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Hydrophobic is the term used when a surface pushes liquid away rather than absorbing it. When water moves from a surface, it is much more likely to carry dirt and other contaminants away. With a protective coating, the beads of liquid run off so it can’t dry up and leave its trace elements and minerals on the surface.
Read MoreWe Hope You Have a Safe and Wonderful Labor Day Weekend! If you are looking for some fun activities this weekend, check out these lists…
Read MoreCapitol Shine offers Vinyl Wrapping for your car. Imagine changing your vehicle’s color while preserving the original paint underneath. This can be removed at a later time and return the vehicle to its factory color. In addition to changing the color of your car, vinyl can…
Read MoreAt some point or another, we’ve all seen a car with a thick, leather bra on the front like the one pictured above. Listen, we have NOTHING against protecting a car’s paint – it’s what we’re all about! However, since the…
Read MoreThis Week Only: 15% Off Premium Services: Save with Capitol Shine! Through August 15th, Capitol Shine is offering 15% off premium services including: Paint Protection (Ceramic Pro, XPEL), Paint Protection Film and Vinyl, Window Tint
Read MoreEverything ages, especially the paintwork and exterior of your car. It gets bleached by the sun’s rays, scratched by stones and debris thrown up from the road, and dinged by everything from garage doors to passenger handbags. This means a lot of time and money needs to be dedicated to maintenance.
Read MoreThe DC Metro area is full of pet friendly areas: Parks, restaurants, walking trails and more. We love driving our pets around to the best locations and letting them run free. Unfortunately (and especially with the hot weather and shedding), that also means ending up with pet hair in our car's interior - it's a small price to pay for the happiness of our pets!
Read MoreThanks to Vinyl Wraps, we are able to quickly change the color of your car while preserving the factory paint underneath! This can be removed at a later time and return the vehicle to its factory color or, in this case, replaced with a different color wrap.
Read MoreKeeping the interior of your car clean is always a concern. At Capitol Shine / Ceramic Pro DC, protection goes beyond just the paint; we offer services and products to protect the interior of your vehicle as well: Interior Shampoo, Steam Cleaning, Ventilation Decontamination, Ceramic Pro TAG: Effective air purification, anti-mold and anti-bacterial solution…
Read MoreCapitol Shine's Window Tint, also known as Window Protective Film, offers unparalleled protection against the sun AND is recommended by The Skin Cancer Foundation. We use XPEL PRIME which outperforms other types of films to keep you comfortable and protected, all backed by the industries only lifetime transferable warranty.
Read MoreCarfax has teamed up with Ceramic Pro to increase the resale value of vehicles. As the official press release states: “Ceramic Pro is helping maximize the resale value of their customers’ vehicles by reporting product installation details to Carfax…”
Read MoreWe’ve talked a lot about our VINYL options - how they help protect your paint and can even change the color of your car while preserving the factory paint underneath. In addition to that, vinyl can also change the texture by adding a matte (flat) look, cover the chrome around the window with a different color, highlight door handles, etc.
Read More“Frank McCormick and J.W. Hinkle opened “Automobile Laundry” in Detroit, Mich. in 1914 as the first production line car wash in the world. Prior to this, car cleaning was…
Read MoreWe work on all shapes and sizes of vehicles, doing a variety of services. One item we love doing is Paint Correction, a term used by auto detailers to describe the process of restoring the paintwork of a vehicle…
Read MoreYou just spent a large sum of hard earned money on the car you've been wanting for a while. You take it out on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, open it up with the windows down, and then, **clunk**. What was that? A rock flew up and chipped your bumper.
Read MoreCapitol Shine has evolved over the years to offer more and more services beyond our popular hand wash and vacuuming. In addition to detailing, buffing out scratches and wheel cleaning, we also offer a variety of add-on services such as…
Read MoreA new video showing Paint Protection Film in action has gone viral as many people who aren't familiar with PPF are wowed by its self-healing properties. In 3 days, the video originally posted to Reddit …
Read MoreVinyl Wrapping can change your vehicle’s color while preserving the original paint underneath. This can be removed at a later time and return the vehicle to its factory color. In addition to changing the color of your car, vinyl can…
Read More"April Showers Bring May Flowers.” It’s a popular saying, however we bet the poets of the 1600’s where this phrase originated from didn’t have to worry about what those showers could do to a car’s interior…
Read MoreWe've got a surplus of Ceramic Pro Interior, so we figured what better way to use it than to offer 50% OFF interior coatings! An Interior Protective Coating helps prevent stains and makes cleanup easy…
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