2020 Ceramic Coating 1 Year Test

[Rsurfer]

It’s on my daily driver that sits outside 24/7 and I drive weekly to and from work.

Glad it's not summer time or you will need some Goo Gone to remove the tape residue.

Tape will probably need to be changed periodically.

 

[The Guz]

Glad it's not summer time or you will need some Goo Gone to remove the tape residue.

Tape will probably need to be changed periodically.

I have no residue from the tape. It is all gone. It was in the 70’s when I did this. It’s basically summer here almost of the year.

I was more concerned with wiping excess coating that gets under the tape to not get a hard edge.

 

[Rsurfer]

So you already removed the tape. How are you going to distinguish the sections months down the road?

 

[Bruno Soares]

So you already removed the tape. How are you going to distinguish the sections months down the road?

Overlaying with the original picture. See post 17 how he did it.

 

[Eldorado2k]

So you already removed the tape. How are you going to distinguish the sections months down the road?

Yea just scroll up a little bit in this same thread... You’ll find post #17. There’s a couple pictures with a dozen or so different names of where he used the products.

You could even choose to save those pics onto your phone and look at them again in a matter of seconds... It’s amazing what we can do in the year 2020.Lol.

 

[The Guz]

The following photos and video will establish a baseline for the each coating. First wash is from 1/18/2020. Next update with photos and videos will be in 3 months unless a coating starts to have different behavior.

Beading photos. I tried to find the information on the contact angle for each coating.

22ple HPC

22ple Insanity

Gyeon Mohs 95 degrees

Gyeon Syncro (Mohs + Skin) Skin contact angle 120 degree

Gyeon CanCoat 100 degrees

Drexler Base Coat

Drexler Ceramic (Base Coat + Top Coat) 110 degrees

IGL Quartz+ 110 degrees

SPS Graphene 125 degrees

Cquartz UK 3.0 110 degrees

Cquartz Lite 110 degrees

Jade Ice 100-110 degrees

Jade Quartz 100-110 degrees

Shine Supply Beadlock 108 degrees

Cquartz TiO2 110 degrees

Adams UV Paint Coating

Adams UV Spray Coating

Water beading 7:21
Water sheeting 13:20

 

[DarkThrottle]

The IGL Quartz + Has a 12 hour max wait time between coating layers. Any longer and the base has cured too far to allow proper chemical bonding between the 2 layers so there is a possibly that coating may suffer because of that . But who knows we will see


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[The Guz]

The IGL Quartz + Has a 12 hour max wait time between coating layers. Any longer and the base has cured too far to allow proper chemical bonding between the 2 layers so there is a possibly that coating may suffer because of that . But who knows we will see


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Should be fine. There is a bit of leeway when it comes to layering of coatings.

 

[gorillapr]

Awesome, this thread couldnt come on a better moment!

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[mk9750]

Guz,

Would you be willing to explain "contact angle"? I've begun to see the term used a bit and would like to know more.

Thanks!

 

[The Guz]

Guz,

Would you be willing to explain "contact angle"? I've begun to see the term used a bit and would like to know more.

Thanks!

Check out this video for the concept. About 1:10 into

Pulled from IGL.

The common behaviour of liquids is that it has a tendency to stick to things, including itself. Therefore, a surface is classified as either hydrophobic (scared of water) or hydrophilic (loving water) by the way it interacts with liquid, specifically water droplets.
A droplet that has absolutely no interaction with a surface will bead up into a perfect sphere and will have a contact angle of 180°whilst a water droplet that completely wets the surface has a contact angle of 0°.

Contact Angle Significance

If the water droplet sticks more to the surface than itself, that surface is hydrophilic and the water droplet will have a contact angle of less than 90°.
If the water droplet has a tendency to stick to itself more than it sticks to the surface, that surface is hydrophobic and water droplets will bead up to a contact angle of more than 90°.

The term superhydrophobic (also ultrahydrophobic) occurs when the effective contact angle of water drops is 150° or higher. There are many examples of naturally occurring superhydrophobic surfaces. These include both plants and insects surfaces.
One of the most notable superhydrophobic surface in nature is that of the lotus leaf. The extreme water repellency exhibited by lotus leaves is what inspired scientists to initially pursue research into superhydrophobic phenomena.

Superhydrophobic is used to describe a surface that exhibits both advancing and receding contact angles of higher than 150°.
The angle at which a water drop rolls off a tilted flat surface is known as the roll-off angle. Generally, superhydrophobic surfaces exhibit roll-off angles less than 5°, but very high quality superhydrophobic surfaces can exhibit roll-off angles of less than 1°.

 

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Thank for putting together and sharing Mike. Will be following along.

 

[mk9750]

Guz, Thanks for taking the time. I appreciate the info. I certainly learned something!

 

[gorillapr]

Awesome info, thanks Guz

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[The Guz]

It has been a little over a month and I am already starting to see some changes in hydrophobics with the car sitting outside 24/7.

Best Self cleaning effect: (Top 5)

Gyeon Syncro. As I mentioned from previous experience its initial performance is top notch. Lets see is it holds out or fizzles out in about 5 months total when Skin starts to show signs of degradation.
SPS Graphene
Cquartz UK 3.0
IGL
Adams UV Ceramic

Loss of hydrophobics.

Drexler Ceramic (Base Coat + Top Coat) - this has turned into sheeting like Gyeon Mohs. Water lays flat on the surface. Seems like it is either an application issue or the top coat is indeed already degrading.

Adams UV Spray Coating - This showed signs of slowing down after the first wash. It has one of the worst self cleaning effects. Turning into sheeting.

Cquartz TiO2 - This has started to turn into sheeting and its water beading has started to become more oblong shape. I believe this is looking like an application error as I have experienced this to perform on par with CQUK 3.0 on my hood for the last 20 months. It is not the first time I see application inconsistencies with it. I am going to leave it for now but I am to the point where I will not be focusing too much on it and will include is with test #2 next year.

The remaining coatings seem to be doing fine.

 

[waterman]

It has been a little over a month and I am already starting to see some changes in hydrophobics with the car sitting outside 24/7.

Best Self cleaning effect: (Top 5)

Gyeon Syncro. As I mentioned from previous experience its initial performance is top notch. Lets see is it holds out or fizzles out in about 5 months total when Skin starts to show signs of degradation.
SPS Graphene
Cquartz UK 3.0
IGL
Adams UV Ceramic

Loss of hydrophobics.

Drexler Ceramic (Base Coat + Top Coat) - this has turned into sheeting like Gyeon Mohs. Water lays flat on the surface. Seems like it is either an application issue or the top coat is indeed already degrading.

Adams UV Spray Coating - This showed signs of slowing down after the first wash. It has one of the worst self cleaning effects. Turning into sheeting.

Cquartz TiO2 - This has started to turn into sheeting and its water beading has started to become more oblong shape. I believe this is looking like an application error as I have experienced this to perform on par with CQUK 3.0 on my hood for the last 20 months. It is not the first time I see application inconsistencies with it. I am going to leave it for now but I am to the point where I will not be focusing too much on it and will include is with test #2 next year.

The remaining coatings seem to be doing fine.

Hello,

I just purchased cquartztio2. It hasn’t arrived yet. Do you think I will be better of with U.K.? I emailed carpro with another question and they recommended TiO2.

 

[Sizzle Chest]

Thanks for the update Guz!

 

[The Guz]

Hello,

I just purchased cquartztio2. It hasn’t arrived yet. Do you think I will be better of with U.K.? I emailed carpro with another question and they recommended TiO2.

It depends on what you are looking for. For more reflectivity TiO2 beats CQUK 3.0 due to the TiO2.

CQUK 3.0 forks the harder surface while TiO2 offers better stain resistance.

On my daily both have performed the same at 20 months.

In the end it doesn’t matter because people top their coatings with something. So it’s a wash at that point.

 

[gorillapr]

Interesting that CQuartz Lite is like a mix of those 2

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[BudgetPlan1]

It has been a little over a month and I am already starting to see some changes in hydrophobics with the car sitting outside 24/7.

Best Self cleaning effect: (Top 5)

Gyeon Syncro. As I mentioned from previous experience its initial performance is top notch. Lets see is it holds out or fizzles out in about 5 months total when Skin starts to show signs of degradation.
SPS Graphene
Cquartz UK 3.0
IGL
Adams UV Ceramic

Loss of hydrophobics.

Drexler Ceramic (Base Coat + Top Coat) - this has turned into sheeting like Gyeon Mohs. Water lays flat on the surface. Seems like it is either an application issue or the top coat is indeed already degrading.

Adams UV Spray Coating - This showed signs of slowing down after the first wash. It has one of the worst self cleaning effects. Turning into sheeting.

Cquartz TiO2 - This has started to turn into sheeting and its water beading has started to become more oblong shape. I believe this is looking like an application error as I have experienced this to perform on par with CQUK 3.0 on my hood for the last 20 months. It is not the first time I see application inconsistencies with it. I am going to leave it for now but I am to the point where I will not be focusing too much on it and will include is with test #2 next year.

The remaining coatings seem to be doing fine.

Howz the 22ple stuff doing, HPC vs Insanity?

I'm starting to get a little curiously suspicious of topcoat longevity like Skin, EXO and similar. Although my experience with them is in no maintenance, 'fire and forget' mode. They just seem to fade away somewhat quickly . Gliss V2 is still doing good n top of the CQ UK 3 from last year but it's only accumulated 7500 miles since application. Maybe they just need more frequent and particular maintenance.

Gyeon really needs to sell Skin as a separate product...Syncro/Skin is galactically good right after application.

Good stuff, thanks for doing this.