Can you apply Collinite TOO thin?

[parshooter]

Apply by hand, NO WAY you can put it on too thin. :laughing:

 

[Setec Astronomy]

I decided to use Megs Quik Detailer on the car and rewax with more Collinite.

Tonight at work it was still awesome outside, but then we got hit with a torrential downpour, thunder, lighting ... the whole works. When I went outside for a break, it had stopped raining and I walked over to my car. There was the awesome beading that Collinite is known for. If I had my wife's phone, I'd have taken some pics, but let me just say that from *my* experience, you can apply Collinite too thin (but it ain't easy to).

I'm not sure you really answered the question of whether it was too thin or if Dawn removed it or added something that killed the beading. Perhaps the real test would have been to see if using the QD as you did, without applying more wax, restored the beading, and whether that effect lasted more than a day or two (or through a good downpour) as you might expect just from the QD.

 

[Jaretr1]

I once heard Mike Stoops say it the best...chemistry dictates there is no way you can apply wax of any sort to thin. If ANY of it is making contact with the surface, it is enough. Any more than the bare minimum of product is simply wasted as only whats needed makes contact and bonds to the surface.

Its not the fault of thin application or the wax itself here, probably dawn. People use Dawn to strip wax because after all, its designed to cut through tough grease on dishes.