I must be mechanically illiterate, but what is up with this part? I am assuming that this sits right behind the front bumper. Why does it have the exposed screw underneath?
I will absolutely use a ceramic coating on the Antimatter Blue. I've been using CQuartz UK with great success. It will prevent most of the ugly swirl marks and fine sand scratches. As far as trail abuse.. you might want to use XPEL or something similar..