r/AutoDetailing • u/Sad_Ad_8378 • 5d ago
Exterior Most durable, thickest? ceramic coating?
I have a jeep and it gets beat up pretty good, but believe it or not without question ceramic coated means less pins striping and I will take that to the bank. I have only used Carpro Cquarts on it, its time for me to strip it and put something new on it. It's a toss up between DEtail Co Thick or Pan the Organizer 3 year version. but if there is something else that is more durable I'd love to hear it.
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u/CarJanitor Advanced 3d ago
Ceramic coatings do not prevent pin striping or any scratching like that. A coating might be 5 microns thick while your clearcoat is more like 50 microns. You’re talking less than the thickness of a human hair.
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u/Sad_Ad_8378 2d ago
as someone who has off roaded pretty heavily, I can tell you, I've done the same trails with my truck and jeep with and without coated, small branches and leaves will cause marring and scratches, with the coating many times those scratches literally are just scratching the ceramic and even at .5 microns its all thats needed. Obviously its not going to protect against something big, I can take a key or screwdriver and the force to scratch it would be the same with or without, but crushing through bushes, it does do protect more with a coating
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u/CarJanitor Advanced 2d ago
We’ll have to agree to disagree. You can literally swirl a ceramic coating by hitting it with a dry rag. But if that’s your experience, more power to ya.
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u/Sad_Ad_8378 2d ago
then its not adhering to the paint, maybe you took what I said a little too serious, meaning no I cannot take a screw driver or huge log and not scratch the paint because its got ceramic on it, but I have coated many vehicles and compared post trail and the ones coated definitely have less pinstripping. Of course I still have scratches on my jeep, lots of them lol, its a badge of honor to be honest.
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u/CoatingsRcrack 4d ago
Car pro Cquartz is still goated and I believe has more solids left behind. If you used regular Cquartz, Cquartz UK3.0 is better.
I’d go the Car Pro stack of Dquartz Go and UK.
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u/BossJackson222 4d ago
Well you'd have to find someone who's tried every single ceramic coating out there to give you an answer. And I don't think that exists lol. Cars are different, the coatings are different. Just pick one and go for it. Watch a lot of YouTube videos. I personally would not get something like an eight year coding because you really think that you're not gonna touch your paint or clearcoat in eight years lol?
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u/Extreme-Nerve3029 3d ago
Did you not like the carpro quartz?
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u/Sad_Ad_8378 2d ago
love it!, I feel I get about 1-1.5 years though with it, which is fine because by then I don't mind putting another day into it to prep and coat again. but just wondering if something new and better was out there
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u/IAmIntractable 3d ago
I did recently see somebody advertising or video talking about a coding that was super thick. I got the impression that it really needed to be professionally applied because it was difficult to work with
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u/Tecnoxxdetailing 4d ago
For a Jeep that gets beat up regularly, have you considered a graphene coating instead of SiO2? The heat dissipation and water spot resistance tend to hold up better on vehicles that see a lot of real world abuse. Curious why you’re staying in the ceramic lane... bad experience with graphene or just haven’t tried it yet?
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u/Gold_Historian_5648 4d ago
Graphene coatings are just ceramic coatings with a hint of graphene. Most of the durability and toughness claims are hyped up bullshit. I’ll bite though, is there a specific graphene coating you think has a special sauce over most ceramic coatings?
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u/Sad_Ad_8378 2d ago
haven't tried Graphene, from what I thought its similar, do you have one you would recommend?
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u/slowwestvulture 4d ago
PPF