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Sunscreen for the inside of your car

Hawaiʻi runs the highest UV load in the country, and it is cooking your dash and bleaching your seats every day the car sits outside. Paint can be polished back. An interior cannot. Interior ceramic blocks it, and makes spills wipe off instead of soak in.

Deluxe interior detail included From $219 with any exterior package Kona shop or mobile
Immaculate car interior in hard island sunlight
Visual proof

Before and after

A faded dash and a pale, dried-out seat are what a few island summers do to an unprotected interior. Both are permanent once they happen.

Before: sun-faded cracked dash and dried-out seat bolster
Before — UV fade, cracking, dried leather
After: the same dash and seat cleaned, conditioned and ceramic coated
After — cleaned, conditioned and coated
Coffee beading on top of a coated leather seat instead of soaking in
Spills sit on top instead of soaking in
Interior ceramic coating being applied to a dashboard by hand
Applied by hand, surface by surface
Every surface but one

What gets coated

Seats, door and side panels, dash, console, carpet, floor mats, headliner, trim and interior glass. The product is matched to the surface — fabric gets a penetrating repellent, leather and vinyl get a surface coating.

Seats — leather, vinyl or cloth Door & side panels Dash & console Carpet & floor mats Headliner Trim Interior glass Deluxe interior detail included

Not the touchscreen. Coating a capacitive screen can interfere with touch response and leave a haze on an anti-glare factory finish, so we clean it and leave it as the manufacturer finished it.

  • UV block on every surface — stops the fade, cracking and chalking that turns a dash grey and a door panel brittle
  • Stains sit on top — coffee, sunscreen, red dirt, wet swimsuits, kid spills. Wipe it off rather than scrub it out
  • Body sunscreen and skin oils — the things that actually ruin a steering wheel and an armrest on this island, blocked at the surface
  • Leather stays supple — no drying, no cracked bolsters
  • Dry matte finish — a coating, not a dressing. No greasy shine, nothing that transfers onto clothing
  • Cleans in a fraction of the time — a wipe-down, not a detail
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What interior ceramic costs

Prices shown are cash prices. Pay by cash or check and that is what you pay. The card price is shown in grey beside every figure — slightly higher, because card processing costs us that. Nothing is added at checkout either way: both prices are on the page before you book.

Hawaii GET is added at invoice and shown as its own line, at the state maximum visible pass-on of 4.712% (4% state + 0.5% Hawaiʻi County surcharge). Prices on this page do not include it.

A deluxe interior detail is included in every package — a $200 service on its own. The cabin has to be properly cleaned before anything is sealed.

Interior Ceramic Coating

Vehicle
With exterior package
On its own
You save
Sedan, coupe or truck
$219$227 card
$399$413 card
$180
Crossover or small SUV
$274$284 card
$499$517 card
$225
Van or large SUV
$329$341 card
$599$620 card
$270
Tour & commercial vans
from $384$398 card
from $699$724 card
$315

These size classes are not the same as the exterior ones. A pickup is priced in the first row here because the cab is small; the same truck is in the top row for exterior work because the body is large.

Book it with an exterior package

Stealth Diamond Borograph CeramicBody, glass, trim & wheels — permanent, 10+ years
from $1,000$1,035 card
Liquid PPF + Stealth DiamondAdds rock chip resistance — permanent, 15+ years
from $3,000$3,105 card

The lower interior price applies with any full exterior ceramic package. Booked on its own, the regular price applies.

Travel fee $50$52 card past 20 miles outside the Kona district. Gas on this island runs well above the mainland and the run to Waimea, Hawi or Hilo is real time in the truck — that fee goes straight to the technician working your job, not onto the service price. No fee if you drop off at our Kona shop near Magic Sands Beach Park — we give you the exact address when you book. We tell you the travel fee when you book, never when we arrive.

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In our customers’ words

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Rodaius GermanJune 2022

Above and beyond my expectations. My vehicle was in rough shape in the interior and they managed to restore to like new conditions like the day I bought it. Communicated effectively and very transparent. Will use again and highly recommend.

Frances ChipserApril 2025

We are so pleased with the job That Skylar at Zippy Klean did on our car. It was covered in tons of dog hair inside, we thought it would never come clean. He came to our house and worked for hours vacuuming and cleaning the interior and the exterior. It was sparkling inside and out.

Suzanne PattersonMay 2025

Zippy Klean was recommended by the dealer in Honolulu for my new 2025 Porsche. I was VERY impressed by the rep who detailed the car at my house. He was extremely knowledgeable and you can't beat the convenience! They're my "go-to guys" now!

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Send a few photos of the cabin and we will come back with a firm number. Or call and we will talk it through — most quotes take about five minutes.

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Interior ceramic questions

How much does interior ceramic coating cost on the Big Island?

Interior ceramic is $399 for a sedan, coupe or truck, $499 for a crossover or small SUV, and $599 for a van or large SUV — or $219, $274 and $329 when booked alongside a full exterior ceramic package.

Every interior ceramic package includes a deluxe interior detail, which is a $200 service on its own. The cabin has to be properly cleaned before anything is sealed, so it is not an upsell — it is a necessary step we do not charge separately for.

Note the size classes here are not the same as the exterior ones. A pickup is priced in the first column for interior work because the cab is small, while the same truck is in the top column for exterior work because the body is large.

Why does interior protection matter more in Hawaii?

Because Hawaiʻi carries the highest sustained UV load of any U.S. state — a UV index around 7 in winter and 11+ in summer — and unlike paint, an interior cannot be polished back.

The sun is not closer here. At 19°N it is nearly overhead, so its rays cross far less atmosphere than they do on the mainland and arrive with much less of the UV filtered out. That is what cracks dashboards and bleaches seats.

The asymmetry is the point. Faded paint can often be corrected. A cracked dash and a bleached seat are replacement jobs, and on a lot of vehicles that costs more than the coating would have.

What does interior ceramic actually protect against?

Interior ceramic blocks UV fade, stops stains from soaking in, and resists the body sunscreen and skin oils that break down a steering wheel and armrest faster than anything else in the cabin.

Sunscreen deserves its own mention on this island. People here wear it every day, and it transfers onto the wheel, the shifter and the armrest constantly. It is one of the harshest things a car interior routinely meets, and it is the reason those three surfaces always go first.

The stain part is what people notice day to day: coffee, sunscreen, red dirt, wet swimsuits, dog and kid spills. They sit on top of the coating instead of soaking into the fibre, so you wipe them off rather than scrub them out.

Why do you not coat the touchscreen?

We do not coat touchscreens because the coating can interfere with capacitive touch response and leave an uneven haze on an anti-glare factory finish.

Everything around it is coated — the dash, the console surround, the trim and the vents. The screen itself is cleaned and left as the manufacturer finished it. Any shop that tells you they coat the screen is either using something different or has not thought about it.

Does interior ceramic work on cloth seats as well as leather?

Yes. It is applied to leather, vinyl, Alcantara, cloth and carpet — the product is matched to the surface, so fabric gets a penetrating repellent while leather and vinyl get a surface coating.

On cloth and carpet the effect is the one people recognise from outdoor gear: liquid beads up and sits on the surface long enough to be blotted away before it reaches the foam underneath. Useful on an island where people get into cars wet more often than not.

On leather it is a hard protective layer that takes the wear instead of the hide.

Will it make my leather look shiny or feel greasy?

No. Interior ceramic cures to a dry, matte factory-look finish — it is a coating, not a dressing, so there is no greasy film, no gloss and nothing that transfers onto clothing.

This is the main objection we hear, and it comes from experience with silicone-based interior dressings that leave a slick shine and attract dust. Those sit on the surface and wipe off. This bonds to it and stays dry to the touch.

How long does interior ceramic coating last?

Several years on low-contact surfaces such as the dash, headliner and door panels, and faster wear on high-contact points like the driver’s seat bolster, steering wheel and armrest.

That is physics rather than product quality — the places you touch every day are the places any coating wears first. Customers on our maintenance program get those contact points refreshed as part of the annual service.

The interior coating is independent of the exterior one, so it can be booked on its own at any time, before or after an exterior package.

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