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I will be coating my car this weekend with CarPro Cquartz UK Edition. My question is down the road am I better off with Reload once a month vs Gliss every 6 months for a sacrificial layer on the coating. It's a black Subaru that (once the craziness is over) that spends most days parking in the Texas sun baking while I'm at work. UV protection is a top priority for me.
 
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I will be coating my car this weekend with CarPro Cquartz UK Edition. My question is down the road am I better off with Reload once a month vs Gliss every 6 months for a sacrificial layer on the coating. It's a black Subaru that (once the craziness is over) that spends most days parking in the Texas sun baking while I'm at work. UV protection is a top priority for me.
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Gliss would be ideal at the initial application. There is nothing wrong applying it down the road but it will take more work to remove Reload to get Gliss to bond to CQUK 3.0.

I’m not a big fan of Reload. For starters it doesn’t last long and it’s hydrophobic properties die off pretty quickly. It’s fine for the initial application to prevent the coating from spotting after the initial application of CQUK 3.0.

I would recommend maintaining with Elixir as often as you desire as a drying aid.
 
@The Guz - you have so many posts on this topic, the information you provide is staggering.

What are your thoughts on Exlir vs Hydro2 ? It seems a topper with silica would provide better UV protection, heck maybe not I am not a chemist.

I wash planning on using hyper wash for my weekly wash and reset once a month.
 
Your choice of shampoo are fine. I would choose Elixir over Hydro2. Elixir does have a little hydro2 in its formula.
 
Do you want to stick with only Cquartz products? If not I topped my CQUK3 with Gyeon Cancoat and looked amazing. Definitely a difference in visuals as I left one panel coated only with CQUK3 and no Cancoat. Been almost a year and going to ad another layer.


If plan on using Reload look at Griots Ceramic 3-1. Really good standard topper. If price not a concern Polish Angel and Kamikaze make nice maintenance products though not cheap.


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I am not married to any brand. I thought genral thought was with Ceramics is to stick ith them same company as the product are designed to interact with each other.
 
kenshotx said:
I am not married to any brand. I thought genral thought was with Ceramics is to stick ith them same company as the product are designed to interact with each other.
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I personally think the idea of synergy is partly true/ partly marketing. Plenty of folks on here use differnent products from different manufacturers with no issues.

I have had 0 issues with my set up coming up on a year. Im going to reapply Cancoat because i have it but have topped with various toppers since applied.


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I've also used CanCoat to maintain the longevity of CQUK 3.0.

During the winter months though that's not possible - so this year I used Kenotek Show Room Shine after waterless washes.
 
I can't tell you anything from first-hand experience but I applied CQUK to my car for the first time this weekend. After a lot of good input from people here, particularly The Guz, I decided to go with Gliss. I'll be applying it tomorrow.
 
gofast182 said:
I can't tell you anything from first-hand experience but I applied CQUK to my car for the first time this weekend. After a lot of good input from people here, particularly The Guz, I decided to go with Gliss. I'll be applying it tomorrow.
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You’ll really like it. Gliss takes UK to another level and the coating becomes slick. Washing the car will be so easy.
 
First coat of UK went on today. Missed the 60 minute window so 2nd coat and reload goes on tomorrow
 
You said you were going to use Gliss. Now you said Reload. If you’re going to use Gliss make sure you don’t use Reload before it. I’d actually not use Reload at all, just stop at Gliss and if you like topping, use Elixir on a regular basis.
 
I was only going to use reload to top the 2nd coat. Gliss 6 month topper. Or I could just Garage it for a week while I wait for an order of Gliss.

We are locked in - so my daily driver can be used by the family for Grocery getting.
 
kenshotx said:
I was only going to use reload to top the 2nd coat. Gliss 6 month topper. Or I could just Garage it for a week while I wait for an order of Gliss.

We are locked in - so my daily driver can be used by the family for Grocery getting.
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Yeah, definitely do Gliss now on top of fresh UK and forget Reload. It’s not Carpro’s best product. If you maintain the car with Elixir you won’t have to put any topper on the car 6 months down the road.
 
I also have reload it’s ok it’s an average performer. Sandro from car craft auto YouTube did a neat video on it where it competes against 3 other toppers. Reload darkened the paint when he lifted the tape lines and compared it to the others. I did a little test square on a personal car it did visually darken and increase depth but has only average water beading. Reload became obsolete once I tried megs ceramic detailer. Have not tried bead booster....yet
 
Gliss should be here by Tuesday. The Outback has been in the garage the whole time 10 days
. CQuartz will be fully cured and ready for Gliss!
 
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