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Ceramic coating is a popular choice for car paint protection for several reasons. It provides long-lasting benefits and helps keep your vehicle looking great with less effort. Here’s why many people choose ceramic coating:

• Durability: Ceramic coatings create a durable, hydrophobic layer on your car’s paint that can last for several years when maintained properly. Unlike traditional wax or sealants, which wear off after a few months, ceramic coatings offer longer-lasting protection.
• Resistant to Elements: The coating acts as a shield against environmental contaminants like bird droppings, tree sap, water spots, and dirt, helping keep your paint in top condition for much longer.

• The coating creates a surface that repels water, making it harder for water, mud, and other contaminants to stick to the surface. This makes washing your car easier and helps keep the paint cleaner for longer.
• Water Beading: When the vehicle is exposed to water, it forms beads that roll off the surface rather than settling. This reduces the likelihood of water spots forming and makes drying faster.

• Ceramic coatings add a layer of protection to your car’s paint, making it harder for minor scratches, swirl marks, and abrasions to form. While it's not completely scratch-proof, it offers some resistance to everyday wear and tear.
• Self-Healing: Some advanced coatings have self-healing properties, where minor scratches can "disappear" when exposed to heat.

• Ceramic coatings protect your vehicle from harmful UV rays, which can cause oxidation, fading, and dullness over time. By creating a layer over the paint, it helps preserve the vehicle’s appearance and prevents premature aging.

• The coating enhances the paint’s depth and gives it a glossy, mirror-like finish. This makes your car look shiny and well-maintained, improving its overall aesthetics.
• It helps keep the car looking brand new for longer periods, even without frequent washing.

• Once applied, ceramic coatings make maintaining the car’s appearance much easier. Since dirt and water don’t cling to the surface as much, washing your car requires less effort.
• It reduces the frequency of waxing or sealing your car since the coating itself acts as a protective barrier.

• The coating protects against chemicals like bird droppings, tree sap, road salts, and pollutants. These contaminants can damage or discolor the paint, but a ceramic coating makes it easier to clean and prevents harm to the finish.

• Maintaining the paint’s condition with a ceramic coating can help preserve the vehicle’s resale value. A well-maintained exterior is an attractive feature when selling or trading in a car.

What is Paint Correction 

• Assessment:
  
• Inspect the vehicle’s paint to identify the level of imperfections (scratches, swirls, water spots, etc.).
• Determine if the paint can be corrected without removing too much clear coat.

• Washing and Decontaminating:
  
• Wash the car thoroughly to remove dirt, grime, and contaminants.
• Use a clay bar to remove bonded contaminants from the paint surface, like tree sap or industrial fallout.

• Machine Polishing:
  
• Use a dual-action or rotary polisher with polishing compounds to level the paint and remove imperfections.
• Polishing compounds come in various stages, starting from more abrasive ones to finer ones.

• The goal is to break down the abrasives, leveling the surface, and removing scratches while minimizing any hazing.

• Finishing:
  
• After the more aggressive correction, use a finer polish to refine the paint and enhance its gloss.
• This step brings out the full shine and depth in the paint.

• Protection:
  
• After the paint is corrected and perfected, apply a layer of paint protection like wax, sealant, or ceramic coating. This helps maintain the results and keeps the paint protected from future damage.

Benefits to Comprehensive Detailing Services?

Preserves Vehicle Value

Regular detailing is a crucial practice that goes beyond just cleanliness. It plays a vital role in preserving your vehicle's value by providing comprehensive protection to both the interior and exterior from the inevitable wear and tear caused by everyday use, as well as shielding it from potential environmental damage and contaminants.

Improved Safety

Properly cleaning and maintaining your headlights, windows, and mirrors can have a significant impact on visibility, ensuring a clear line of sight even in challenging driving conditions. Additionally, a clean and tidy interior not only enhances driving comfort but also promotes a sense of relaxation and tranquility, creating a more enjoyable driving experience overall. 

Health Benefits

By meticulously and comprehensively cleaning the interior of your vehicle, we not only remove allergens and bacteria but also ensure a fresher and healthier air quality for you and your passengers. Our thorough cleaning process targets every aspect of your interior, leaving no trace of dirt or dust behind.

Protect Paintwork

Our detailing process ensures that your vehicle receives the utmost care. In addition to a thorough cleaning, we apply a high-quality protective paint sealant to the exterior. This not only enhances the shine and finish of your vehicle but also acts as a shield against the unforgiving elements of the Australian climate.

Whether you’re outfitting a classic ride or updating a contemporary vehicle with vintage styling, there’s something elegant and refined about a set of whitewall tyres. 

Add some Kustom Tyre Lettering to really make your tyres stand out on the road! At Southside Kustoms, we offer a large range of sizes & colour options to fit your desired result.

Guard rolling is often needed to prevent damage to your wheels and maintain safety for you and your passengers. 

If you’ve recently decided to get bigger tyres or new rims for your car you will need to roll your guards, especially if your car has also been lowered.

It's important to avoid contact with your guards in order to prevent body and paint damage and to also prevent premature tyre damage. Guard rolling can be utilised to protect your car from this occurring and causing unnecessary harm to your vehicle. 

Brake calipers are a crucial component in your car’s braking system. Though they play an integral role, calipers mostly go unnoticed except by the most auto obsessed. A fresh coat of paint on your calipers will really provide a unique visual upgrade that can enhance the look of any custom wheel setup.

Over time, UV rays and environmental debris can cause your headlights to become hazy, greatly reducing their effectiveness and your safety. Restoring your headlights means better visibility, even light distribution and ultimately, a safer driving experience, particularly when the weather goes bad, and the nights get longer.

Save on replacement costs! New headlights can be expensive, restoring your headlights not only save you money, it's better for the environment, too! Simply restoring your headlights can help prolong the life of your lights for years to come.

A ceramic glass treatment can be applied to the outside of the vehicle’s windscreen, to provide an extremely hydrophobic layer to increase visibility during rain. The airflow over the vehicle at speeds over 50km/h causes the water beading to shoot of the windscreen allowing windscreen wipers to become much more effective and in certain situations not even required to be used. The other benefit is to minimise the possibility of water marks etching into the glass and make cleaning the glass easier to do. Three layers are applied to the windscreen to increase durability for up to 50,000km.