I got my truck back today from the ceramic place. It looks absolutely beautiful. They threw in free front window tinting to match the rears. However they fucked that up and i have some bubbles so they already said they'll re do them. They're not that bad, but not acceptable.
First things first....This place does Lambos, RRs, Bentleys, Ferraris. When I picked it up he said dude you're truck has been getting a ton of attention here, every customer that's been out back asks about it. People see it sitting next to a ferrari and the're like "holy shit that truck is awesome!"
A few things I wish I knew before ceramic coating:
1) if you don't have a garage (like me...well I have a garage but this truck won't fit) the 2 week curing time is going to be a pain in the balls. morning dew needs to be wiped off so that it doesn't leave water spots to bake in the sun. So every morning for the next 2 weeks I'm going to have to get up early to go wipe it down with microfiber towels before logging into work.
2) Similarly pollen shouldn't be left to bake in the sun, so the truck needs to be wiped off daily (might try the leaf blower here)
I guess that's really it but basically the coating is very soft for a few weeks until it fully cures to it's full hardness, which makes it very delicate. Not having a garage is going to make it challenging, or at least a bit time consuming, to protect it during this time. Hard to not let anything bake in the sun when you live in SoCal and your driveway faces due west and gets full afternoon sun.
It's too bad they don't have a curing oven or something to speed up the process.
You're not really supposed to let it get wet, but again I have no garage and it's going to rain in a few days. So I'm going to have to be religiously anal about going out to dry it as soon as the rain stops so water spots don't bake in.
There was a black mustang in there that they coated last month and the owner didn't follow any of the curing guidelines, let it get soaked by the sprinklers every night and he just let all the water spots bake in the sun so they had to completely re do it.
I'll post some pics tomorrow. It looks like a mirror. so f'ing shiny.