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Title: Ceramic coating, gone dull! Post by: leec on November 06, 2012, 21:03:47 pm I bought a header that has been ceramic coated. It's been used and has gone dull/bloomy in places, can it be polished or cleaned to restore it or is re-coating the only option?
Thanks, Lee Title: Re: Ceramic coating, gone dull! Post by: benlawrence on November 06, 2012, 21:14:46 pm your lucky, my a1 system is looking quite " ginger" these days, but i guess thats what happens when you live in a damp climate, i used to clean it up with autosol and it came up perfectly well.
I just gave up cleaning the thing in the end, it has lasted 6 years and has only just started rusting though in a lot of places on the header. Title: Re: Ceramic coating, gone dull! Post by: Bernard Newbury on November 06, 2012, 23:39:46 pm As Ben said you canpolish them with Autosol, but there is a coaters in Cheshire. Very good have used them this year. http://www.camcoat.u-net.com/
Title: Re: Ceramic coating, gone dull! Post by: dyno don on November 07, 2012, 05:06:23 am Hi Bernard, Welcome to the" Hightemp Dull Club'...This is most frustrating for those of us (myself,you,and many others)who have paid a premium to ensure a nice finish only to see it go dull in a short while. I have now gone to the black ceramic coating as it lasts and looks good(old school). I have polished several exhausts when detailing only to see them dull again. My turbo ghia back in the 90's dulled within the first 1k miles which REALLY pissed me off !! Go figure,they advertise this for jet afterburners but cant even hold up to our pride and joy VW's. You know what they say "Once you go black,you never go back"..LOL Good luck mate and keep up the good work..! Your pal, Dyno Don
Title: Re: Ceramic coating, gone dull! Post by: dyno don on November 07, 2012, 05:30:20 am oops, sorry meant for Lee...ah what the hell...we're all family here/LOL cheers
Title: Re: Ceramic coating, gone dull! Post by: hotrodsurplus on November 08, 2012, 07:42:54 am There's no reason to pay anyone to ceramic coat anything anymore. The new breed of air-cured ceramic coatings perform just as well and you can easily strip/reapply them if necessary. I've had black air-cured coating on my roadster's exhaust for six years now and it's holding up better than the oven-cured silver on my Thing's header.
www.cerakotehightemp.com/finishes/ (http://www.cerakotehightemp.com/finishes/) And now that the hype and glory of ceramic is over do as Don recommended and go black. It makes a car look more grown up. I always thought the silver looks cheap like spray chrome. You'll have to have the existing coating sandblasted off before applying a new finish. It's not exactly cheap but it's far less expensive than baked-finish coatings. |