Water spots: The coatings achilles heel

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Considering how hyped up coatings are to begin with (not saying it’s unjustified, just an observation) it’s pretty ridiculous that this is their answer to the spotting problem.

Not only do you invest in cquartz UK, and reload, now you’ve got to invest into gliss.. what happens if gliss turns out to have a spotting problem? Are they going to unveil a 3rd layer? Protection for the protection protecting the protection?

Not trying to be argumentative or really aim this at you, I just think the entire coating market is absolutely ridiculous.

I’m sure they’re really great, but when the answer to a problem is “buy another layer!” It makes me very apprehensive to even want to try something more robust like cquartz.


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This is my feeling to plus the fact that I can barley go 2 weeks without putting something on my car. I didn't even know about the easy marring but that explains a lot.

 

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I don't think I'd refer to the products themselves as ridiculous, but maybe some of the marketing hype is.

Right now at present, I'm of the belief that this coating technology is still a bit in its infancy. That in time products will become further improved as technology progresses.

Absolutely agree with this. Ive already read some articles about some high tech nano coatings. 1 that completely repels water

 

[Ronin47]

Perhaps, everything has pros and cons. I’ve had good luck by layering multiple coats and washing quickly after sprinkler system or rain exposure.

I like the low maintenance factor but I do despise the easy marring.

The way I look at it is; They are a sacrificial barrier, and if I do have to Polish out scratches, I’d rather do it out of the coating than out of the paint.


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Cleaner Waxes can remove coatings as has been proven. So if your theory is correct, a cleaner wax should remove the scratch in the coating and leave you with scratch free paint right? You in for a huge disappointment. The most ludicrous claim made by coatings are their scratch resistance.

 

[BudgetPlan1]

Cleaner Waxes can remove coatings as has been proven.

Cleaner waxes can remove *some* coatings.

That said, I think the protection coatings can offer should be looked at in 2 ways:

1. Protection from physical marring and scratching, which I've found to be very, very minimal at best.

2. Protection from environmental incidents such as bird bombs and other goo that lands on the paint. I've found coatings to be pretty good in this area, some better than others.

Interestingly, considering that many coatings are marketed to higher end situations (OCD-ish folks, and others willing to pay $$$ for such work) the one situation where I've (accidentally) found that coatings really excel is in low maintenance, fleet vehicle situations. It's not the end if the world if these 'rolling billboards' get a scratch here and there but it is beneficial for them to generally look clean and shiny with minimal effort, "5 footers" if you will. Coatings, if chosen correctly with this in mind, truly do completely satisfy this need.

75% of our fleet where I work is coated because these were the only vehicles I had avaliable to play with when I was mucking around with a variety of coatings. These are "fire and forget" vehicles that I coated in winter and then received no attention until the next fall, about 20k hard miles later. Even the one's I did in March 2017 with products that turned out to be strong in the self-cleaning area still look good going into this season and will be shiny and, to the average person, look freshly washed with no intervention or maintenance. Obviously flaws and dirt will be found if examined closely but overall, the good ones continue to look fresh and clean wirh only Mother Nature giving them a bath on occasion.

As for coatings on a year round, black, 20k a year daily driver owned by someone who does find scratching and marring troubling...havent quite figrd that one out yet.