Touch up of Uber Ceramic Coating

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Applied coating for the first time yesterday.Once I got it out in the sun today, I noticed 2 sots on driver door that I think are either dry spots or high spots. What are my options to fix this?Do I need to redo whole panel. After all the prep and overall great results, I have to make this right. I tried to take a picture but could not get them to show. It is like 2 ghosts of the sponge applicator
 
Probably best to redo the entire panel. If you try to touch it up it will look uneven. Probably not the answer you were hoping for.
 
wil2007 said:
Applied coating for the first time yesterday.Once I got it out in the sun today, I noticed 2 sots on driver door that I think are either dry spots or high spots. What are my options to fix this?Do I need to redo whole panel. After all the prep and overall great results, I have to make this right. I tried to take a picture but could not get them to show. It is like 2 ghosts of the sponge applicator
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Hi, as soon as my order arrives I will be applying uber as well. Can I ask how it went for you? Any tips for a novice?
 
Overall it went well. Lots of prep.As was advised to me,good work light. I think everything would have gone perfectly with better lighting
 
How would you redo a panel? Do you have to polish it out and then reapply? I have a few spots on my car with this problem as well so I'd really like to know.

Thanks
 
Eh, applied the Uber Ceramic to a black Vette about two weeks ago...noticed a high spot/smudge above one door handle about a week later when car finally made it outside. Took a white, 3" foam pad, dabbed some WG Finishing Glaze on it, buffed off the high spot by hand , hit spot with WG Paintwork Prep then some leftover Ceramic on one of those foam finger pads they include with kit per instructions. Blended right in, water sheds evenly over entire panel, no touch-up areas noted. Took about a minute or two. Your mileage may vary but looks fine to me with spot touch up.
 
Good to know it's pretty simple to correct. Looks like I have some work to do.

Thanks!
 
HazardousTR said:
Good to know it's pretty simple to correct. Looks like I have some work to do.

Thanks!
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Yeah, me too. Just found a spot on a black Subaru WRX that needs 'updating'...Doh! Funny how you don't see some of this stuff until the car is 'out in the wild' no matter how clearly you inspect after initial application.
 
As I looked truck over in sun, I found several spots.Hit them with Menzerna SF4000, perfect prep and recoated small areas. Blended in fine and very happy with product. Touch up proved to be very easy
 
BudgetPlan1 said:
Yeah, me too. Just found a spot on a black Subaru WRX that needs 'updating'...Doh! Funny how you don't see some of this stuff until the car is 'out in the wild' no matter how clearly you inspect after initial application.
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Yeah especially when it's a black vehicle, the flaws show up a lot more. My black Challenger has a few spots I didn't notice until I got it out in the sun for a week.
 
Just to chime in...


rlmccarty2000 said:
Probably best to redo the entire panel. If you try to touch it up it will look uneven.
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I agree. For a perfect touch-up do the entire panel. That said, you can polish a small area and the chemically strip and the re-apply the Uber Coating and be sure to overlap past the polished area.


postaddict said:
Hi, as soon as my order arrives I will be applying uber as well. Can I ask how it went for you?

Any tips for a novice?
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Here's a full how-to write up that you could call a tip

Review & How-To: Wolfgang Uber Ceramic Paint Coating



In my opinion and experience, you really need a lot of high quality microfiber towels to chemically strip paint in order to properly prep it for the application of any coating.

Why?

Because as you're wiping a polished surface off assuming there are polishing oils to be removed, if they are coming off the paint and onto your microfiber towel then you need to be switching out to fresh towels. This means a LOT of fresh towels.

Each panels should be wiped two times and each time using a clean towels. A car with 9 panels would require 18 towels just for chemically stripping the paint.

A 4 door car has roughly 11 defined panels. There's also painted portions in the front and rear of the car that need to be chemically stripped if they are to be coated.

  1. Roof
  2. Hood
  3. Trunk lid
  4. Driver's side front fender
  5. Driver's door
  6. Driver's side passenger door
  7. Driver's side rear fender
  8. Back of car not the trunk lid
  9. Passenger side rear fender
  10. Passenger side rear door
  11. Passenger side front door
  12. Passenger side front fender
  13. Front of car that's not the hood


If you compound and polish the car before coating it then you'll need microfiber towels for these two steps and you'll need microfiber towels for wiping off the high spots after applying the coating.


Just thought I would share this for anyone new to applying paint coatings.


:)
 
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