When you apply compound or polish on your car, you might take the extra step of taping off the trim to prevent the compound/polish from getting stuck on your trim. To prevent this, taping off the trim can be an option, albeit it can be a time-consuming step. It’s also not totally necessary to tape off the car prior to polishing your car; you just have to know how to remove the polish if it does get on the trim of your car.

Ceramic coatings work wonderfully at providing a water-resistant coating that lasts a long time. However, there are times that a ceramic coating must be removed from a car. Since ceramic coatings provide a semi-permanent physical layer on the car’s paint that protects the vehicle from a host of different contaminants, it is difficult for car wash soaps and cleaners to chemically remove the coating. That is why the general consensus is that physical removal of the coating is necessary in the form of either clay bar or polish in order to remove a ceramic coating.