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The Best Way To Prepare Your Car or Truck for a Ceramic Coating- (CLAY BAR DETAILING)

Maintaining your car's paint is often a time intensive and sometimes pretty pricey procedure, however it makes a huge difference regarding its overall look and quality. Numerous products have hit the market in recent decades that claim to be the best and will keep your paint of your car in tip-top shape.

Ceramic coating has really been at the forefront of all of this in the last several years or so. We are going to go over whether ceramic coatings will be worth the expense and whether they will be worth the work. In the last ten years, ceramic coatings have gained enormous popularity, offering the very best paint protection offered.

You can find it advertised almost everywhere, from detailing stores to automotive content creators. Almost everyone swears by this stuff. The first time people see the price, they are often discouraged. Let's start with understanding what ceramic coating actually is. A ceramic coating is often called a nano coating and contains the key component silicon dioxide, or in many instances, silicon carbide.

It is available in liquid form that allows it to be put on to a car and protect finish.

Once it's hardened, the Silicon dioxide properties and other properties of the coating form an extra protective shell, I guess you could call it, that repels the water and provide some protection from the sun's UV rays and all that good stuff. The paint protection and auto detailing industry was dominated by waxes for a long, long time. What started out as using fats from animals in the late 1800s and early 1900s to give those old horse carriages a good spit shine, quickly and thankfully evolved into some more cruelty-free solutions using plant-based products. Throughout the 1900s, several waxes were used to detail cars and give them that beautiful glossy sheen that their owners desired.

If you wanted to keep your paint looking good, repel water and add just that good little bit of layer of protection, adding a good layer of wax was your solution.

One of 360 Products' (available at ADSO stores) products was developed with nano-ceramic technology in order to protect and enhance the paint finish of vehicles. Due to this, everything changed in a big way. But like, why?

How did this new product change the game? What were the key differences between car wax and ceramic coatings, and why did ceramic coatings cost so much? Ceramic coatings are distinguished from wax coatings by their longer lifetime. A good wax will last anywhere between like three or six weeks, before you're gonna have to do a re-application. For ceramics, the lifespan is usually two to five years depending on the quality of the product and the application.

Furthermore, ceramic coatings protect against UV rays and other natural things.

In general, it works excellently, and I don't have to sit here and tell you, you've seen mud fall off cars and trucks and then they can wash it out with a hose. In the end, though, from time to time people just like to over-hype things. And what I mean by that is that, because ceramic coating has become so popular, some detailers and here people who promote ceramic coating like to stretch the truth just a tad. The product and ceramic coating in general are subject to a few common misconceptions.

In the first place, it does not eliminate water spots. Unfortunately, it is the truth, even though it does help. Its hydrophobic characteristics allow water and water droplets to flow off the surface more easily, as seen in the videos, reducing the amount of possible water spots. Thanks to the hydrophobic properties of the ceramic coating, water and water droplets easily run off the surface, which is why it appears on the videos, which lowers the chance of water spots appearing. Furthermore, ceramic coatings do not provide adequate protection against rock chips and scratches.

Even though it may protect against light scratches here and there, I wouldn't see it as a 100 proof solution. If something like that happens, maybe you should invest in some protective film or Clear Bra. And third of all, it's really not as expensive as you might think.

It was pretty expensive when ceramic coating first came out, costing upwards of $1500 Having said that, now you can have your car professionally ceramic coated for only under $700 by a professional detailer.

Many times, if you intend to have your car coated, you first need to have the paint of your car corrected (remove light scratches), which is where a lot of the extra cost comes from. If you don't mind getting a bottle of the stuff and trying it yourself, learning the process, maybe messing it up once or twice, go for it.

Every new thing costs a bit at first, and over time, it'll eventually come down. That's just how it goes. It is important to note that part of the cost of ceramic coating your car is paying someone to do the application for you. You and your car need to think it's worth it.

If you own a nice paint job on your car, you should protect it. You can ceramic coat your car for a couple hundred dollars. It is not only your car that can be coated. One of the most popular types of wheel coatings today is ceramic coatings. As a result, we've begun offering it as an add-on option when you check out. This way, we can coat your tires before you head out of the door. ( you will see how much easier it is to clean them afterwards)

We've also seen people get their seats and other interior parts ceramic coated, stuff that they don't want to have to worry about scrubbing off, and that makes cleaning so much easier.

So, if that is something that you find valuable, then by all means, go for it. There has been a lot of progress in ceramic coating technology, and a lot of people here have had their vehicles coated because they swear by the results. You've got to think about it from all sides, and it's gotta be worth it for you to be protecting your car or part of your car with it.

Since your car will be your second biggest purchase, it's a good idea to invest in something like a coating to keep the value high. Tell us how you feel about ceramic coating and if you have had it applied to any of your cars, wheels, or seats.