sjwhiteley
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Black is particularly difficult to keep looking good. While I’m not a fan of ceramic coating (nothing wrong with it, in fact, it’s excellent) if I went with a black car, I think ceramic is a must.
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bushpilot
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curious about your comments regarding ceramic coatings?
3tonsoffun
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Think of it this way, you spend $3500 on a ceramic coating. Car looks perfect, now you’ve got to hope the shop or person that did it for you offers monthly maintenance on the coating. If they don’t, now you have to maintain it with ceramic coating specific products, which aren’t cheap. Then you have to worry about people denting your vehicle. Ceramic coating doesn’t prevent that from happening. Or worse, you get in a vehicle accident and have to have several panels replaced or repainted. Now your having to pay for more coating. While ceramic coatings look nice, without the proper maintenance or if it’s damaged you’re just throwing your money down the drain. A good clay bar, compound, polish, glaze, wax is easier for some ppl
bushpilot
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I get it....BUT....you're doing the paint/maint either way....and im trying to cut down on the time it takes to clean these things (id rather drive 'em)....Ive been using DI water to rinse (our water is over 450ppm TDS).
Prices have come down a lot - I didn't pay your quoted price for full paint correction, 3 M clear bra (the entire front clip/full fenders & hood) AND tinting ALL windows....her Miata was slightly more than a good detail - and that car needed some paint correction (its 11 yrs old).
I'll also same the same thing happens w/ a dent or a crash...you have to paint the car (or maybe some dont).
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sjwhiteley
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Obviously, everyone wants their car looking nice and pristine, as close or better than new car as long as possible. Black is a very difficult color to keep looking good - or rather, closer to that new car shine. Ceramic coatings help keep it that way a lot longer.
Its hard to stave off the inevitable, though, if you drive your car on a more daily basis. Dings, scrapes, chips. Regular, proper, washing and it still looks good. Even with ceramic coating, while it’ll look even better after a wash if the coating is taken care of, it still needs washing.
Its hard to stave off the inevitable, though, if you drive your car on a more daily basis. Dings, scrapes, chips. Regular, proper, washing and it still looks good. Even with ceramic coating, while it’ll look even better after a wash if the coating is taken care of, it still needs washing.
bushpilot
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I dont think anyone is suggesting that ceramic eliminates washing.
On our '17 Platinum F350 triple white - the pain was so thin on the front bumper that in less than 12k miles it was full of chips (and I dont drive on dirt roads)...the ceramic coating would have protected that paint (at least some)...I should have used ceramic AND 3M clear bra on that truck....the at 25k miles bumper looked like some jr high school teenager
3tonsoffun
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Probably would’ve chipped off when they bake it under UV lighting to cure it. And again, if it did chip with the ceramic coating on it you’d be back in the shop paying for another bumper to be ceramic coated after having it repainted...
Eddie1965
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Just got mine a couple of weeks ago. Limited FX4 Max
carymccarr
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Oh Plati16...here we go again.
$3500 for a coating?! LOL
I get my entire massive SUV’s heavily wrapped (entire hood, fenders, all bumpers and bottom half of doors), cleaned, detailed, coated and tinted for $3500.
Ceramic QD’s, ceramic safe washes and maintainers can be had for as low as $20/bottle that will last you a year.
3tonsoffun
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Before jumping to conclusions and assumptions, that $3500 is for a paint decon, wash, multi stage paint correction, 3M or Suntek PPF, two layers of cquartz ceramic coating on all vehicle surfaces, wheels off undercarriage decon and coating, cquartz ceramic on wheels AND comes with bi annual coating maintenance built in for 7 years. But I digress, Cary
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