Places to Visit Near Visalia - An Overview

How to Prepare Your Vehicle for a Ceramic Coating- (CLAY BAR DETAILING)

When it comes down to all round quality and appearance of your vehicle, maintaining the paint on it is a time-consuming and, at times, quite expensive process. Nonetheless, keeping the paint on your car is extremely important. Lately, many products have appeared on the market that claim to be the best which will protect the paint on your vehicle.

Lately, ceramic coating has really grown in popularity. We will go over ceramic coatings and whether or not they are worth the investment. It's not a secret that ceramic coatings have exploded in popularity during the last several years, and they guarantee to offer some of the best paint protection you can apply to your car or truck.

There are almost always offers for it, from your neighborhood detailing shop to automotive social media content creators, to practically everywhere else. Most detailers swear by it. People get turned off by the cost the 1st time they look at it. Here's a quick breakdown of what ceramic coating is about. The key ingredient of a ceramic coating is silicon dioxide or silicon carbide.

Ceramic coatings is liquid, so it can be put on a car or truck and adhere to the finish of the car.

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. Waxes dominated the paint protection and auto detailing world for a long, long time. From using animal fats in the late 1800s and early 1900s to spruce up those old horse carriages, the industry experimented with plant-based alternatives that quickly became more widely accepted. As early as the 1900s, different waxes were used to detail vehicles and give them that shiny, glamorous appearance 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.

The 360 Products line of products (found within ADSO stores) uses nano-ceramic technology to help protect the painted surfaces of your car against scratches and other damage. And this literally changed everything. But like, why?

What made this product so revolutionary? How did car wax differ from ceramic coatings and why did it cost so much? The biggest key differentiator between a wax and a ceramic coating is the longevity of the application. You'll need a reapplication after about three or 6 weeks with a good wax. A ceramic coating will, on the other hand, typically last for about two to five years, depending on the quality and application.

It's better to use ceramic coating because it protects against UV rays and other things that can damage your paint.

It works fine, you've seen the videos of people throwing mud on their car or truck and it just slides off and they can just rinse it off. Occasionally people overhype things a little bit. In other words, a lot of detailers and people who are promoting ceramic coating like to slightly overstate the truth. The reason is there are some common misconceptions about the product and about ceramic coating.

It doesn't get rid of water spots. Unfortunately, that's the truth, although it does help. Since the ceramic coating has water-repelling properties, the water and water droplets run off much, much easier than a regular paint, which is why you see it in the videos. That reduces the possibility of 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. In addition, a ceramic coating cannot prevent rock chips and scratches.

I would not consider it a scratch-proof solution, even though it may provide some protection from light scratches. If something like that happens, maybe you should invest in some protective film or Clear Bra. The third thing is that it's really not that expensive.

Ceramic coatings were pricey when they first came out, possibly up to $1500 a pop But now you can have your car professionally ceramic coated by the inventors of the stuff itself, for right around $700.

In many cases, when you get a quote for having your car coated, you'll need the paint of the car corrected first(paint correction). That's 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.

In general, when something new like ceramic coating is introduced it costs quite a bit initially, and then eventually the price will come down over time, that's how it is. It is important to note that part of the cost of ceramic coating your car is paying someone to do the application for you. It has to be worth it for you and your car.

The paint on your car should absolutely be protected if it has a really nice paint job. Spend a couple hundred dollars, go get your car ceramic coated. And your car isn't the only thing that can be coated either. The ceramic coating of wheels, for instance, has become extremely popular. It's so popular that we've started offering Whip Our Wheel And Tire packages as an add-on when you're checking out, we can literally ceramic coat them for you before they head out the door and honestly it makes cleaning them so much easier.

Also, people get stuff like their seats and other interior parts ceramic coated, so they don't have to worry about scrubbing them off, and it's just so much easier.

It's up to you if it's something worth it to you. A lot of people here have ceramic coating done to their cars because they swear by it. All in all, it's here gotta be worth it to you, it's gotta be worth it to be putting on your car or part of your car.

This is an investment, so it is best to protect it. So please tell us what you think about ceramic coating and whether it is something you've done to your car, wheels, or seats.