Wicked Auto Films Ceramic Coating
Ceramic Coating in Lowell, AR
A hard, slick layer bonded to the paint. It holds gloss for years instead of months and it makes the car dramatically easier to keep clean.
- Product Nasiol Coatings — five year
- Paint correction Extra, quoted separately
- Warranty Nasiol's own terms
- Typical turnaround 2 Days
Wax sits on the paint and washes off. A coating chemically bonds to it and stays, which is the whole difference: you are not re-doing this every three months.
What you notice day to day is water and dirt refusing to hold on. Rain sheets off, bugs and bird mess come off with far less scrubbing, and the car looks washed for longer between washes.
What it does not do — read this one
- A coating is NOT chip protection. It is microns thick. It will not stop a stone off the highway and it will not stop a scratch from a careless wash. If that is what you are after, you want paint protection film, and the two are confused more often than anything else in this trade.
- It does not make the car scratch-proof. It resists light swirls from washing better than bare paint does. That is the claim, and it is the honest one.
- It does not fix the paint it goes onto. A coating locks in whatever is under it — including swirls and dullness — which is why paint correction is the conversation that has to happen first.
What it actually gets you
It washes in half the time
Dirt sits on top of the coating instead of keying into the clear coat. Most of it comes off with the hose before a mitt touches the car.
The gloss stays
A wax is gone in weeks. This is rated for five years and holds its shine through them.
Bird mess and sap stop etching
They still need cleaning off — but they are sitting on the coating, not burning into the paint while you are at work.
It is not armour
Read the block above. If you want chip protection you want film, and we would rather tell you that than take the money.
How long it lasts
Coatings are sold by durability. The longer-lasting products are harder to apply and need the paint underneath to be in better shape, which is why the tier and the prep are the same conversation.
Ceramic coating
$800–$1,000
Paint correction
$500–$800
Living with it
-
Before collection
The car stays with us about two days while the coating cures. It leaves when it is ready, not when the clock says so.
-
First wash
Leave it a week. Rain is fine; what you want to avoid in the first days is detergent and anything abrasive.
-
Washing
Two buckets and a soft mitt, or a touchless wash. The coating is doing the hard work; what ruins one is a brush wash putting swirls straight through it.
What happens to your car
- Before anything goes on — the surface is stripped and decontaminated. Skipping this is why cheap work lifts at the edges in two summers.
- Cut to your vehicle — patterned and trimmed to the panel or the glass, not to a rough shape.
- Laid and worked — squeegeed, heat-shrunk where the shape needs it.
- Out — typical turnaround 2 days. Booked in advance for anything longer than a day.
Warranty: Nasiol's own terms. Ask for the paperwork before you pay anyone, anywhere.
The other three films
Paint Protection Film
Clear urethane over the panels that take the damage. The film gets chipped instead of the paint, and the paint underneath stays factory.
Vinyl Wraps
A new colour without touching the paint, or one panel done in something the factory never offered. It comes off again, and the paint under it comes out the same as it went in.
Window Tint
Cuts the heat, kills the glare, and stops the interior fading. Cut to the Arkansas legal limit, because the alternative is a fine and stripping it off at your own cost.