tonecas

Has anyone place ceramic coating on this area of the car? The plastic with some kind of tissue over the wheels that protect the chassis.

I did cover it for ease of cleaning but I am not sure if that amplifies the road noise in the cabin since it hardens the material

NickBoz

Just ceramic coated my wheels and brake calipers, not only are my wheels still clean 2 weeks later without a wash, they retain much less dust and repel water with ease, especially with the rainstorm we had in SoCal not too long ago. Highly recommend doing this and might eventually upgrade to full body ceramic coat but since my car is a lease might have to pass on that and let the next owner do it.

tonecas

yeah, i did the same. but since i outright purchase the car I did full PPF wrap and full ceramic coating with Gyeon MOHS+, including wheels, calipers AND inside the fenders. and that is my doubt. my detailing guy asked me if i wanted it because he said that the inside of the fenders were not like a carpet/tissue that I was expecting for lowering road noise level inside the cabin. so he just cover it too to make it easy to clean. that area gets hit hard by mud, rocks, tar, etc. but I don't know if hardening that stuff with ceramic coat will increase the road noise level.

i guess that if it does is should be negligible but just checking if anyone has consider this.

by the way, this combined protection works like a charm. car's surface is smooth as silk and very easy to clean

SpaceDesign

Hi had my Estate fully ceramic coated, inside and out, including the wheels exterior / interior, callipers, and all wheel arches 3 months ago. Coating has self levelled and cured well. Have not noticed any difference in road noise in the cabin or the boot area. Rear wheel arches have a fibre surface and its feels the same as it did before the coating. Front wheel arches have smooth non fibre moulding in the arches, different to rear. Very easy to clean wheels and arches now with pressure washer and soap. I still need a brush to reach in to the underside of the wheel arch to remove the build up of crude that accumulates there because of the wheel arch design. Failing to wash there regularly will in my humble opinion cause trouble with the wing panels in future.

Worth mentioning, if you have your wheels balanced in the future, you need to inform the balancer, as they will need to gently sand the area of the rim that the weight will be applied to as the weight will not stick to the ceramic coating.

tonecas

thanks!
what do you mean with this? wing panels? where are those?

SpaceDesign

Put your hand under the top of your wheel arch / (fender?) and see if you have a build up of road crude, the steel is not that thick and the paint is very thin behind there, I believe undetected build up of crude here will retain moisture which never really gets to dry out in my local climate at this time of year, thus potentially causing paint and panel corrosion
I clean mine in every wash.