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Some nice beading after a rain shower the other day! Blessed!

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

Unfortunately this is highly dependent on where you live. Cities for example have a lot of air pollution and can frequently produce acid rain

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...

In my opinion there's two options. Be one lucky SOB and live in an area without hard water lol, or use a product that's more like a traditional wax. The logic being a traditional wax will take the sacrificial brunt of water spotting and then easily wipe off, taking the water spot etching with...

Haha I mean water spots that don't come out after washing are easily the #1 reason for ceramic coating callbacks. Sure, if you wash your car relatively soon the water spots should come right out, but that's not always the case and it's not realistic to expect every customer to baby their...

This thread is too funny. All I see, and probably many others as well, are a million water spots. Give me a product with chemical/uv protection that leaves paint incredibly smooth and glossy, while also having zero hydrophobic properties. I almost feel guilty these days selling ceramic...

Meguiar's professional line of products (non paint correction related) have always met or exceeded my expectations, but I can't look past their 32oz bottle/labeling quality. It's pure laziness to me when a company can't get such a simple thing down. Labels I like product labels for my 32oz...

I kind of accepted that when I initially posed the question, but you never know what kind of answers you get if you don't try right? I'm in the middle of testing products right now. I don't want to get off track from the main question here of how toppers bond to coatings, but to answer your...

I think "isolate" might be a strong word here. Just too many variables unfortunately when you use a daily driver as a test bed. My main concern is whether a topper can actually bond to a ceramic coating and provide additional slickness and gloss than what the base already provides. I don't...

That'd be amazing Axle. I'll try to see if any of the more technical detailing channels on YouTube have that testing capability. I do plan on utilizing the following test that will hopefully give more clarity towards the bonding capabilities of toppers: 1) Apply the ceramic coating I'm...

Thank you for the well organized reply. Much appreciated. My main goal here however is to try to gain a technical understanding of how toppers can actually bond to a ceramic coating. Just using basic logic, one would think a ceramic coating would inherently repel or weakly bond with any sort...

Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if someone can help me understand the logic behind ceramic coating "toppers" that are supposed to add additional gloss or slickness. My question is - how do these toppers bond to a ceramic coating? If a ceramic coating rejects chemicals and liquids, I don't...