Ceramic Coating in Pembroke Pines, FL

Ceramic Coating for Pembroke Pines drivers, installed in Davie

For Pembroke Pines the nearest Ceramic Pro Elite Dealer is fifteen minutes north: University Drive to Griffin Road, or I-75 to the 595 and down State Road 7, to 5150 SW 48th Way, Unit 614 in Davie, next to the Hard Rock. From Silver Lakes and Chapel Trail on the west side it is closer to twenty; from the Pembroke Lakes Mall end of town, under fifteen.

A ceramic coating bonds to the clear coat and makes it hard, glossy and slick, so water, bird droppings, lovebug residue and sprinkler minerals sit on the coating instead of bonding to the paint. The visible result is gloss. The practical result is that a Pembroke Pines car that lives in a driveway comes clean with a rinse and a pH-neutral wash instead of needing to be polished every year.

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, every one 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

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 and not a driveway.

• Free inspection. Under lights, with you there. Sprinkler spots, wash swirls and oxidation get identified, because a coating seals in whatever is under it.
• Decontamination and correction. Iron remover, tar remover, clay, then machine polishing. One stage is in every package; cars that have gone through years of automatic brush washes sometimes need more, and we say so before starting.
• Layered by hand. 9H base coats build the thickness, Top Coat brings the gloss and slickness. Each layer flashes 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.

Driveways, sprinklers and Pines Boulevard dust

Most Pembroke Pines cars sleep in a driveway next to a lawn that gets watered before dawn, and that is the coating's job in this town. Irrigation water dries on the lower doors and leaves mineral spots; on bare clear coat they etch and have to be polished out, on a coated car they rinse off. The construction dust that Pines Boulevard has been shedding for years settles the same way, and comes off the same way.

The sun is the other half. A UV index of 7 or higher all summer is what fades and chalks unprotected clear coat, and the coating's UV resistance is why coated cars still look wet at year five. What a coating does not do is stop a rock on I-75, so the Pines drivers who keep a car longest usually pair it with paint protection film on the front end, done in the same visit.

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