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      09-05-2024, 10:28 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by cooolone2 View Post
If you take care of your paint, you don't need a coating. I feel the coating makes owners lazy, and there's issues too with ceramic coatings if you don't recharge them too. It's not a fix all for taking care of your paint! A detailing, prep, polish, sealant and A1 quality waxing will provide the same protection! Biggest issue with ceramics is if you ever have the need to repair, the coating must be taken off with an abrasive prior to the panel being fixed! With regular coatings this is by far 10x easier! Lol

Anyways...
I follow, but disagree as well. I've found that with ceramic, the actual cleaning process is far easier. Bugs for example come off the front just spraying with my garden hose, where I used to have to at least use a sponge and maybe some bug remover as well.

For repair, you do have to polish off the ceramic, but - if you're repairing something that requires it to come off, you're probably already doing that anyhow. Any damage or scratch removal already has polishing involved so I don't really see the difference.

I'd suggest an in-between which is to DIY a spray coating. Something claimed to last 2 years is likely good for at least one. So you can DIY it once a year.

I don't hate wax, I still use Zaino on my wife's car. But once it runs out she'll get a spray ceramic. Now that I've had some experience applying it and cleaning it, I do think it is indeed better. Maybe not worth all of the hype it gets, but it is better.
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