The established method of polyurethane coating a car (which you'd often see as a thin line on cars where only the front was so protected) is losing favor to ceramic coating.
On the market I see "ceramic coating" sprays available to consumers. I also see professional shops and dealers advertising ceramic coating.
One is two orders of magnitude more expensive than the other (which can hardly be justified by labor alone), and so I'm wondering whether these two are even related, aside from the name.
Is the difference between consumer-level and pro-level ceramic coating:
- qualitative (the pros use a different substance and/or apply the ceramic coating using a method entirely different from the one an amateur would use), or only
- quantitative (the pros put a much more substantial layer that lasts for years rather than for few months)?