Ceramic Coating Aftercare
How to Maintain Your Ceramic Coating
1. Purchase 1-2 drying towels, plush towels, a bucket with a grit guard, rinseless soap, and about 3 gallons of distilled water.
2. Put 2-3 gallons of distilled water in your bucket along with equal parts (2-3) cap fulls of your Rinseless soap.
3. Throw in about 3-4 plush wash media into your bucket.
4. Avoid washing your car in direct sunlight, do it in the morning before the sun rises or in the evening when the sun’s going down.
5. Begin by rinsing the vehicle thoroughly. The goal is to rinse all big debris off the paint before we do our contact wash.
6. Squeeze out your soaked plush towel about 50%, fold it NEATLY into a square. This will effectively give you 8 clean sides of the towel to flip through as you wash the car.
7. Begin washing the vehicle, panel by panel, starting with half of the hood, half of the windshield, half of the roof, half of the rear windshield, half of the trunk lid, then do the other top side, working your way to the front fender, ALWAYS working from the TOP to the BOTTOM. Flip to a CLEAN side of the plush towel every panel. This is why we have multiple towels in the bucket.
8. Once you’re done with the contact wash, reactivate the surface by wetting it with a new plush soaked towel and then dry that area or you can spritz the surface with a spray bottle of the same rinseless solution in the bucket.
9. Do this around the entire vehicle copying the same patterns and directions you initially washed the vehicle until the vehicle is clean.
10. You can clean the rims and wheels the same exact way, but the towels you use for the wheels can never touch the paint again as they will be soiled and you run the risk of scratching the paint with them.
**Important:
• Clean your microfibers separately, never mix wheel microfibers with paint microfibers
• Use “Free & Clear” laundry detergent, wash on cold, dry on low
• NEVER take your car through a brush car wash, touchless car washes are fine for in-between contact washes.