Premier service
Ceramic coating
A hard, hydrophobic layer bonded to your clear coat. Multi-year protection against UV, salt, bird droppings, and industrial fallout — and a gloss level a wax cannot reach.
Veteran-owned · Garden City, GA
Ceramic coating that outlasts the coast Salt air, summer UV, and pollen strip a Savannah car's paint faster than almost anywhere in Georgia. A professionally applied coating is the layer that takes the damage instead of your clear coat.
- Free quote in one business day or less or less
- Paint corrected before coating
- High-end and collection work
- 9H cured coating hardness
- Up to 5 years of protection
- Open 7 days, by appointment
- Exotic & collection specialists
- Paint corrected before every coating
- Serving Savannah · Pooler · Richmond Hill
Get your free quote
Three quick steps. Tell us what we're working on and we'll get back to you in one business day or less.
- What & whichVehicle and service
- DetailsYear, make, condition
- Your contactWhere to send it
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Thanks — we've got your details. You'll hear back in one business day or less. If you need it sooner, call (912) 844-0633.
Everything we do
Coating is the headline, but most cars leave here having had two or three of these done at once — it's cheaper and faster than booking them separately.
Paint correction
Machine polishing that removes swirls, holograms, and oxidation rather than filling them. This is the step that decides how good the coating looks for the next three years.
Automotive window tint
Ceramic film that cuts heat and blocks UV without the purple fade or signal interference of cheap dyed film. We meter every install so it leaves the shop Georgia-legal.
Vehicle vinyl wrap
Full colour changes, partial wraps, chrome delete, and roof or hood accents. A wrap also shields the original paint underneath, so it comes off clean when you're ready to sell.
Windshield protection film
A tough optical film over the windshield that absorbs stone strikes before they chip the glass. Available on its own, or paired with a hydrophobic coating so rain sheets off at speed.
Full detail
Interior and exterior, top to bottom. Steam extraction on carpets and upholstery, leather cleaned and conditioned, engine bay, door jambs, and a proper decontamination wash outside.
Not a vehicle? We do buildings too
The same film technology on homes, storefronts and offices — heat, glare, fading and privacy. Quoted per window, measured on site.
Residential window tint
Cuts the afternoon heat load on west-facing glass, stops furniture and flooring fading, and adds daytime privacy without making rooms dark.
Commercial window tint
Storefronts, offices, and warehouses. Lower cooling costs, less glare on screens, and security film options for ground-floor glass.
How ceramic coating works
It's a liquid that hardens into a clear layer bonded on top of your paint. Anything that would have landed on the paint lands on the coating instead — and the coating is far tougher.
It bonds on. It doesn't sit on.
Wax rests on the surface and washes off in a couple of months. A coating chemically grips the clear coat and becomes part of it, so only abrasion takes it off.
Dirt struggles to stick to it
Water pulls into beads and rolls straight off, taking road film with it. Washing gets much quicker — though it doesn't stop being necessary.
What it protects against
Coastal Georgia throws all of this at your paint. The coating takes it instead.
- UV and sun fade Stops clear coat oxidising and colour going flat
- Bird droppings Acidic enough to etch bare clear coat within hours
- Tree sap Bonds hard to paint and pulls clear coat off when scraped
- Salt air and spray The coastal one — accelerates corrosion and dulling
- Bug splatter Acidic, and worst after a hot highway run
- Brake dust Hot iron particles that embed themselves in the finish
- Hard water spots Mineral rings left by sprinklers and quick dry-offs
- Light wash marring Fine swirls from towels, brushes and grit
A coating resists these — it is not armour. It won't stop stone chips, kerbed wheels, or a shopping trolley.
How long it lasts
| Product | Typical durability |
|---|---|
| Wax | 1 to 3 months |
| Sealant | 4 to 6 months |
| Entry-level ceramic coating | 1 to 2 years |
| Professional-grade ceramic coating | 3 to 5 years |
Depends on how the car is stored and washed. We'll tell you which end yours is likely to land on.
Choose your shade
VLT is the share of visible light the glass lets through — lower number, darker window. Drag the slider to see each shade, and where it's legal in Georgia.
Vehicle Window Tinting
Georgia's limits, in short. Front side windows on every vehicle must let through more than 32% of light. On a sedan, the back side and rear windows have to meet that same 32% figure. On an SUV, van, or truck, the windows behind the driver can be any darkness you like. Windshields take a non-reflective strip along the top 6 inches only, and film reflectivity is capped at 20%. Medical exemptions exist for drivers who need darker glass.
Set out in O.C.G.A. § 40-8-73.1. Meters read the film and the factory glass together, so a "35%" film can measure lower once it's on — we check every car with a meter before it leaves.
How a coating job runs
Roughly eighty per cent of the work happens before a drop of coating touches the car. Here's the order it goes in.
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Inspection and paint reading 30 min
We measure clear coat thickness and put the car under LED inspection lights to map the defects. That reading determines how aggressively we can safely correct — and it's why we quote after seeing the car, not from a photo.
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Decontamination 2–3 hrs
Foam pre-wash, then a two-bucket contact wash, iron remover to dissolve embedded brake dust, and clay to pull out anything still bonded to the surface. Coating over contamination locks it in permanently.
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Paint correction 4–20 hrs
Machine polishing, panel by panel, cutting then refining. This is the longest stage and the one that separates a coated car that looks incredible from one that just looks shiny and wet.
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Panel wipe and coating 2–4 hrs
Every panel is stripped of polishing oils so the coating can bond to bare clear coat, then the coating goes on section by section and is levelled by hand at the right flash time.
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Cure, inspect, hand back 12–24 hrs
The car stays inside overnight to cure away from rain and dew. We do a final light inspection and walk you around it at pickup so you can see exactly what changed.
Multi-vehicle programme
For car collections, dealerships, and car clubs
When there's more than one car, it makes far more sense for us to come to you. We set up on site, work through the collection in sequence, and you never move a vehicle off your property.
- We come to your spacePrivate garages, dealership prep bays, and club storage facilities. We bring lighting, power, and everything else the job needs.
- Volume pricingPer-vehicle rates drop as the count goes up. Tell us how many cars and what condition they're in and we'll put a schedule and a number together.
- Scheduled rotationCollections don't all need doing at once. We can work through a rotation across weeks and keep maintenance washes on a calendar.
- Built for high-end paintSoft European clear coats, single-stage paint on older cars, and delicate finishes get read individually before anything touches them.
4+
vehicles is where per-car pricing starts to drop
Bring it to us, or we'll come to you
Our bay in Garden City By appointment only
A dedicated unit at 20 Bryce Industrial Dr — not a queue and not a car wash. Coatings cure badly outdoors, so correction and coating happen inside under proper inspection lighting, which is the only way to see what you're actually correcting.
Or we come to your space
For collections, dealerships, car clubs, and anyone with more than one vehicle, we bring lighting, power, and the full setup to your garage or prep bay. Tint and detailing travel easily; coating work still needs somewhere sheltered to cure overnight.
Either way the order of operations is the same — read the paint, decontaminate, correct, coat, cure. We'd rather turn a job down than rush a correction stage, because skipping one is what makes coatings fail early.
Where we work
- Savannah
- Garden City
- Pooler
- Richmond Hill
- Hinesville
- Rincon
- Bloomingdale
- Tybee Island
What customers say
Reviews left on Google by Lonestar Pro Detail customers.
Coating reported to your vehicle history record
$2,000,000Insured — your vehicle is covered while it's with us
The coating follows the car, not just the paint
Most detailing disappears the moment you sell. A registered ceramic coating doesn't — it's recorded against your VIN, so the next buyer can see the car was protected and by whom.
- A documented service recordThe installation date, the coating applied, and the shop that applied it are attached to the vehicle's history — the same place a buyer checks for accidents and service.
- Evidence, not just a claim"It's been ceramic coated" is worth very little on a used-car listing. A line on the vehicle history report is verifiable, which is what actually moves a buyer.
- Paint that still looks the partThe record matters at resale, but the protection matters every day between now and then. Coated paint holds gloss and resists etching from bird droppings, sap, and salt spray.
- Date
- Service performed
- 14 Mar
- Ceramic coating applied
Lonestar Pro Detail — Garden City, GA - 14 Mar
- Paint correction completed
Two-stage machine polish - 14 Mar
- Coating registered to VIN
Illustration of how a registered coating appears alongside other service history. Actual wording and formatting are set by the reporting service.
Questions we get asked
How long does a ceramic coating last?
Between one and five years depending on the package, how the car is stored, and how it's washed. Garage-kept cars washed properly with pH-neutral soap sit at the top of that range. Cars parked outside under trees and run through automatic brush washes sit at the bottom. We'll tell you honestly which end yours is likely to land on.
Does it mean I never have to wash the car again?
No — and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. A coating makes washing dramatically easier and faster because dirt struggles to bond to the surface, but the car still needs regular maintenance washes. That maintenance is exactly what determines whether you get two years or five out of it.
Will a coating fix scratches in my paint?
The coating itself doesn't remove anything — it's a clear layer that goes over the top. Defect removal happens in the paint correction stage beforehand, which is why correction is included in every package. Coating a swirled car just seals the swirls under a glossy layer.
Do you work on exotic and collector cars?
Yes, and they're read differently. Soft European clear coats and older single-stage paint need a lighter, slower approach than a modern Japanese finish. We take paint thickness readings before touching anything, and on a collection we'll go car by car rather than applying one process to everything.
What's the darkest tint I can legally have in Georgia?
Front side windows on any vehicle need to let through more than 32% of light. If you drive a sedan, the back side and rear windows have to meet that same figure. If you drive an SUV, van, or truck, everything behind the driver can be as dark as you want. Meters read the film and the glass together, so we test each car before it leaves.
Do you tint homes and businesses too?
Yes. Residential and commercial window film is a separate side of the business from the automotive work — heat rejection on west-facing glass, glare control in offices, and security film for ground-floor storefronts. Select "Building" in the quote form and we'll come measure.
How long will you have my car?
A tint job is usually a few hours. A coating with two-stage correction is typically two days, and heavier correction work can run three or four. We'll give you a firm timeline when we quote, and we don't start a correction stage we can't finish properly.
Do I need paint correction if my car is brand new?
Often, yes — more often than people expect. Dealer prep washes and transport handling put swirls into paint before you ever take delivery. New cars usually need a lighter single-stage polish rather than a full correction, but going straight to coating without looking is how defects get locked in for years.
Find out what your car needs
Tell us the vehicle and what's bothering you about it. We'll get back to you in one business day or less with an honest read on whether you need the full package or something lighter.
