Review: Wolfgang Uber Ceramic Coating

BudgetPlan1 said:
OP removal...did ya wet sand it?
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No, I used CarPro Denim & Velvet Pads + M101 and about 80 hours of spare time.

Not the fastest way but safe enough. If I had to do it again I would wet sand.
 
4u2nvinmtl said:
Make makes you say this? It's still going strong...
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From post 10 on the beading is gone, only 5 days after its applied.

Ive gone weeks in the middle of winter and if my hood gets wet it will bead.
 
I was going to say something about that as well but sometimes this happens and then you wash the car and the next time it sits in the rain it beads up again.

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Possibly but there is no evidence anywhere of beading. It didnt stick ill bet.
 
Im not trying to make anyone feel bad. I have 2 doors on my truck that beaded and then didnt. In his second video there is beading but it isnt remarkable. I get beading on my hood during a snow storm, after, even behind a sander with rocks hitting the hood.

Just throwing it out there.
 
JeffM said:
From post 10 on the beading is gone, only 5 days after its applied.

I've gone weeks in the middle of winter and if my hood gets wet it will bead.
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My hood still beads perfectly when it's clean but not when dirty. The pictures in post 10 were all taken without washing the hood, so the sap from the tree above and whatever else was preventing the water from beading well. I still haven't applied any other LSP's to the hood and have only washed with meg's hyper wash and did one CarPro eraser wipe down (to clean the coating).

Here's how the beading looks as of Jan 9th 2016, two months after the coating was applied (long after post 10):


I'd love to hear your take as to why the beading returns after a wash?
 
It has something to do with surface retention, that's what others have said but I can't really explain what it means but I'm sure it has something to do with the dirt absorbing the water and not allowing it to bead??

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JeffM said:
Im not trying to make anyone feel bad. I have 2 doors on my truck that beaded and then didnt. In his second video there is beading but it isnt remarkable. I get beading on my hood during a snow storm, after, even behind a sander with rocks hitting the hood.

Just throwing it out there.
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No hurt feelings. In fact, I thought the same thing at first, and I believe in one of my posts I wanted to apply a second layer of the coating to be sure but after doing an CarPro Eraser wipe down the beading came back perfectly (IMHO).

It's not the rocks, sand, or salt that mess with the beading for me, it's the road film, and sap from the tree above where I park that messes with the coating (sticky tacky stuff sticking to the coating). Take some molasses, maple syrup, or honey, and spread it on a coated panel then let it dry/bake in the sun, and I'm fairly sure the beading will be gone until you wash it very well. That's basically what's happening to me (I think)...

I'd love an explanation but from my experience with the coating it starts to work as usual once washed.

I'd also like to see some pictures or video of a very dirty panel caked with grime beading.

I was hoping that the coating would be a miracle product that repels dirt/road grime and tree sap but it's no more possible than preventing rock chips.
 
Klasse Act said:
It has something to do with surface retention, that's what others have said but I can't really explain what it means but I'm sure it has something to do with the dirt absorbing the water and not allowing it to bead??

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Well I'd need a microscope to analyze what's actually sticking to the coating and preventing the beading, but I'll go out on a limb and assume it's a mixture of tree sap, oil, grease, and tar resting on top of the coating.

As a test I could compound and polish half the hood just to show the difference (with coating and without coating), if there's interest... Or I could recoat half of the hood and see if that side preforms any better than the single layer side.
 
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