Professional Ceramic Coating Installers in Boca Raton
Add extra gloss, ease of maintenance, and protection to your vehicle.
What is a Ceramic Coating?
At one point in time, a paste wax was the top shelf choice to enhance your vehicle’s shine while also protecting your paint from external elements like rain, bird poo, dirt, etc…
Fast forward 20 years, a bunch of scientists work their magic in a lab, and we now have a far more durable and superior form of protection: ceramic coatings.
Unlike Mr. Miyagi, this is not a “wax-on-wax-off” application. The ceramic coating is a semi-permanent liquid layer that bonds to the vehicles surface. It is commonly referred to as a “sacrificial” layer of protection as it’ll absorb the weather elements like rain, dirt, and snow to better protect the paint underneath.
As an analogy: The wax is like a tent protecting you in a forest. The ceramic coating is like a brick house in the forest. Both offer protection from rain and dust, but one is nothing like the other. If you want the ultimate form of protection that has no rival, you’d want paint protection film (PPF).
The Benefits of a Ceramic Coating
There are a lot of coating companies that make some pretty big claims of what it can do. Although there’s some truth to the claims, I don’t like to oversell the capabilities of it.
So here are some benefits you actually get with a coating:
👍🏽 Produces a durable layer of protection that lasts 3 to 6 years
👍🏽 You only need to apply it once (and not every 3 months like other forms of protection)
👍🏽 Creates a deep level of gloss that’s incomparable to other forms of protection like wax or sealant
👍🏽 Provides unmatched hydrophobic properties that keeps your car cleaner and makes it easier to wash
👍🏽 It can be installed on paint, glass, wheels, vinyl film, and paint protection film
Before the coating is installed, your vehicle must first be properly prepped and corrected with one of our paint correction services. If you apply the coating without the proper prep work, you’re not able to get all the benefits from the coating.
That’s the difference of a professional ceramic coating installer. Additionally, if it’s not properly installed, you won’t get the actual benefits and you’ll see a ton of smudges across your vehicle.
This is what we consider “high spots”. You’ll see this when the coating was not properly applied and it was left to dry for too long without wiping off.
As a general rule of thumb, the more durable the coating, for instance, a 1 year versus a 9 year coating, the harder it is to install. You have to understand the weather variables as that can play a major factor in the installation process.
Different coatings react different to when it’s humid, cold, or hot. And if you’ve been in South Florida for longer then three hours, you’ll know the weather is always changing. That’s why we exclusively do our coating installations in garaged locations or at the Slick Auto Styling Garage.