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Water is average... I have municipal water and I have a water softener in my house so my water is soft (but has sodium content due to water softening process - so if not dried properly I get soft water spots instead of hard water spots, soft are easier to clean up though). Also, when I do use...

I looked at the label on my current car soap : According to the description it is supposed to wash off clean with no additives, etc. Also, the name in itself seems to indicate that it's a no additives/no frills coating. I'm trying to salvage this soap since I have a brand new gallon - want to...

I will try my best to revive it - bottle of Reset on order (along with some other goodies - Master Blaster Revolution!! :)) What product should I use to decontaminate beyond Reset? I have Iron-X for iron but my only tar-focused product is Poorboy`s Bug Squash and I find it very mild, even at...

Bad link? I don`t see any photos and the link gives me a 404 error... Would love to see it though! thanks

I think I've come to the conclusion that my application did not turn out okay. On the bottom 12-16 inches of doors, the water literally just stays there, even after "cleansing" the panel with IPA to remove gloss enhancers or waxes... it barely even sheets down, no different from an uncoated car...

The crappiest! lol Slush, snow, salt, ice chunks, salt spray kicked up by tires.

Fair enough - what about high humidity?

I did wipe down half a panel with IPA and saw little to no change... still not seeing much water sheeting or beading on the lower doors... I seem to be getting good water performance above the belt line of the car but not on lower panels... I fear that maybe my garage wasn't warm enough for...

To isolate my problem, should I IPA wipe a panel to remove any polymer, wax or gloss enhancer on top of the coating and see if it improves performance on that panel compared to adjacent panels? Any harm in using IPA on top of CSL? I suspect it won't affect CSL?

Another thought - do we agree that there is a stronger probability that the Waterless Wash & Wax is the more problematic product? As I said, I`ve used this product twice on the paint in the 2 months since it was coated. Since it is formulated as a wash and wax, a large amount of stuff is getting...

Yes, I believe that's it. When I bought it I thought it did not have any gloss in it but upon further reading it does. Are there shampoos out there that aren't marketed as coating specific but would do as great a job and would leave nothing behind. I feel like you are paying a significant...

Thank you! You raise a valid point about leftover polishing oils from M205... Very possible that is the case. However you do seem to say that the CSL appears to be performing as it should. Should I then try to apply EXO on top? Also, I forget my IPA mix ratio, to be honest, but it came...

Hi all, following up on this post. I made a video showing the water beading/sheeting performance of the coating after 2 months. From what I've seen in other videos, the hydrophobic properties of CSL alone should be better than what I'm experiencing. Where did I go wrong? YouTube Would...

Thanks - nothing on top of CSL. I had read conflicting info on EXO over CSL not being much better (i.e. not being worth extra labor and cost) so I opted to try CSL only. I will look at doing the CSL/EXO combo for my next vehicle but still want to wait and see if those orange specks are...

This is what the vehicle looked like after a full wash. This is 5 weeks post coating. Again, the car had an application of Iron-X and was fully clayed before applying the coating. EDIT: I guess the forum resizes the photos so hard to see the spots... I did 2 applications of Iron-X on this door...

Thank you for all the replies - much appreciated. From my understanding, it appears that the consensus is that these would be leftover contaminants "beneath" the coating and not something sticking on top? I can certainly try Iron-X. Perhaps I will play it safe and only do a single panel and see...

Hi all, This is my first post on this forum - I am located in Atlantic Canada. Been lurking forever but never joined until now. I did my first DIY ceramic coating with GTechniq CSL and am curious if this is normal: I did my wife's XC90 (which was 3 days old at the time) in late December and...