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Originally Posted by MADBMWX5MC
.............the key is understanding what ceramic coating is and is not. ..............
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After retiring, my car is no longer a "daily driver" sitting in a parking lot for 8 hours, I decided to get myself a nice car that I could enjoy driving. What better car to get than the Ultimate Driving Machine!
I've always done my own car care, so I researched ceramic coating on the internet, and now feel that if you get a nice brand new car now, you'd be a fool NOT to have it treated, either by paying the dealer, a detailing shop, or doing it yourself. If you are buying a car that doesn't cost much or you don't care about it, then you probably will never bother to even wax the car, so this isn't for you.
The way I saw someone (probably on YT) explain it; imagine the paint on your car looked at through a microscope, and the clearcoat looks like the surface of the moon. Ceramic coat is basically liquid glass, and by applying it to the clear coat (and glass, plastics) you are filling in all those craters and when you wipe (level) it off, smoothing the surface so that contaminants (dirt, pollen) won't stick to the surface as easily, making it easier to wash off, by what ever method you decide to use. The car will still get dirty, but the ceramic coating will make it so much easier to wash it clean again. Read through the previous comments above. There is so much information here in these forums, and even more out on the web.
I wish this stuff was available the last time I bought a new car that I wanted to keep forever. In 1987 the best you could do was wax the car to protect it. If there was something better I didn't know about it since that was before all the knowledge of the internet. The 18 years I had that car, it got waxed every year, and put less than 500 miles on it each year. One thing I did then that I won't ever do again is cover a car. Now I know that a cotton cover will sift dust through, and every time you go to drive it and take the cover off, you are putting micro scratches into the clearcoat. With the ceramic coating, we can rinse and dry without even touching the paint.