Regular Maintenance Services for Vehicles with IGL Ceramic Coatings

Two-Bucket Hand Wash of Paintwork

The painted surfaces of your vehicle’s exterior are predominantly what our IGL Ceramic Coating packages are known to protect. We treat your vehicle’s finish to a cleansing and SAFE two-bucket hand wash during our ceramic coating maintenance efforts. This is accomplished by having two separate buckets - One with wash water and one with rinse water and a grit guard, all established to prevent cross-contamination that may otherwise leave behind swirl marks and scratches.

Hand Washing Your Wheels

A specialty ceramic coating formula applied to your wheels and rims is certainly durable enough to be driven on while diverting road wash, slush during winter, and other environmental or human-made messes from these delicate and integral surfaces. However, that means they must be decontaminated even MORE meticulously to maintain those characteristics! Our ceramic coating maintenance package allows us to get in deep to fully clean any and every particle of residual mess from your coated wheels.

Cleaning Your Door Jambs

While being coated in our IGL formulas, your door jambs see quite a bit of dirt, dust, and other contaminants as your shoes brush past them. Breezing over these areas when having your car, truck, or SUV decontaminated not only causes those contaminants to sit stagnant, but they can also cause trouble for your IGL Ceramic Coating warranty. When we say we decontaminate all coated surfaces with our maintenance detailing package, we MEAN it. This ESPECIALLY includes your door jambs!

Blow Dry and Hand Dry to Finish

Drying following auto detailing might seem like a rather simple effort in finish work; however, it is vital it is done appropriately with the correct type of microfiber towel. Ceramic coatings can be swirled if not washed and dried properly, and here at Desire Detail, we offer both blow drying and hand drying techniques to rid your vehicle’s entire surface area of water. This eliminates the potential of any streaking that wasn’t prevented by your ceramic coating’s hydrophobicity. Following this, we will add a topper to increase gloss and ceramic coating integrity, especially if we notice a shift in surface slickness.

Myth 1: Ceramic coatings take care of themselves

This is generally true of our highly hydrophobic ceramic coating packages here at Desire Detail; however, NOTHING in the world is perfect. Ceramic coatings need to be maintained throughout their life, as there are just as many contaminants that stick longer to the surface of your ceramic coating, requiring the delicate touch of a pro detailer. The benefit of our IGL Ceramic Coating packages is that their hydrophobicity will make your surface much easier to decontaminate in this instance, speeding up the process and leaving you with an exceptional shine!

Myth 2: A cheap public car wash will do the trick

Public car washes in Silverton, Oregon, no matter how quick and affordable, are most definitely NOT the answer to ceramic coating maintenance! This is for a number of reasons. First and foremost, soft touch and even touchless public car washes can inflict defects and discrepancies in your ceramic coating, leaving you with an even MORE lackluster result than before entering. Secondly, maintenance detailing efforts at Desire Detail will ACTUALLY get your ceramic coating clean, removing all kinds of residual messes with precision.

Myth 3: If a ceramic coating needs detailing, it isn’t worth the investment

We disagree wholeheartedly about this myth, as just because a ceramic coating needs maintenance does not mean it is useless or somehow not worth the investment. Ceramic coatings are sacrificial layers standing between your original paintwork and the brutality of the environment here in the Pacific Northwest, and in turn, their nanoparticle-infused hydrophobicity deters liquid and solid environmental contaminants from leaving a mark on your finish. Likewise, when kept maintained by our maintenance detailing package, they continue to prevent fading from UV rays from the sun.