We have many clients that have purchased a ceramic coating application, and we provide quarterly and annual check ups to help maintain the coating for maximum performance. We also wanted to assist our blog followers on properly maintaining your car’s ceramic coating from a DIY perspective.

First lets cover some critical tips:

1. Once you have your car ceramic coating, you should never run it through an auto wash with brushes. Even auto washes with what they call soft touch wash are also a no go. These auto washes will scratch or mar your ceramic coating. If you must, you should only use an auto wash that is touchless, meaning there aren’t any physical brushes or shamois that touch the surface of the paint. Even in this case be cautious, touchless auto washes use harsh chemicals to remove or dissolve dirt. This may leave a film on your cars surface, which is not harmful for the paint since it is cermamic coated. Your best option is to continue to hand wash with a PH neutral car soap that is coating safe, using the 2 bucket method, explained in an earlier blog post.

2. If you need to decontaminate the coating as you maintain it, only use a chemical decontamination like Irox-X spray to remove accumulated iron deposits. Do not use a clay bar, which will abraid the ceramic coating.

3. No polishing with a DA or rotary polishers, which will actually remove the coating. Polishing should only be done if you are preparing to remove the coating in order to reapply a new coating.

4. After a safe hand wash you can maintain the ceramic coating performance by applying a ceramic spray, such as Silex, CarPro Reload, or GTechnic C2V3. These sprays will actually apply an additional sacrificial layer of thin ceramic coating that should last 2-4 months.

For the majority of our clients that have ceramic coated vehicles, we offer our Maintenance Detail where we omit the clay bar treatment, since all they need is the Iron-X for the denomination step. We finish off the detail with a manufacturer recommended ceramic coating booster to maintain the performance of the ceramic coating.

Please give us a call if you have any questions regarding the Maintenance of your Ceramic Coated vehicles.

Antonio at Montano Auto Detail

925-895-1327, www.montanoautodetail.com