You can only imagine the damage that the sun’s harmful UV rays can do to your car’s paint job. Ceramic coating will protect your car’s paint from oxidizing, preventing it from fading and wearing a dull look. This is absolutely critical if you park your car outside.
Ceramic Coating: Does it really work?
Have you ever thought about applying ceramic coating to your car? Do the popular claims of it preserving your car’s paint job hold true? Is it better than waxing and polishing? And is it really worth it considering its price tag?
We know you have asked these questions many times only to end up more confused than before. The amount of contradicting information available on the web can be annoying at times. Which is why we have decided to clear them once and for all.
Today, we will walk you through the basics of ceramic coating for cars. What it is, what are its advantages and disadvantages, how it fares versus waxing and other alternatives, and what we as experts think about it. Here goes…
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Professional Ceramic Coating Basic
We get it. You want your car to look lovely all the time and you are open to trying anything that’s effective and permanent.
You have tried all the basic stuff like daily washing and monthly waxing to get rid of those scratches, stain marks, dirt, grime, and what-not. And yet they come back the following day with the additional swirl marks from all the washing.
So, you think of something else. A solution that will make your car look heavenly day in and day out with just little regular maintenance. Something that is a one-time affair against the menace of chemical etching and oxidation: you apply it and then forget about it for years.
But what about the naysayers? The critics who doubt about its reliability? Is there any truth in what the critics say about ceramic coating?
Is it really the best solution for preventing dirt and grime sticking in your car? Let’s find out.
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What is Ceramic Coating?
Industry-grade ceramic coating is a chemical polymer solution that is applied to the exterior of a vehicle to protect it from external paint damage. Typically applied by hand, it blends with the paint of your car and creates an additional hydrophobic layer of protection.
Due to this chemical bonding and creation of a new layer, the car’s factory paint job remains untouched.
While many car enthusiasts and even detailers believe it to be an alternative to clear bra (paint protection film), ceramic coating, in reality, is an alternative to waxing. The main idea is to prevent dirt, grime, and stain marks from appearing on the paint job and ruining the clear coat.
Ceramic coating, also sometimes called nano-ceramic coating, is a permanent or semi-permanent solution to your worries depending upon the coating and type of polymer used. Due to its chemically intrinsic properties, it does not break down in normal atmospheric conditions like rain or summer.
Modesta, Nanolex, CQuartz, Ceramic Pro and IGL Kenzo are some of most popular brands of ceramic coating today. But before you decide if you really want to try it out, let’s dig deeper.
People keep raving about it. So what more can it do for your car?
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Ceramic Coating Advantages & Benefits
Take anything that contains chemical compounds and you are looking at a resilient solution. Same goes for ceramic coating, which is both permanent and easier to clean once applied. Other than the obvious, here are a few more reasons to apply it in your car:
Protection from Harmful UV Rays
You can only imagine the damage that the sun’s harmful UV rays can do to your car’s paint job. Ceramic coating will protect your car’s paint from oxidizing, preventing it from fading and wearing a dull look. This is absolutely critical if you park your car outside
Heat resistance
Water Beading & Self Cleaning
Because ceramic coatings make an extremely slick surface your paint becomes hydrophobic, this allows water spots to bead up and roll off your car, carrying away dirt, grime and contaminants rather than letting it stick to your paint. Furthermore, most ceramic coatings have great anti dusting abilities which creates an anti static surface as a dust repellent keeping your car cleaner longer.
Increased gloss and shine
Because ceramic is essentially glass, when applied to your painted surface it fills in any left over pores and scratches that were left from paint correction (the process of refining and priming paint prior to car coating application). Paint correction in combination of ceramic coatings thickness and filling capabilities basically create a glass like effect that allows light to evenly reflect and magnifies the shine and gloss of your vehicle.
Thickness of Protection
Depending on the ceramic coating and amount of solid content in the formula (amount of SIO2 and/or TIO2) ceramic coatings can provide a vehicle a very thick measurable layer of protection. Longer lasting coatings on the market like 10+ year coatings can sometimes measure up to 8 microns worth of protection after proper application, now compare that to your traditional wax or sealant which both provide no measurable difference.
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Things that Ceramic Coating cannot do
Every product in the world has drawbacks. Whether they are deal breakers or not is for us to decide. These are not exactly demerits; just things that ceramic coating just does not promise to do.
Protection from All Types of Scratches and Swirl Marks
Ceramic coating will not protect your car from the usual threats: scratches, swirl marks, and rock chips. Despite its blending properties, it still retains the characteristics of paint.
Protection from Water Spotting
As discussed before, after the application of ceramic coating, water-based contaminants will bead on your car’s surface and eventually slide off. But they still contain natural minerals and soluble particles that will stay on the surface after the water has evaporated.
Ceramic coating cannot get rid of the water spots that are produced as a result, removal of which will require a far more hands-on approach. Please contact us today for more information about our Special Water Spot removal services.
Stop the Need for Car Wash
You will still need to regularly wash your car. A layer of ceramic coating does not give your car superpowers to auto-clean itself. While we are all waiting for a miracle product that would do that, for now, let’s focus on the bright side of ceramic coating.
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Final Thoughts
Is Ceramic Coating worth it?
The short answer is yes. As we have seen in this article, ceramic coating has great benefits that will add value to your car in the long run. It will make your job of cleaning and maintaining it less tedious. So that you spend more time driving and enjoying your car than thinking about ways to keep it protected.
But if you ask us whether it is a one-stop solution for all your paint worries, we would slant to the negative. There’s no one product in the market that will guarantee a complete protection of your car. If there were, we wouldn’t be discussing ceramic coating, one of the finest car paint protection services available today and at Xtrem Reflection Detail we use only the Finest Quality of Ceramic Coating.
Moreover, weighing the cost of ceramic coating against that of the yearly maintenance and waxing makes it a no-brainer.
The key to retaining the look of your car is to carry out regular maintenance. But if you are a car fanatic and are convinced about the wonders of ceramic coating and the value it will add to your car, get a quote from us today.
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