Coatings do offer great resistance to environmental contamination and excellent self-cleaning characteristics for people who love clean cars but aren’t really into cleaning their cars now and then. While they are not a permanent solution to cleaning your cars, the right coating can keep your car clean with less effort and make maintenance easier. Normally, people spend hours detailing, washing, and waxing to keep their vehicles looking brand new but day-to-day wear and tear can take a toll on your vehicle no matter how many times you wax it and that is why applying a ceramic coating is a better solution.

Ceramic coating is a liquid polymer that’s applied to your car like a coat of wax, it then chemically bonds with the factory paint on your car and gives it an additional layer of protection. Unlike wax, ceramic coating can’t be removed by washing, it’s there to stay, which means you won’t have to reapply it every few months. It’s a permanent or semi-permanent bond, so it doesn’t break down easily and will stick around a lot longer than even a high-quality wax.

Benefits of Applying Ceramic Coating

There are several benefits to putting a ceramic coating on your car paint, first, it’s easier to clean. It’s hydrophobic and repels water, so water can bead up and slide off a lot more easily than if you just had your paint or even a coat of wax. This means mud and dirty water won’t be able to stick to your car as easy and even if they do, they’ll be a lot easier to rinse off. You won’t have to scrub as hard when detailing your car, nor will you have to apply another coat of ceramic coating every few months like you would with car wax.

Second, as mentioned before it repels moisture (so that’s an added protection against rust) and it is more durable and longer-lasting than wax. It offers an additional layer of protection between your car’s paint and the environment, which means it keeps things like UV rays and oxidization (and subsequent paint fading), chemical staining and etching, and even some small chips and scratches away from your car’s paint. Ceramic coating also blocks out other types of sunlight from reaching the interior of your car. This helps you maintain a cooler temperature and protects the interior from fading and damage.

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Ceramic coating lasts much longer than the average 5-6 months for a coat of car wax. Its strong layers allow it to be more resistant to scratches and damage. This also means that it doesn’t have to be applied as often, saving you time and money. Since it is transparent and it enhances the reflective properties of your car’s paint, ceramic coating keeps your car looking clean and glossy, and so you’ll always have that fresh-off-the-lot shine going on.

Cons of Applying Ceramic Coating

Disadvantages of ceramic coating include the potential for scratches and water spots since ceramic coating repels but doesn’t remove water, and hence it may stay and create spots. Ceramic coating is more expensive, time-consuming, and needs professional installation. Creating the materials for ceramic coating is a difficult process because they must be exact to create an effective barrier. This, along with growing demand, leads to high prices.

Ceramic coating is difficult to remove, it will also begin to scratch over the years of car operation, albeit much later than the native paintwork. Then it will have to be removed. Removing obsolete coating is not an easy procedure. You will have to polish it completely and only then apply a new layer of protection.

Several layers of liquid polymer and other strong materials create a powerful coat, but nothing can protect a car against everything, and so ceramic coating is not 100% swirl & scratch proof. Using this product won’t prevent your car from getting scratches and paint chips altogether, ceramic coating reduces the adverse effects of these threats but can’t fully protect your car, however, it blends minority scratch marks.

Also applying ceramic coating doesn’t mean that you can stop washing your car, it is not a miraculous product that is capable of auto-cleaning. You still need to wash regularly. But comparatively, you won’t need to toil much while washing.

Is Ceramic Coating Worth It?

The simple answer is yes, although there are potential disadvantages that may come into play, they’re outweighed by all the advantages that ceramic coating provides. 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.