Hi Mike , Big fan of you and new member to this forum..
Welcome to AutogeekOnline! :welcome:
I coated one of my relative car with Carpro UK 3.0 coating. After 6 months, when I checked ceramic coating, I found that there are swirls marks and some water spots on coating.
Coating is now only 6 months age and how do I clean out those swirls and water spots?
Can i use cleaner wax?
Keeping a swirl-free finish swirl-free is really difficult to do. The most you can do is everything you can do and it all starts with,
Only using contaminant-free microfiber towels, wash mitts, drying towels, etc. Anything that touches the paint - if it's contaminated, the contaminants will scratch the coating. This is why I wrote this article and made the video you see here,
How, why & when to inspect your microfiber towels when detailing cars
I would say most people I meet do NOT have any protocols in place to keep their good towels, mitts and drying towels CLEAN after use. Thus they get contaminated. The contaminants so not all wash out but instead bury and lodge into the towel, mitt or drying towel and the cycle repeats.
I've been showing a super simple way to keep used towels, mitts, etc. clean until you're ready to wash and that's to have a dedicated clean bucket in your garage and keep the inside of IT clean.
Make sense?
As for water spots? This is always a tough problem for a lot of people because there is so much pollution in our water, both city water and well water. In fact, I finally wrote an article to put the focus on the root cause of water spots.
What's in the water?
or Essense Plus from Carpro?
I have not used this product or not used it much, don't remember?
There is this product option from CarPro and it claims to remove light defects while leaving behind SiO2 protect that you can coat over with a coating.
CarPro Essence Xtreme Gloss Enhancer 500 ml.
It might be worth a try using a soft foam polishing or finishing pad.
If i use cleaner wax , swirls might be gone but does it effect ceramic coating? or what should i do?
Thanks,
For over a decade now I've been answering questions like this by putting the question, (the equation), into EXTREME analogies. (I will make this idea an article)
Will using a one-step cleaner/wax over a ceramic coated finish ADD more ceramic coating to the finish?
The answer is "no". What's the opposite of the word ADD? Subtract.
Like others have already commented and I'll build on, ANY one-step product, cleaner/wax or cleaner/sealant or ceramic/aio - if it works at all, (that means it can remove paint), it will remove coating.
So if you want to make the paint perfect again, repeat the prep steps and re-coat. If you do not think the car owner is capable of maintaining a perfect finish, let it go. OR - simply use a one-step product and then stick a fork in it, call it done and kick it out the door.
