Anyone have experience with Ford SurfaceCARE?

[GatorJ_MME]

I'm supposed to pick up my car tomorrow and the dealer is offering $697 for tinting the front windows and SurfaceCARE with a 3 year warranty.

It doesn't look like SurfaceCARE is a ceramic coating based on 2020-2021 Ford Protect SurfaceCARE Brochure (dealer.com)

Did anyone get SurfaceCARE, and do you think it was worth it? I figure it would cost me between $200 - $400 to have the front two windows tinted on my own (plus additional time of taking to a different shop), so I'm thinking of SurfaceCARE as a $300 add-on.

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[A-A-Ron]

Not familiar with SurfaceCARE, but I can tell you that I paid my dealer to tint the front windows and when I brought it in, they were supposed to do it while I waited. So I'm sitting in the service lobby and about 30 minutes in I'm curious if they've brought my car back (and I'm lazy) so I pull up the Ford Pass app to see if my car's in the service bay and the car's location actually came up 7 miles away in the middle of the install bay at Car Toys.

You're probably better off just taking it to Car Toys or another reputable car accessory installer and saving yourself the high-markup dealer addons.

 

[willowma]

I bought SurfaceCARE with the 7 year warranty when I got my MME in September 2021. So far it has held up well and I've only needed periodic touchless car washes even through Massachusetts winters. To me it was a good tradeoff vs ceramic coatings or PPF film. It was aimed at protecting against pollen, tree sap, salt etc rather than damage to the car via road chips or something scraping the paint. The cost of reapplying ceramic or PPF if there is actual damage to the car seemed much too expensive in comparison.

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