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Trying to keep your car's paint in excellent condition takes money and time, but it makes a big difference in the overall quality and appearance of your vehicle. In the last couple of years, a large number of products have hit the marketplace that claim to be the very best and that will keep your paint of your car in great condition.

I'd say for the past several years or so, ceramic coating has been one of the most important technologies in all this. We will talk about whether ceramic coatings are worth the cost and whether they will be worth the time and effort. The ceramic coating industry has skyrocketed in popularity during the last ten years, providing some of the best paint and clear coat protection available.

There are usually offers for it, from your neighborhood detailing store to automotive social media content creators, to practically everywhere else. Almost everyone swears by this stuff. Lots of people get a little turned off when they get a good look at the cost the first time. Here's an easy breakdown of what ceramic coating is about. The main ingredient of a ceramic coating is silicon dioxide or silicon carbide.

This product is liquid, so it can be put on a vehicle 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. Historically, waxes have taken over the paint protection and auto detailing industries. 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.

360 Products (available at ADSO stores) make a line of products created with nano-ceramic technology. Due to this, everything changed. But like, why?

What made this product so revolutionary? Is there anything that separates a car wax from a ceramic coating, and why is it so expensive? Ceramic coatings offer much longer lifespan than wax coatings. A good wax will last you like three to six weeks before you have to reapply it. For ceramics, the lifespan is usually two to five years depending on the quality of the product and the application.

A ceramic coating also protects your paint from UV rays and natural things.

People have shown that they can just rinse off their vehicles after pouring mud on them, and this has been demonstrated time and time again, so I'm not going to tell you how great it is. There are times when people overhype things a little bit. And what I mean by that is that, because ceramic coating has become so popular, some detailers and people who promote ceramic coating like to stretch the truth just a tad. The reason is there are some common misconceptions about the product and about ceramic coating.

It does not eliminate or prevent water spots. I'm sorry, it'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. As a result of the hydrophobic properties of the ceramic coating, it allows water and droplets Near Central Valley to run off easier, which explains why you see it in the videos. 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. A protective film or Clear Bra would be an appropriate choice for something like that. And third of all, it's really not as expensive as you might think.

When ceramic coatings first came out, it cost nearly $1500 to have them done. Having said that, now you can have your car or truck professionally ceramic coated for just under $700 by a professional detailer.

A lot of times when you're going to get a quote for having your car coated, you might need to have your car paint corrected first which is where a lot of that extra cost comes in. Or, I mean, if you wanna just get a bottle of the stuff and do it yourself, learn the process, maybe mess it up once or twice, more power to you.

Everything costs more when it's new, and eventually that price goes down, that's just how things are. Getting your car ceramic coated however involves paying someone to apply the coating. You and your car need to think it's worth it.

I would recommend protecting those paint jobs if your vehicle is really nice. Spend a few hundred dollars on a ceramic coating for your car. And your car isn't the only thing that can be coated either. One of the most popular types of wheel coatings today is ceramic coatings. Having this done is so popular that we have started offering packages as an add-on when you're checking out. We can literally do it for you before you leave and it makes cleaning your tires so much easier.

But that's not all either, we've seen people get things like their seats and other interior parts ceramic coated, a bunch of things that they just don't wanna have to worry about scrubbing down to really get all the dirt off, it just makes the whole process so much easier.

It's up to you if it's something worth it to you. Honestly, the technology of ceramic coating has helped a ton of people and I know a ton of people here have it done to their vehicle because they just absolutely swear by it. The cost of putting this on a car or part of your car that you want to protect must be worth it to you.

You want to protect your investment. Let us know what you think about ceramic coating and if you've ever had it done.