Is Your Ceramic Coating Dead or Alive? | 5 Year Old Ceramic Pro 9h Test 

Awesome Vid. I now own a 2022 TRD OffRoad Toy. Taco. I have a ceramic pro gold package with lifetime guarantee "IF" I take my vehicle for its yearly inspection to a Ceramic Pro shop. However, the lifetime guarantees only works if you make the yearly visits to the Cermaic Pro shop for its yearly inspection. The yearly inspection includes the inspection of the ceramic coat and if the coat is not up to standard the shop will re-apply the coat. Shortly after the shop will add the ceramic coat maintenance compounds to rejuvenate the product until the next year. The price of the yearly inspection is anywhere from $500.00 to $600.00 depending on the size of the vehicle. I have been a long-time fanatic of Cermaic Pro because hands down it's the best in the industry this of course is my own bias opinion. I am a JDM enthusiast, and I used to own a 2017 Nissan Sentra Nismo with modification. I loved my car and the work I had done on the car. Unfortunately, in 2021 my vehicle took a bad spill during a bad rainy night in the California mountains, and I could not salvage my vehicle. Unfortunately, due to the airbags deploying after my vehicle kissing the rails the insurance deemed it a totaled loss. I tried to have them inspect the vehicle a 2nd and 3rd time but unfortunately the final word was a complete loss. I had no choice but to sign the pink slip off to my insurance company. However due to the Ceramic Pro and Ceramic Pro PPF with Cermaic Pro documentation the insurance company considered my car to be in pristine condition and valued my loss at a higher price. I took the extra funds and dumped it in a savings account and plan to use the return it to buy a new Nissan Z NISMO. I work 6 days a week and been doing so for the past 20 years. I don't wash my cars often because I work 10 to 12 hours days. Currently my truck has not been washed for over 6 months. I have washed my truck 6 months after I purchased it. Total washes on my truck are x1 since 2022. The abuse my truck takes is hard given that California is hell on cars and paint jobs. I have x2 employers. One employer is in LA county in the SFV, and my second employer is in California City. My truck well it's a truck lol no fun their other than well it's a truck lol. Life in Cali is very expensive and having a Ceramic system on a car becomes more of an investment than a luxury at least in my opinion. I abuse my truck like I did my Nismo but at the end I got almost half of the value of my car back plus I didn't have to worry about washing my car or worry where I park. In LA county SFV you deal with morning dew, light summer June glooms and tree sap everywhere parking is available. California City is all desert I park outside a plane hangar no shade just 100-to-118-degree heat for 8 to 10 hours every Saturday. And driving through the desert well let's just say when you arrive to work your car hood, windshield and bumpers are covered with every single insect known on earth it's a disgusting site to see. I will be washing my truck in October of 2023. I believe that my ceramic system works for me. Pro Ceramic coating is defiantly not cheap, and I will always share this with collogues. It really depends on the individual's lifestyle and if they are car enthusiast and want to save money on a car investment. At the end it's all about enjoying the car that you love driving 7 days a week while knowing that your paint value is protected no matter the harshest weather conditions while saving money and feeling assured that the insurance company will return at least 50% more value if the unfortunate occurs.

Included in the wash (with Carpro Lift) was a light claying of the paint to see if I could revive whatever was left, if anything, of the coating. Unfortunately, I saw little to no improvement.

Thanks for the video. I've seen instances where a iron decon and light clay can "unclog" the surface from contamination which is prohibiting the beading water behavior. Any reason why you didn't try that considering the Tesla paint was neglected? I know the coating was well into the end of its designed life but perhaps a little revival could have offered the customer a little more time before needing a new full blown coating.

That coating is not dead. You can see it on the front fender. Give the vehicle a thorough wash with a sour shampoo. If necessary apply waterspot remover and wash it again with a microfiber washmit. The pores of the coating need to be unclogged. That’s all. Ceramic Pro 9H belongs to the most durable coatings on the market.