CERAMIC COATING
Nine-H Protection.On Corrected Paint Only.
Professional-grade ceramic coating that holds for five years or more, applied only after the paint underneath has been corrected. A coating is optically clear. Whatever is under it is what you'll be looking at.
Free estimates. Correction is quoted separately, and honestly.
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WE DON'T COAT UNCORRECTED PAINT. THE DEFECTS WOULD BE SEALED IN FOR FIVE YEARS.
THE PROBLEM
Protection ThatNever Lasts.
Road salt from November to March. UV through the summer. Water spots that etch if they sit long enough. Most owners answer that with a wax every few months and a hope that it holds, and it doesn't, because a wax was never built to. By spring the protection is gone, the finish has gone flat, and the paint has spent a winter unprotected without anyone noticing.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Every Step,Written Down.
A coating booking is not just the coating. This is the full sequence the vehicle goes through before anything is applied.
Assessment
- Paint depth readings taken across every panel
- Panel-by-panel defect map under dedicated inspection lighting
- Written report of what correction the vehicle needs before coating
Preparation
- Full decontamination wash
- Iron and fallout removal
- Clay treatment across all painted surfaces
- Tape-off of trim, rubber and adjacent surfaces
Correction
- Test panel worked and measured before any full-vehicle correction
- Multi-stage machine correction to the level the paint will safely take
- IPA wipedown to verify the correction rather than conceal it
Coating
- Coating applied in controlled conditions, panel by panel
- Levelled and inspected under lighting as each panel is completed
- Full cure before the vehicle moves
- Final inspection under dedicated lighting
- Written aftercare guidance for the first week and beyond
Correction quoted before coating. Always.
OUR PROCESS
The Same Four Stages.Every Time.
Every vehicle moves through the same four stages, in the same order. Only stage three changes with the service.
01
Inspection & Preparation
Paint depth, defect mapping, and a full decontamination wash. We find what the last shop covered up.
02
Deep Clean & Correction
Multi-stage machine correction removes swirls, scratches, and oxidation. Interiors are stripped, extracted, and conditioned.
03
Protection & Finishing
The coating is applied panel by panel in controlled conditions, levelled as it goes, and left to cure fully before the vehicle moves. It goes onto corrected paint only, never over defects.
04
Final Quality Check
Inspected under dedicated lighting before your keys come back. If it isn't right, it doesn't leave.
The stage that changes is stage three. Everything else is fixed.
PREVIEW
What It Looks LikeUnderneath.
A coating locks in whatever it goes over. This is the difference between coating corrected paint and coating paint that wasn't.
Drag to compare. Representative examples of the finish this service produces.
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THE HONEST ANSWER
Is It Worth It,And Will It Last?
It's worth it if you're keeping the car. A coating is a five-year decision, and the arithmetic only works over five years. On a lease you're handing back in eighteen months, it doesn't, and we'll say so.
It lasts if two things are true: the paint was corrected first, and the car gets washed properly afterward. Coatings don't fail on their own. They fail because they went over defects, or because the car went through an automatic brush wash every fortnight.
The part most shops leave out is that correction is the expensive half. A coating quoted without correction is a coating being sold over defects, and the number looks better because the work isn't in it.
We'll quote you for correction before we quote you for a coating. If that changes your mind, it should have.
QUESTIONS
The Things PeopleActually Ask.
Five years or more on paint that was corrected first and is washed properly. It doesn't wear evenly like a wax, it degrades where it's abused, which is usually the front bumper and the lower doors. At inspection we'll tell you what to expect for your vehicle and where it lives.
Yes, and washing it correctly matters more than it did before. A coating makes dirt release easily and stops contaminants bonding to the paint; it does not stop them landing on it. Two-bucket hand washing with a pH-neutral soap, and no automatic brush washes.
Yes, and we won't skip it. A coating is optically clear and stays on for years, so whatever the paint looks like underneath is what you will be looking at. Coating over swirls means living with those swirls until the coating comes off.
It's a hardness rating for the cured coating surface. It means the coating resists the light marring that a wash mitt or a careless hand causes. It does not mean the paint is scratch-proof, nothing makes a car scratch-proof, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling.
Yes. Wheels take a coating formulated for brake heat, glass takes a hydrophobic treatment that noticeably improves wet-weather visibility, and plastic trim takes a coating that slows the grey fade. These are quoted alongside the paint coating at inspection.
A deep scratch goes through the coating into the paint, and that panel needs correcting and recoating, we can do a single panel rather than the whole car. Lighter marring on the coating surface can usually be polished out without removing the coating.
The vehicle stays with us until the coating has cured enough to handle safely: [PLACEHOLDER: ceramic hold time]. The chemical cure continues for several days after that, and we'll ask you to keep it out of rain where you reasonably can and skip washing it entirely during that window.
WHAT PAIRS WITH IT
What ThisGoes With.
GET STARTED
Ready To ProtectThe Paint?
Tell us about the vehicle and its condition. We'll come back with what correction it needs first, and a real number for both.
Free estimates. Correction quoted separately and honestly. Bolingbrook · Naperville · Chicago & suburbs.