How does ceramic coating cars/trucks/SUVs work?

CERAMIC COATING THICKNESS cont.

For perspective, various ceramic coatings claim different thicknesses of their coatings, but assume most packages, even a Gold Package from Ceramic Pro with four layers of 9H (now Ceramic Pro is using Ion, which takes less) and a layer of Top Coat, are 5 microns or less. Typically, most ceramic coatings are around 1-2 microns thick.

Your clearcoat is generally 35-50 microns, although we have discussed before why that is thinner than it used to be. That is about 1.5-2 mils.

Vinyl wrap is about 3 mils thick, so a little thicker than your clearcoat.

Clear bra/paint protection film is typically 8-10 mil thick, almost 3x the thickness of of vinyl, and so much thicker than ceramic coating that they frankly don’t belong in the same sentence when discussing protection.