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Not sure if that image worked, but this is a great example of uncoated vs coated. Adam's ran a ceramic add where half the trunk was coated and the other half was uncoated. After spraying with a hose, within 5 seconds the uncoated side on the left was completely dry whereas the coated side had a ton of beading obviously.

My question to any chemist would be this - what's worse for your paint...hard water immediately drying on your paint, or hard water beading and potentially sitting there for hours baking in the sun?
 
Big Dave said:
Is this the logic then, beading for cars that are garaged, because they only get wet when they are being driven, sheeting for cars parked outside, so it runs off while they sit in the rain?

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Rain doesn’t cause water spots.
 
Autobahnd said:
Unfortunately this is highly dependent on where you live. Cities for example have a lot of air pollution and can frequently produce acid rain
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Ric (Eldorado2k) lives in Los Angeles.

Can you name a more air-polluted city?
 
Autobahnd said:
Unfortunately this is highly dependent on where you live. Cities for example have a lot of air pollution and can frequently produce acid rain
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I live in the southern most part of the city of Los Angeles, less than a mile from the port, surrounded by refineries, probably the worst air pollution in whole country if not the world. Rain doesn’t cause water spots here. Lol.

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Eldorado2k said:
I live in the southern most part of the city of Los Angeles, less than a mile from the port, surrounded by refineries, probably the worst air pollution in whole country if not the world. Rain doesn’t cause water spots here. Lol.

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LOL, ya doesn't get much worse than that! Consider yourself lucky though. Walked by three black ceramic coated cars in the parking lot today that got absolutely destroyed by the rain we got yesterday in Mass from Isaias
 
PaulMys said:
Ric (Eldorado2k) lives in Los Angeles.

Can you name a more air-polluted city?
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Jakarta Indonesia, the cesspool of the world... it makes LA look like a walk in the park! Drive an hour or so outside of Jakarta to the tea fields in the mountains and it’s amazing!


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The only issues I've ever seen around water spots and coatings are from municipal or well water that is allowed to dry. Sprinklers from at home or even from a hotel are a prime example for the average person. Otherwise the only time I've ever seen an acid rain or hard water spot harm paint is if it's not protected in some way.

I've been doing this for a very long time way prior to being here on AG and have yet to see issues either from customers or on my personal car which are very often black in color.

Back on topic:

Beading from various Ceramic Coatings:

GYEON Syncro from back in April 2018 after it's first rain encounter. Tight and standing tall, super hydrophobic as that water just blows off with ease.

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FFWD to over 26 months later, she is still standing tall. Not day one tall, but the sheeting action is still outstanding. From June 2020:

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Cquartz UK 3.0 and Gliss V2 12 months after installation. Very similar sheeting property, extremely good

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Turtle Wax Seal within 30 days of install/testing it. On my old Jeep XJ.

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I think it’s a combo of Turtle Wax Hybrid Ceramic products and Bead Maker. (The experimentation days)
 
Big Dave said:
I've got DDJ Iron Gloss on the vinyl wrapped part of my hood, as a test. The vinyl is already mud stained, so it can't make it any worse. I didn't realize it was a sheeting product till after I bought it. First rain since I applied it is due tomorrow.

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So we got our rain, and the vinyl wrap is beading up almost as good as the rest of the hood. DDJ Iron Gloss on the vinyl, and 303 touchless sealant on the paint. View attachment 70450

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It might not have the tightest beads but definitely has great self cleaning properties.

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Nice beading pics, ok I know I’m going to ask a stupid all around question.

When it rains and the water beads, are suppose to go out and dry since it already has protection?

What if we away from our cars for days and can’t dry it?

I’m new to detailing


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TrustJesus said:
Nice beading pics, ok I know I’m going to ask a stupid all around question.

When it rains and the water beads, are suppose to go out and dry since it already has protection?

What if we away from our cars for days and can’t dry it?

I’m new to detailing


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Not a stupid question at all, plus it’s hard to learn if you’re not asking questions!

You don’t have to go outside and dry the car, it’s protected and depending on the amount of rain, certain/some LSP’s will “self clean” better than others(ceramics are most known for this but there are quite a few sealants that have a strong self cleaning ability).

It’ll naturally dry on its own of course, any water spotting will be from the droplets accumulating any surface dust or dirt that has come to rest on the paint. They will wash away when you are next able to do that.

Only time I’d recommend rushing out and getting the water off the car is when it’s from sprinklers or a hose, since there’s generally higher levels of minerals in the water which will etch your clear.
 
Thanks man, I’m new to detailing.
I got you.


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Bunch of great guys here, that go out there way. I’ve learned so much stuff, from better approaches, we’ll all I can do is keep trying.

If you don’t fail, you ain’t trying.


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TrustJesus said:
Nice beading pics, ok I know I’m going to ask a stupid all around question.

When it rains and the water beads, are suppose to go out and dry since it already has protection?

What if we away from our cars for days and can’t dry it?

I’m new to detailing


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If my garage were available I would of pulled it in and blew the water off (I havedone so many times) But I have a cycle in there for a coating job so I waited till morning and just took a little ride for the second day in a row.

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And a couple pictures later that day.

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