Are you Wasting Your Money? Paint Protection vs Ceramic Coating??

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Definitely consider hitting that subscribe button and be sure to hit that thumbs up button if you enjoy today's vlog and we're kicking off this episode right here and in you and Stewart's garage. I'm going to see some different images that will appear here behind me and I'm actually going to take myself and shrink here to the right corner of the screen,

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right corner, so that you guys can see these amazing garages and Corvettes like We're talking, Stewart, I want thank you for sitting in

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photo. A beautiful garage. You'll see a lot of different Corvettes he has.

It has an elevator. It's just that everything looks really great here. I love seeing the different photos. submit your garages if you would like to submit a photo of your Corvette or your garage you can submit it to Corvettes nine one Eight garage talk and gmail.com. It's in the description below. You can send it there, but we will do it today. We're going to jump right into our conversation which is going to be about PPF or

paint

protection

film or

ceramic

coating

s and there's a third thing that I really want to include and that's the old wax you know just going out with your car and grabbing if it's rotary or you're going to do it by hand, you know, put on, you know, some nouveau carbon wax and you know, maybe polish it, whatever you want to do, but I know every time you buy these cars or you buy any sports car you know as an enthusiast like someone who understand, you know you are very excited to have it and the first thing you want to do is protect your investment, you want it, protect your car. and all those things we can do it in different ways some people like

paint

protection

film some people don't some people like

ceramic

coating

s some people don't like putting both on their cars you know a lot of that will actually come As far as to budget, it's really going to come down to what you prefer and what you like, and we'll go a little deeper into each of these and explain why you like some things over others, and again that means these are strictly my opinions.

You have your own opinion about how you like your car, but maybe you've never owned a Corvette or maybe you just had a fall. You bought a new one. I don't know what a Dodge Hellcat was or maybe it's a maybe you. I just bought a new g2 350 and you want to put some kind of protection on the car and you're watching videos, you want to know Kali, you know? I want to spend $3000 or dust, I want to spend $1000. I know what I have to do, the first thing I have to do is whether your car is new or not.

If you just ordered a new car, then you know that when you get home it shouldn't have many scratches. and you know it's going to be huge if you want to do PPF or you want to do a ceramic coating because it's not going to require just a bunch of two step processes or you know a lot of time. being treated and paint corrected now, if you are going to take it to someone, there are many different prices now. I can't go over all the scenarios, but I will. I contacted a local company here where I live and asked them. them, okay, if I wanted to do this, how much would it cost?

What if I want to do that? How much would it cost me personally now? If you have been following my channel. You know I'm a ceramic coating guy and both. zr1 and my wife's latest grant sport. I did the G in Metro, the G in Mo's q2a system, where you can, you know, put, you know, I corrected the pain, I didn't really have to do any kind of major corrections, but I went through it and polished it and then, you know , a full strip of the car took out all the polymers and then from there you started applying that, if you want to watch those videos I'll link them below just because you know you don't.

I want to go over the entire process of putting rhythmic ceramic on a car in this video, but what I do want to go over is what you can expect as far as cost and you know, the first, let's say the very popular one. is that people put paint protection film on their car, you know if it's Sun tech, if it's X pal, if it's 3m, there's a lot of different ones that are starting to come out, you know, you hear a lot of this personal feeling where you know if you're driving the car and a rock hits the front end and you know it creates a little bit of maybe a tear in the film or something like that, you can pour hot water on it and it goes away fine.

Yes and no, you know, some people will swear I've been. I've been around a lot of Corvettes and a lot of Corvettes that have everything you can imagine if you really want to get there. you want to start putting your hand on all those kinds of things, you know a lot of it will depend on where you live, if you live in an area that has a lot of bumps in the road, you know, maybe like Arizona, you know? there's just a place where there's sand everywhere, you know it can be a PPF depending on the type of person you are, you might be a little crazy from the point of view that you're going to feel like yeah, there's some healing that takes place. carries out, but you know when you hit a rock or you hit something that's going 85 and 95 100 miles per hour.

I don't care what you have on the front of that car, it may leave some damage, it will leave at least a mark somewhere over there, but you know again, how important this push is, guys, is: Hey, you want to put a protective film to this, you want to protect your car, you want to preserve it, you want to take care of the paint, you know, and it might just be me and that. maybe this is probably just my opinion I love Corvettes. I've had three of them and I'm about to have four and you might be a guy when you buy, you know, we all think we'll have this car forever.

I said. I thought the same thing when I got my zr1 I thought the same thing when I got my 0-6 and I thought, I mean, I'm going to have these for a while, you know, I'm going to stack these Corvettes and you know sometimes life happens and things change in life and maybe you are starting a new business maybe something happens within your family and you have to sell these cars. I want you to understand whatever you put in them, you're not going to get it back. another person is going to enjoy that PPF another person is going to enjoy that ceramic coating that you are doing because of the length of time that you are going to have the car, it is what you want to put on it now in terms of costs if you are going to put PPF on a car, if it is doing the entire front and I would recommend you do it, know that it's not just your splitter in the front but the entire hood in the front of the car, don't do half the hood, don't just do it yourself.

I can see it people are going to say well you know you don't see it much you won't see it because it gets dirt you can see the line in the sun just don't do it it looks horrible all the time hood if you're going to do the car if you're one of those people and you've only done half of it, then it's okay for you. If it's me, I'll take it off and put the whole hood on. You also want to do your side mirrors, those are high impact areas. I would also highly recommend doing the hindquarters.

You get a lot of rocks and things flying out of the front tires and hitting the side of the door. I would do it. probably do the side or the rear to do that on a PPF and expand expel at least here locally it was going to cost about two seven hundred dollars to do that to do a complete Corvette you're looking at close to probably five thousand dollars and that's usually it will include paint protection or paint correction, if it needs some repaint it depends on the age of this car, if you are buying a Corvette that is three years old and someone didn't take care of it it may need some serious painting.

Work before you can, even you know, put something like this on top of it, so the price can vary depending on what your painting is like and how you want them to go directly, that's what you're doing, you're literally putting on a film. on your paint, so whatever is on your paint will still be there, so that's what you're looking at as far as the PPF goes, you know, it's just because my eyes are always trained when I see a Corvette or a sports car I start to look at what's on it and I can see PPF it has lines even some of the guys that will fit it know there will be some areas they won't be able to fit it and it's something I look at and to me the car just doesn't It looks so wet, not what I like now, again, this is not what you like, so don't take it personally if you're a big PPF guy and you're like Chuck, they're people, you have the only way moving on, hey, okay, okay if that's what you like to do, but I just don't like the way it looks.

I like to look when I look at something that is seen. like glass and now one thing you can do with a paint protection film is put a ceramic coating on top of it and you can't do the other way around, you can't have a ceramic coating and then decide you want to put PPF on it. On top of that, this isn't going to stick very well, but that's what a ceramic coating is for, it doesn't like things touching it. I spoke to the gentleman and heard my local place said no it goes there. a step if you want to do a ceramic coating that needs to be done after putting on PPF if you want to go that route now.

I've seen a couple guys or cars they've owned and I don't know if they did it. I don't see a big difference, yes you are putting a ceramic coating on top of the plastic. I mean, to me, it just didn't look how I would like my car, so yeah, you can do that if you want to add a little. shine, it will help you if you want to put a ceramic coating on top, but again you are spending this

money

that you will never get back because when the time comes, if you want to love again, you don't know what will happen in life. it changes all the time and you go sell that car and you put $8,000 on it through a ceramic coating and PPF or $7,000 and that's done, I mean you just give it to the next person and again, these are things that you're going to have to do. keep it too if you're going to keep the car long term because it's going to get some scratches, you're going to get some stuff inside that you're going to need to remove and really, you know, have them reapply new PPF.

The same goes for ceramic coating, now getting into the ceramic coating side, how much is it going to cost now? What I like about ceramic coating is that this is something you can do, pay PPF to a professional, don't try to do it. yourself, it's just that I've seen the process, you've probably seen the process, it just seems too difficult now when it comes to ceramic coating you can do all of this yourself and depending on the tools you have you know if you have a rotary GIVES. You know you have some kind of good compound, you know if it's a Jets car or if it's a perfect finish.

Sonax, you have some kind of really good compound that you can put in that not only cuts a little but also finishes. below you could really make your car look really nice and shiny, strip it with a Jeon prep, something like that to get everything off and then put your own ceramic coating on it, it's very easy, it's a weekend thing and if you've done it, Let us know in the comments if you have installed your own ceramic coating. I know a lot of people did it when I did my last two Corvettes, a lot of people bought it and did it themselves now on the new zero six. that is going to be ordered or that will be ordered, will be built in the week of the 21st, so, relatively soon, I will publish a new product that I obtained from esotericism.

Todd is a very good friend of mine. It's possible that you guys know who he is. He has a YouTube channel, but he's very into the details and he has a new product called It's not a new product, but they've revamped it and it's called Kamikaze is ium and that product is unique. -Product by the way when I use the Jeon that I had to put on, you know, I had to correct the car to remove some scratches, then I had to put on two coats of their Jeon Mo and then I had to put on a skin of what was called skin, like this that three times now, when you go over this whole car with a little brick and look at it removing it and you do it three times, that's a lot of work that goes through your back.

I don't know how some of you that this is what you do for a living, there's no way in the world I can do it for a living, so now it's a three step process. new product and you have to get rid of that ceramic coating that you have been without for two years, then you have a primer that you can apply from time to time to help maintain the shine of the hydrophobic piece and this. The new one I'm going to use with the Kamikaze is iam. It's a step. You place the paint where you want it, you apply it and you get that deep shine you will get as long as you know the hydrophobic part and this will last about three years, so the coatings are advancing a lot and are becoming just as popular among kids who are They put their The cars as a protective film now it's again what I liked is that I didn't see a lot and I had it on the Black Mamba.

I had it on my last two cars and all three of my Corvettes had ceramic. coatings on it and it looks totally different, I mean, when you walkinto the black, it's a deeper, richer black, you walk into a red torch, the red is just a deeper red, you walk into, you know, even this, even when I put it on the Ceramic Matrix Gray, it was just a sheen and it just takes it to another level and you know, we all like our cars, we look good, we make them look cool, we take them whether it's to a car show or a meeting.

I want everything to look good. What I found was that it was very simple to care for. All you have to do is go through a bead maker. Put some Beat Maker on it. Clean it up. He thinks it's impeccable. You can even. use Adams soap, put a couple of drops of Adams soap in a bottle, spray it on the car and you know, you just wipe it off and therefore you don't know that you have to spin every time you want to look good. You don't need to have it fully detailed, it's very quick, you're done with it and the painting looks great again.

If you're one of those guys who loves having your car, you won't want to do any of that. things you don't want to protect paint protection field you are not interested in doing any type of ceramic coating you like to go out maybe every six months take the weekend throw Corvettes nine 180 alone on the TV put on some songs and listen Out there, just do it and, of course, that's what you should do. There is no right or wrong way to take care of your car because at the end of the day it is your car, but I can tell you this after owning three Corvettes and selling them.

Whatever you're going to do to them, whether you put a new exhaust on it, you put a ceramic coating on it, whether you put PPF on it or not, whether or not you change all the markers and you're putting the other one on, unless If you plan to remove everything and put everything back in stock, that will mean absolutely nothing to a dealer, it won't mean a little more to a privateer. Buyer, those are really shaky opportunities and there are some things you have to be careful with, but again, I always tell people to do whatever you want with your car, whatever makes you happy, do it because ultimately , you are the one driving it and, hopefully, you are having a good time in the car now.

Another thing I'm going to do in the future is post some of the questions that you guys have that I don't know the answers to here in the community, so if I have a question, maybe something has been going wrong. You know your Corvette. You have searched for forms. You have reviewed. You know you called your dealership and you really can't seem to find the answer to what your problem is. Sure shoot me an email and we'll start making a couple of those. Each of the videos will simply pose the question to all Corvettes, not one family, and we'll see if there's anyone out there who may have been through the same situation. like you guys and I can help you with that, so I think that would be a nice little segment to add to the garage talk as well, but guys, until I see you guys in the next video, I hope each and every one of you has a blessed rest of Google