 3 days later.

It was only two weeks later I had a chance to go back for the dealer-applied undercoating (j/k).