GTechniq Ceramic Coating

Ceramic Coating for cars is a liquid polymer that is applied by hand and chemically bonds with the vehicle’s factory paint on a molecular level, creating a layer of protection and increasing shine.

What does ceramic coating do? In short, Ceramic Coating adds additional protection to your car’s exterior and helps keep it looking like new with comparatively minimal maintenance. The coating achieves this result by making your vehicle more resilient and easier to clean. Here are the main benefits of ceramic coating for cars:
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See the table above for a breakdown of the characteristics of each of our paint protection products. Key to long-term gloss retention is swirled resistance – the main cause of degradation in gloss is the build-up of micro scratches made when your car gets washed.

As you will see from the table for the swirl-resistant products, C1 and Crystal Serum Light and Crystal Serum Ultra, we also recommend an over-coating of either C2 or EXO. The reason for this is that these coatings offer much better water and dirt repellency, as well as surface slickness. The combination of not having to wash your car so often or so aggressively, and the swirl resistance of the C1 or Serum, offers unparalleled surface protection.

A question we get asked a lot and there’s no right or wrong answer. In our opinion, it really depends on your car and how you plan to use it. If you are looking at using your car heavily and are looking to reduce stone chips then PPF is probably a good move. In many cases owners choose only to have leading edges – front bumper, part or whole of the bonnet, and wing mirrors – protected with PPF film, and then coat the rest of the car with Gtechniq to prevent premature dulling from wash swirls.

One thing to bear in mind is that PPF can be porous and therefore contaminants will stick and be difficult to remove, coating your car with HALO Flexible Film Coating will prevent your film from UV damage and make it much easier to look after.
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You can as the wax will not damage any of our coatings. But we recommend you don’t for a number of reasons. Firstly, if you have an extremely hydrophobic product such as EXO or C2, the wax will dull this effect. Also, all our coatings are designed to prevent contaminant bonding and are non-yellowing. Wax on the other hand is a soft finish into which contaminants easily bond and wax is not optically clear.

Our coatings have no adverse effects on the correct repaint procedure. Also, none of our coatings produce airborne silicones so will not cause any body shop contamination.

All our coatings are gas-permeable and therefore do not prevent paint from “out-gassing” solvents. But, we do recommend leaving at least 72 hours between painting and coating.

This is a common question. The perception is that if a surface is not repelling water any more then the protection must have failed. This is only partly right. One of the things to note here is that the surface of what you may think is a clean car may be slightly contaminated with road grime. Removing this with W5 Citrus All Purpose Cleaner will often return the hydrophobic function. But. It may be that the hydrophobic layer is no longer present. Please note that our guarantee does not cover this as whilst our hydrophobic products, C2 Liquid Crystal and EXO have class-leading durability, the maximum durability they have is 2 years. So even if the hydrophobic layer has stopped working, the base coating of either C1, Crystal Serum Light, or Crystal Serum Ultra will still be present as these coatings bond permanently with your paintwork. So this layer will still be there working to keep swirls and scratches to a minimum and helping to prevent loss of gloss through surface staining or oxidation.

So long as you follow the instructions then none of our coatings will ever peel or flake. But if you do not remove residue as instructed, the excess product can peel, flake, or turn into a white crystalline powder.

Whilst coatings such as C1 Crystal Lacquer, Crystal Serum Light, and Crystal Serum Ultra have class-leading abrasion resistance, there is a limit to the amount of resistance a 1-micron layer of hard ceramic can offer to hedges, automatic car washes or contaminants in wash mitts. Whilst, on their own, these products are phenomenally hard (C1 is 7h on the pencil hardness scale, CSL 9h, and CSU 10h), they will typically only add between 2 and 3h on the pencil hardness scale to the paintwork being protected.
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