03/18/2024
How to Care for your Ceramic Coating 💧✅
✅🧽Washing🧽:
For the most part, washing a ceramic coated vehicle is much like washing any other vehicle. You need to exercise proper washing procedures using safe products and tools, in order to reduce the chance of wash-induced damage, like scratches and swirl marks to as minimal as possible!!
❌ Automatic Car Washes❌:
Automatic car washes with brush systems are highly discouraged. These large, spinning brushes can trap dirt and debris from previous vehicles that have run through the wash bay throughout the course of the day, and this debris will then contact your vehicle!
While Ceramic Coating does provide a stronger and more resistant surface on your vehicle, it can still scratch and develop swirl marks, so if you are using automatic car washes, i strongly advise against it. Never use their wash brushes on your paint. While it may be tempting to grab that brush hanging on the wall of the wash bay, you have no idea what type of off-road vehicle may have used that brush before your arrival!
✅😷Contamination😷:
Iron deposits are a second type of contamination that eventually build up on both coated and non-coated vehicles and can be difficult to remove. These iron particles appear as tiny brownish-orange dots, almost like a rust spot the size of a pinhead or smaller, and they especially stand out as an eyesore on lighter colored vehicles like white, silver, gray, and so on. There are specific ways to safely remove each type of contamination, whether they are ferrous (containing iron) or more organic substances. In other words, what works on iron and metal particles may not work well on other contamination, and vice versa. Iron Remover should not be used on a warm or hot surface, so allow the vehicle to cool off or rinse it again with cold water before use. Spray Iron Remover generously and directly onto a painted surface, and allow it to dwell for a few minutes.
✅🧼Clay Bar🧼:
Two common misconceptions are that you should never have to use a clay bar on a ceramic coated vehicle or that you cannot clay a coated vehicle at all. We disagree with these statements. At a minimum, we recommend claying the areas that come in high-contact with road debris - the sides of the vehicle, bumpers, and the trunk/tailgate - at least twice per year, but you may find that you need to use Fine Grade Clay more often or less often than this, depending on your driving conditions and how frequently you drive your vehicle. Only clay a surface after it has been washed - if you clay a dirty surface, the clay bar will become saturated with dirt and grit, which can then scratch paint.
Feel free to DM us if you have more Questions/Concerns on how to properly care for your coated vehicle😁
