DaveA
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A question for those who ceramic coat their cars…
I have a ceramic coating on my car and I am having an issue with bird droppings and fly platter etching into the surface…
Anybody else notice this with theirs…?
It seems worst on the plastic panels and does not seem to affect the metal panels. I assume it’s something to do with thermal expansion and how the heat interacts with the deposits…
I appreciate that ceramic coatings are not immune to such things, and the idea is it is the coating taking the battering not the paint lacquer… But, even so, it seems to em to be occurring a little too readily…
In the past, when I was waxing, I would just polish out the etching and re-wax, but with the coating, you cannot really do that without damaging the ceramic coating… The solution is to machine polish out and then re-coat with the ceramic…
I have a ceramic coating on my car and I am having an issue with bird droppings and fly platter etching into the surface…
Anybody else notice this with theirs…?
It seems worst on the plastic panels and does not seem to affect the metal panels. I assume it’s something to do with thermal expansion and how the heat interacts with the deposits…
I appreciate that ceramic coatings are not immune to such things, and the idea is it is the coating taking the battering not the paint lacquer… But, even so, it seems to em to be occurring a little too readily…
In the past, when I was waxing, I would just polish out the etching and re-wax, but with the coating, you cannot really do that without damaging the ceramic coating… The solution is to machine polish out and then re-coat with the ceramic…