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In terms of overall quality and appearance, trying to keep your trucks, car paint in excellent condition will take effort and money. Recently, many products have showed up in the marketplace that claim to be the best and that will protect the paint on your vehicle.

I'd say for the last 10 years or so, ceramic coating continues to be one of the most essential technologies in all this. We will go over ceramic coatings and whether or not they are worth the cost. During the last decade, ceramic coatings have gained enormous popularity, providing the very best paint protection on the market.

There are usually offers for it, from your neighborhood detailing store to automotive social media content creators, to practically everywhere else. Most detailers swear by it. People get turned off by the price tag the first time they look at it. First let's figure out what ceramic coating is. A ceramic coating is also called a nano coating and contains the key component silicon dioxide, or usually, silicon carbide.

The fact that it comes in a liquid form allows it to be applied to a vehicle and adhere to the vehicle's finish like no other product on the market.

After it hardens, the silicon dioxide and other coating characteristics form an additional protective shell that repels water and protects against UV radiation. For the longest time, wax ruled the auto detailing and paint protection industries. It used to be that when old horse carriages needed a good shine, they used animal fats. But that quickly changed, thankfully, into more cruelty-free solutions using plant-based products. A variety of waxes were used to detail automobiles and give them the beautiful, glossy sheen that their owners desired during the 1900s.

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. This was a game changer. But like, why?

What made this product so revolutionary? Why is a ceramic coating so expensive compared to car wax? What are the factors that distinguish ceramic coatings from car wax? Ceramic coatings offer much longer lifespan than wax coatings. A good wax will last anywhere between like three or six weeks, before you're gonna have to do a re-application. A ceramic coating will, on the other hand, typically last for about two to five years, depending on the quality and application.

In addition, ceramic paint protects better against UV rays and other things that harm your paint.

It works fine, you've seen the videos of people throwing mud on their car and it just slides off and they can just rinse it off. However, sometimes people just like to over-hype it just a little bit. Some people who promote ceramic coatings stretch the truth just a little bit because ceramic coating has become so popular. Meaning that there are some common misconceptions about the product and about ceramic coating out there.

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 website 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 to run off easier, which explains why you see it in the videos. Number two, a ceramic coating will not prevent rock chips and scratches.

While it might prevent light scratches here and there, I wouldn't consider it more than a 60-70% scratch proof solution. If you are looking for something like that, then probably you should consider having a protective film or a clear bra installed. Finally, it isn't as expensive as it seems.

When ceramic coatings first came out, it cost nearly $1500 to have them done. But now you can have your car professionally ceramic coated by the inventors of the stuff itself, for right around $700.

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. 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.

Every new thing costs a bit at first, and over time, it'll eventually come down. That's just how it goes. 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. Invest a couple hundred dollars in getting your car ceramic coated. Your car isn't the only thing you can apply a coating to. The ceramic coating of wheels, for instance, has become extremely popular. There's so much demand that we've started offering packages as an add-on when you check out. We'll ceramic coat them for you before you head out the door, and it makes cleaning so much easier.

Additionally, people have ceramic coated seats and other interior parts, a bunch of things that they don't like to have to scrub down to really remove all the dirt, so it makes the whole process very easy.

And if that's something that's worth it to you, then by all means, there you go. 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. So, in all sense, it's gotta be worth it to you, it's gotta be worth it to be putting on a car or part of your car that you want to protect.

You want to protect your investment. If you've had ceramic coating applied to your car, or wheels, or seats, please let us know how you liked it.