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DIY Ceramic Coatings. Who has applied?

To start, I'm not talking about the spray bottle stuff you buy at a parts store or Walmart.. I have a bunch of those! Now that the search is over and I bought a 2022 Rav4 TRD Off Road (hoping to pick up by Friday) in Blue Flame with Ice Edge roof, I'm thinking a real ceramic coating is in order.

So this brings me to... which ceramic coating? I have all the tools to do a solid detail and polish. Since it's brand new, it won't need any real paint correction. I'm looking into different ceramic coatings. Not the spray on from a bottle kind but a true graphene/ceramic coating that lasts up to or beyond 5 years.

Adams has this
https://adamspolishes.com/collections/ceramics-graphene-graphene-ceramic-coating%E2%84%A2/products/graphene-ceramic-coating%E2%84%A2

Chemical guys offers this
https://www.chemicalguys.com/carbon-force-ceramic-protective-paint-coating-system/WAC232.html?gtmListValue=Category%3A%20ceramic

I've called a couple shops that do ceramic. I had a price of $1300 to ceramic coat a new vehicle. That seems nuts! For that much, I'll buy two bottles of the Adams and use one on my "test vehicle" to perfect my method, then move to the Rav.
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