WHAT IS CERAMIC COATING?
A 5-year ceramic coating at Gleamworks is priced from $1,200 to $2,500 installed. Repainting one bumper, hood, or fender at a body shop here typically falls in the range of $600 to $1,500. Those figures do not make coating a repair for impact damage. They show why it makes sense to keep sound paint easier to wash before marks, water spots, and light wash swirls build up.
A ceramic coating leaves a thin, hard sacrificial layer over prepared paint. It resists light marring and helps grime release during washing, but it cannot stop a stone strike or replace washing. We inspect the finish first, then machine-polish swirl marks, spider-webbing, and oxidation in-house where the paint needs it. On the two-tone paint common on Maybach cars, that prep matters because dullness can make the colour break look uneven. Choose it to maintain clean, corrected paint; choose film first where chips are the main risk.