dark cloud
Active Member
I'm a DIY'er. I did the whole process; correct the paint with 3 stages of cutting polishing, and applied 2 coats of CQuartz ceramic. I know why they charge so much; it takes hours and hours and hours. Looks fantastic but with the winters we get here, and the car sand blasted with salts it doesn't last as long as they claim, so it is basically an annual event. That is with using the reload as well. The finest quality plain old wax barely lasts 1 month though, and who wants to do that every month, so I say it is worthwhile.
Absolutely doing the wheels insides with ceramic coating makes cleaning them SO much easier. I did my summer set but didn't do the winter set I have on the car now, and even the days above zero degrees when I can actually use a hose to spray the wheels through the tiny slots in the slipstream alloys doesn't release the many ounces of caked-on clay based sand/salty grit residue. One needs to agitate with a brush to get it all. It is typical to have the wheels so far off of balance from the deposits that the wheel shakes on the highway several times in winters.
Just ordered the CQuartz plastic and wheel formula and will see how that works compared to the "regular" ceramic coating.
Absolutely doing the wheels insides with ceramic coating makes cleaning them SO much easier. I did my summer set but didn't do the winter set I have on the car now, and even the days above zero degrees when I can actually use a hose to spray the wheels through the tiny slots in the slipstream alloys doesn't release the many ounces of caked-on clay based sand/salty grit residue. One needs to agitate with a brush to get it all. It is typical to have the wheels so far off of balance from the deposits that the wheel shakes on the highway several times in winters.
Just ordered the CQuartz plastic and wheel formula and will see how that works compared to the "regular" ceramic coating.