Ceramic Coating in Hollywood, FL

Ceramic Coating for Hollywood drivers, installed in Davie

Ceramic Pro Hollywood is us. The bay is at 5150 SW 48th Way, Unit 614 in Davie, ten minutes north of Hollywood Boulevard on State Road 7, next to the Hard Rock. From Emerald Hills take Sheridan Street west and turn north on 441; from Hollywood Beach or Hallandale, Griffin Road straight across. Hollywood has always been the city we see most, and it is still the one where a coating does the most work.

A ceramic coating bonds to the clear coat and makes it hard, glossy and slick. In Hollywood that means salt, sand, bird droppings and water spots sit on the coating and rinse off instead of bonding to the paint and needing to be polished off. The gloss is what you see at pickup; the easier washes are what you keep noticing every weekend for years.

Ceramic Pro packages start at $499. Bronze is warrantied for 2 years, Silver for 5, Gold and Ultimate ION for the lifetime of the car, all applied over corrected paint, registered with Ceramic Pro and reported to CARFAX. Financing is 0% for 12 months, and the inspection that tells you what your paint needs first is free.

The cheapest PPF job is the one you never have to redo

We are not the lowest quote in South Florida, and that is on purpose. The price for your car is published by size before anything starts and there is no fee added at pickup. Every film job includes the wash, the clay and iron decontamination, light paint correction where the paint needs it, wrapped edges wherever the panel allows, and a car that stays indoors from drop-off to pickup. A quote that beats it by a few hundred dollars is leaving one of those out.

Budget film coming off a door after a few Florida summers.

Budget film usually has no anti-yellowing top coat and no registered warranty: two or three Florida summers and it yellows, stains and goes hard on the paint.

Paint protection film has to last at least ten years and stay clear the whole time. That is what your car gets here: Urban with a 10-year warranty or Ceramic Pro PPF with a lifetime warranty, registered in your name, with the job reported to the vehicle’s CARFAX.

The worst case is the common one: a few years from now you pay to have a protection removed that looked cheap today and was supposed to last a decade, and you find the paint marked underneath. The cheap film cost twice.

What a cheap film job looks like

Six things we find when a car comes in to have someone else’s film taken off.

The blade this close to the paint is exactly where the damage happens. Our film is plotter-cut from your model's pattern before it touches the car; any relief cut around a badge is made on the film, never on the clear coat. Photo: Elite Premium Detailing (from our installation footage)

Blade cuts in the paint

The film is trimmed on the car with the blade riding on the clear coat. Every cut line is a scratch you find the day the film comes off. Ours is cut off the car, from the pattern for your exact model, so the blade never runs on the paint.

Dust and bubbles under the film by the grille, seam starting to lift. Photo: CHB74 via Rennlist

Dirt and bubbles under the film

Dust, lint and trapped water sealed under the film in an open bay show up in the first week of Florida sun. Ours goes on after the decontamination wash, in a closed, climate-controlled bay.

Rear bumper film lifting at the edge. Photo: COLT601 via Rennlist

Seams and lifting edges

Relief cuts across the middle of a panel, edges stopped short of the panel edge, corners that lift at the first pressure wash. We wrap the edges wherever the panel allows and keep seams where the eye does not go.

Old film coming off a Porsche hood: yellow and brittle after a few years.

Film that yellows and stains

Unbranded film with no top coat turns yellow and holds bug and sap marks. Urban carries a 10-year warranty and Ceramic Pro PPF a lifetime warranty on the original factory paint, both registered in your name. Stains are maintenance, not a defect, which is why Full Front comes with a Ceramic Pro Sport coating on the entire car.

Film lifting around the parking sensor. Photo: scooter100 via Rennlist

Film over sensors and cameras

Film laid over a parking sensor, a radar cover or a camera lens, or a bumper refitted a few millimeters off, and the driver aids start throwing warnings. Every sensor, camera and radar cover on your model is worked around, never covered.

Every Ceramic Pro coating and film we install is reported to the vehicle's CARFAX.

No registered warranty

A “lifetime warranty” typed on an invoice is worth what that shop is worth next year. Ours is the manufacturer’s, registered in your name, and the Ceramic Pro work is reported to the vehicle’s CARFAX.

Illustrations based on our own shop photos; reader photos credited on the card.

One stop shop

PPF, Ceramic Pro and KAVACA Ultimate IR tint go on the same car, in the same visit, on one schedule, in our bay in Davie next to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel. Full Front PPF from $1,799 with a Ceramic Pro Sport coating on the entire car included, ceramic tint at $99 per window, Ceramic Pro packages from $499, and 0% financing for 12 months on every service. The full package is priced as a package: build it in the Instant quote above and the number you see is the number at the counter.

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Registered warranty

Elite Premium Detailing is a Ceramic Pro Elite Dealer with a 5-star record. Every Ceramic Pro coating and Ceramic Pro PPF job is registered in your name and reported to the vehicle’s CARFAX with the date, the product and the installer. Because the film and coating are documented on the vehicle's CARFAX, the reinstallation can be included in an insurance repair after a collision. Terms are the manufacturer’s: Urban PPF 10 years, Ceramic Pro PPF the lifetime of the original factory paint, Ceramic Pro coatings by package (Bronze 2 years, Silver 5, Gold and Ultimate ION lifetime), KAVACA Ultimate IR window film for the life of the vehicle. Staining is not a warranty item on any film, ours included, which is why the coating goes over it.

How the coating goes on a beach-side car

Two to three days for most cars. The coating needs a stable, dust-free room to flash and cure, so it happens in the bay, not a driveway.

• Free inspection. Under lights, with you there. Salt etching, water spots and swirls get named, because a coating locks in whatever is under it.
• Decontamination and correction. Iron remover, tar remover, clay, then machine polishing. One stage is in every package; a Hollywood car that has never been garaged sometimes needs more, and we say so before starting.
• Layered by hand. 9H base coats for thickness, Top Coat for gloss and slickness, each layer flashed before the next, panel by panel in a climate-controlled room.
• Cure and documentation. The car sits indoors while the coating hardens, then the package is registered with Ceramic Pro and reported to CARFAX against the VIN, with the annual inspection date on your paperwork.

Salt, sand and sun: the Hollywood case for a coating

A car parked anywhere east of the 95 in Hollywood is in salt air all night, and salt pulls moisture out of the air and holds it against the paint. On bare clear coat that slowly dulls the finish and sets water spots that need polishing. On a coated car it sits on a hard, slick surface and comes off with a hose. The coating does not replace rinsing; it makes rinsing the only maintenance the paint needs.

Beach sand on A1A and Federal Highway adds fine abrasion at every wash, bird droppings under the palms on Hollywood Boulevard go acidic within hours, and a UV index at 7 or above all summer chalks unprotected clear coat. The coating resists all of it. What it will not stop is a rock on the 95 corridor, so the Hollywood drivers who keep a car longest pair it with paint protection film on the front end, in the same visit.

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