Best new coating to resist toweling marks?

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I'm going to try a coating and wanted to know if any of them are more protective of toweling marks than the other. AG has the Opti-coat and CQuartz products and I am aware of a couple of other products on the market.

Would you please share your experience with the available options, as I hope to take advantage of the Labor Day and Ivan's sales this weekend?

Thanks!
 
I havent tried CQ yet but OC is harder than clear and thus less susceptible to towel marring.
 
I have OC on my car, it still marrs as easily as it did before the application.
 
Old Tiger said:
That is surprising D! Did you get some Mothers Foam Core towels yet?
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Yeah I was pretty disappointed as that was the main reason I applied the coating. I will say that after a couple months it did get better and I found a towel (cant mention here) that wont mar it.
 
I have put OG on one of my cars that has a very soft SS paint. It has reduced swirls and towling marks by 75%. I am happy with it's properties. I don't think that it is intended to eliminate these types of issues totally but it certainly does make a huge difference IMO.
 
Dr Oldz said:
I don't think that it is intended to eliminate these types of issues totally but it certainly does make a huge difference IMO.
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I agree to a point but it should resist marring from a MF towel if its a hard as its claimed to be.
 
Dubbin1 said:
I agree to a point but it should resist marring from a MF towel if its a hard as its claimed to be.
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Hi D!!! How are you? I agree with you as it should resist MF marks and I have found that it does but not 100% I also think it needs 3 months to fully harden(I am not sure of this tho).

Another thing to consider is that it will still maintain some properties of the underlying clear or paint.... Take a piece of tin foil and place it on a hard counter and press on it, then take another piece of foil and put it on your sofa and press.........U know where I am going here?
 
Dr Oldz said:
Hi D!!! How are you? I agree with you as it should resist MF marks and I have found that it does but not 100% I also think it needs 3 months to fully harden(I am not sure of this tho).

Another thing to consider is that it will still maintain some properties of the underlying clear or paint.... Take a piece of tin foil and place it on a hard counter and press on it, then take another piece of foil and put it on your sofa and press.........U know where I am going here?
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Doing great Jim, and you?

Yes, 3 months is the same thing I have read and it does seemed to have gotten a little better after that amount of time.

Yeah I see where you are going with the tin foil and I do understand. The paint on my car is super soft so I don't expect everyone to have the same issues I am having. Of all the cars I have put it on so far mine is the only one I am still having problems with...
 
Doing great also. I wonder if OG would be better suited for you then? I think it is a bit tougher than OC but that would be one for Chris to answer...
 
In all honesty I don't think anything is going to make it much better short of a repaint. I wish it was like the wifes DD, I swear I could wash that with an SOS pad and not mar it :D
 
Thank you for your recommendations.
 
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