How Does A Ceramic Coating Perform After One Year?

How’s this ceramic coating holding up after one year? This Volvo is daily driven — salt, sap, bugs, sun, all of it. Perfect test for how our coatings actually perform.

Before washing, I just rinse it down to read the beading. That’s our visual cue for whether the coating is still healthy. Up top, it’s repelling water great. But down on the lower doors and trunk, the beading drops off — that’s where all the road grime and salt gets kicked up.

Here’s what most people get wrong: the coating isn’t gone. It’s clogged. We hit it with CarPro Descale to break down the buildup, followed with our pH-neutral ceramic shampoo, and those spots came right back to life. Coating was 100% fine the whole time — it just needed some love.

This is why a ceramic maintenance program matters, with us or anyone. A coating isn’t apply-it-and-forget-it for six years. Stay in regular contact with your shop — quarterly, twice a year, once a year — because maintenance is what keeps it protecting your vehicle and easy to clean.

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