How Ceramic Coatings Are Changing Car Care

A new standard in car protection

For decades, protecting a car’s exterior meant choosing between regular waxing or simply accepting the slow erosion of paintwork under the pressures of weather, road debris and time. That equation is changing. Ceramic coatings — long the preserve of high-end detailing studios — are rapidly becoming the go-to solution for drivers who care not only about how their car looks today, but how it will look in five years.

In Portsmouth, where sea air, rain and city pollution form a persistent challenge...