DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PAINT PROTECTION FILM AND CERAMIC COATING

Many people often confuse the paint protection film and ceramic coating (ceramic coating). These two products offered in Costatech stores both have a protection purpose but their final goal is totally different. Here are a few points of the major differences between these two products:

Paint protection film (clear bra, ppf)

• Self-adhesive thermoplastic urethane (TPU) membrane with a topcoat comparable to that which covers your vehicle’s paintwork

• Cut mostly digitally, this film is made to completely or partially cover parts of your vehicle to protect them against rock impacts, sandblasting and scratches on the paint.

• TPU acts as a flexible agent that disperses the force of small impacts and in most cases prevents damage to the paint under the film.

• This is not a bulletproof shielding, however! Very high speed impacts from sharp stones may pierce through the film.

• Keep in mind that this film is applied to protect the paint. It’s the one that will take the blows and wear out over time.

Ceramic Coating

• A liquid coating which, when applied to the vehicle after a drying/curing period of up to 12 hours, will harden and create a hard, self-leveling layer on the surface of a vehicle.

• Its primary purpose is to make cleaning a vehicle much easier by filling in the microscopic roughness of the surfaces and thus limiting friction as much as possible. We call this effect hydrophobicity.

• For optimal application, the vehicle should be polished and decontaminated under normal circumstances to remove major unevenness and thus create a smooth surface.

• Typically, the ceramic coating will be hard enough to protect the vehicle’s clear coat against very slight scratches. (Ex .: washing rub marks)

• The ceramic coating will not protect against rock impacts but will make cleaning up insects, bird droppings and tree sap much easier.