If your vehicle is brand new, the process will most likely take 3 hour(s).

Our CarPro CQuartz ceramic coating permanently bonds to the paint and permanently seals it. Machine-induced abrasion, such as wet-sanding and heavy-compounding, is almost the only way to remove our coating. Repeated use of the wrong car wash place(e.g. a high traffic drive-thru wash) can be another reason for premature loss of coating properties. If you want to keep your car always looking at its best – although they are super convenient – you should stay away from drive-thru car wash places. One of the factors that reduce the hydrophobicity of the coating is scratching. Scratching not only reduces the slickness of the paint and increases surface friction, but also scrapes the ceramic coating at a microscopic level and exposes the clear coat to the elements. To extend the lifespan of the coating, we recommend washing your car using an automotive-grade power washer and collecting the dirt using a high number of clean microfiber towels. With proper care, you can take advantage of the great properties of our ceramic coating for long years.

Paint correction is a de facto process to prep an automotive paint for ceramic coating. For several reasons, paint correction is "a must", rather than "an option"; (1) We have to remove the surface-bonded contaminants before coating application, and clay barring is the industry-standard method to do so. It is, however, an abrasive process (a very light one though) and may add some extra swirls marks to the paint, depending on its hardness and the source of the contamination. For this reason, clay barring must always be proceeded with at least a one or a two-stage paint correction, (2) Even if your car is brand new, there may be car wash swirls on the paint. Another reason why we perform paint correction before a ceramic coating application is to remove these car wash swirls, and (3) Automotive painting is one of the areas where a manufacturer can dramatically reduce costs without getting a legal penalty or serious customer complaint. Some manufacturers – including but not limited to Tesla and General Motors – adopt "a reactive approach" and correct only a few (or maybe none) of the paint imperfections before the unit leaves the factory, whereas some manufacturers adopt "a proactive approach" and allocate much more resources for their painting and quality control operations. If your vehicle has quite visible paint imperfections, we correct them – free of charge for a certain number of them – before a ceramic coating application.