I want to tell you about something we just launched, and why.
Ten years ago, we opened APC Auto Spa because we saw a gap. Ceramic coating and paint protection film were becoming standard for people who cared about their vehicles, but the follow-through, the actual care of those investments over time, was a mess. Coatings would get installed and then neglected. PPF would go years without proper maintenance. Customers would spend thousands on protection and then watch it slowly fail because nobody made maintenance easy.
We've spent the last decade fixing that for our customers, one Annual Maintenance appointment at a time. And that experience is exactly what led us to build APC Membership.
For a long time, our best customers have been the ones who came back religiously, Annual Maintenance every twelve months, hand washes throughout the year, always trusting us with their coated or PPF-protected vehicles. These are the customers who understand that a coating installation is only worth the investment if it's maintained.
But maintaining that kind of routine takes effort. It means remembering when your maintenance is due. It means budgeting for it. It means booking hand washes throughout the year and coming to us for other services instead of the shop down the street.
We wanted to make it easier. And we wanted to reward the customers who were already doing it, the ones who never needed a reminder to come back, who trusted us as part of their vehicle's long-term care.
That's what APC Membership is.
Every Protected tier includes APC Hand Washes, credit toward Annual Maintenance, and 15% off additional services:
Annual Maintenance credit. A credit is added with each paid membership payment, including enrollment. Twelve payments cover your vehicle's own Annual Maintenance price. The credit does not expire on a calendar date and restarts after each Annual Maintenance service.
APC Hand Washes throughout the year. Depending on which tier you pick, you get 2, 3, or 11 APC Hand Washes per year included in your membership. These aren't drive-through washes, they're the same standard we hold for coating and PPF prep work. Interior vacuum, door jambs, wheel faces and barrels, exhaust tips, windows in and out, tire dressing. The kind of wash your coating actually deserves.
15% off other services. Every time you visit APC for something else, window tint, PPF, a paint correction, upgrades, you save 15% as a member. Every visit.
Founding members who enrolled by August 29, 2026 received a 24-month price lock. That lock ends if the membership is canceled; new memberships do not include it.
APC Membership is exclusively for customers with ceramic coating or paint protection film installed on their vehicle. Whether we installed it or another shop did, as long as your vehicle has active coating or PPF, you're eligible.
The program is designed around one idea: protecting your coating and PPF investment over the long term should be simple, predictable, and worth it.
If your vehicle doesn't have coating or PPF yet, membership isn't quite for you yet. But if you're considering coating or PPF from us, joining membership right after installation stacks the value, 15% off future services, credit from each paid payment toward maintenance, and included APC Hand Washes.
The math is simple: if you already buy Annual Maintenance from us, plus a hand wash or two per year, plus any other service, you're likely paying more than membership costs. Members who use their included services regularly get more value from the program than they pay in dues. The 15% discount on top of that is a bonus.
Here's a real example using today's plan and service prices. A new Protected Plus SUV/Truck member pays $56 per month in dues. Their membership includes:
$740 in included services for $672 per year. And that's before the 15% discount on anything else they buy.
Members who don't visit often may find they don't need the highest tier. Members who use APC frequently often find the highest tier pays for itself several times over.
The three tiers exist because different customers have different needs:
Each tier is priced by vehicle type (Car, SUV/Truck, 3rd Row, Sprinter), so what you pay reflects the actual work involved with your specific vehicle.
I said above that our prices are going up. Here's what that means.
On August 30, 2026, our APC Hand Wash prices and our Annual Ceramic Coating Maintenance prices increase by 20%. This is the first meaningful price change we've made in a long time. It reflects real increases in what materials, labor, insurance, and equipment cost us, and it lets us keep delivering the same quality of work you've come to expect from APC.
Every other service we offer stays at current pricing.
Founding members who enrolled by August 29, 2026 received a 24-month price lock. The lock ends if the membership is canceled, and new memberships do not include it.
For founding members, that was real money. A Protected Plus SUV/Truck member who enrolled before the deadline could lock in $46/month; a new member now pays $56/month for the same tier.
Founding-member pricing was a limited enrollment benefit for members who joined by August 29, 2026.
Everything happens online through your APC My Garage account. If you already have a Garage account, sign in at garage.apcautospa.com and go to Membership. If you don't have an account yet, you can create one when you enroll.
The enrollment flow takes a few minutes:
No APC Hand Wash credit is issued at signup. Protected and Care earn washes at their tier's paid-payment milestones; Ultimate earns one with each monthly payment starting with the second. Annual-service credit begins with the paid enrollment payment and continues with each paid payment.
If you have questions, reply to this post, call us at (425) 818-2820, or come see us at either location. We'll walk you through it.
I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to run a business built on trust. Customers trust us with vehicles that mean something to them, daily drivers they depend on, weekend cars they've saved up for, work vehicles that keep their businesses running. Every one of those relationships was built over years of showing up and doing the work right.
APC Membership is our way of saying: we want to keep doing this for the long haul, and we want to make it easier for you to keep coming back. The credit from each paid payment takes the sticker-shock out of Annual Maintenance. The included hand washes make regular care actually happen instead of getting put off. Founding members who enrolled by August 29, 2026 also received a 24-month price lock, which ends if they cancel.
We built this because our best customers deserved something better than showing up once a year and paying full retail. Founding members who enrolled by August 29, 2026 were able to lock in what we had been charging.
If you have coating or PPF and you've been trusting APC with it, this is for you. Take a look at apcautospa.com/membership, see what makes sense for your vehicle, and enroll if it does.
Thank you for continuing to trust us with your vehicles.
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