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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Let's be clear (no pun intended) in that ceramic is in no way, shape, or form a protective coating. The name is deceiving in that it implies it leaves some sort of hard coating. It doesn't. What it does do is penetrate the small spaces in the paint at a molecular level to make the surface super slick and shiny. The only "protection" it offers is that things don't stick as easy.
The PFF on the bumper will help with the very tiny bits that hit it but anything much bigger just tears it and chips the paint anyway. After a few thousand miles the PFF can actually look worse than the paint! And if worried about cost I wouldn't pay anybody to do that anymore than apply ceramic since it is just as "easy" to apply as ceramic and just as expensive.
With what it costs to do a bumper I will just get it resprayed every couple of years when it get's too nasty.
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There's a ton of BS out there with ceramic coating but it DOES offer a very thin layer of protection, if you've looked at stuff that has been coated with a microscope. I'm not at all saying it helps against rocks or impacts but it does form a layer over your paint to HELP prevent etching from bird shit etc.
Disagree about PPF looking worse than paint after a few thousand miles, maybe it was true years ago but the modern stuff is incredible. As long as you stick with the good stuff like 3m and xpel.
And i dont know where you get the idea that applying PPF is the same job in terms of difficulty as applying ceramic coating. If you can wax a car you can apply ceramic coating, can't say the same for PPF, that stuff is a pain in the ass. Ceramic coating is piss easy and there's a lot of pros out there sending their kids to college off this stuff (all the more power to them).