Had a bit of a melt-down today. I ‘think’ I’m on the right path. Guidance / advice / encouragement appreciated.
Garage Queen. PPG Base / Clear Jet Black.
I corrected the bejeezus out of this paint last season and applied 2 coats of Wolfgang Spray Ceramic Sealant. This is the liquid in the spray bottle but ceramic based. Not the heavy serum in the syringe.
Recently, the car went into the shop for lots of small mechanical projects that were just one step beyond my skill set. The guys were VERY careful with the car - but black is just so damn unforgiving. No worries. I had planned on running one round of something like CarPro Essence to smooth about any light marring and add another layer of WG Spray Ceramic.
WRONG! As I worked the car with Essence, it looked fantastic under a normal light bulb, but under my Scangrip light, I could see this weird milky, hazy, spotty pale blue ‘film’ which I believe to be the Wolfgang Spray Ceramic Coating being ‘partially’ physically removed. So I step up to Rupes ‘Fine’ polish - the gray product in the Yellow tipped bottle with the firmer Yellow pad, and it is removing some more of this weird milky hazy crap, but its slow going. And the finish it leaves behind isnt as sharp and clear as I want for this Jet Black cruise night car. So I went over those sections with the Rupes Ultra Fine in the White tipped bottle with the White pad and finally, those sections look like I hoped they would - but there are still random, scattered areas of that milky filmy spotty mess that I find the Ultra Fine Rupes just isn’t removing.
So - I think I am down for a very thorough round of the entire car with a firmer Yellow Rupes Pad and the Rupes ‘Fine’ polish before then sharpening the reflections with the White pad and the White Rupes Ultra Fine polish.
I just want to be sure that what I am running into is just another day at the office when correcting a car that has a ceramic coating on it.
My 2 cents: if I cannot afford to go with Self-Healing Feynlab or equivalent, then I am NEVER - EVER putting another consumer grade ceramic coating on another car I own. Consumer grade ceramics will still show marring and fine toweling scratches just like the factory clear coat would. The only difference is the removal process of a consumer grade Ceramic coating in order to get the paint crystal clear again is literally its own hell.
Garage Queen. PPG Base / Clear Jet Black.
I corrected the bejeezus out of this paint last season and applied 2 coats of Wolfgang Spray Ceramic Sealant. This is the liquid in the spray bottle but ceramic based. Not the heavy serum in the syringe.
Recently, the car went into the shop for lots of small mechanical projects that were just one step beyond my skill set. The guys were VERY careful with the car - but black is just so damn unforgiving. No worries. I had planned on running one round of something like CarPro Essence to smooth about any light marring and add another layer of WG Spray Ceramic.
WRONG! As I worked the car with Essence, it looked fantastic under a normal light bulb, but under my Scangrip light, I could see this weird milky, hazy, spotty pale blue ‘film’ which I believe to be the Wolfgang Spray Ceramic Coating being ‘partially’ physically removed. So I step up to Rupes ‘Fine’ polish - the gray product in the Yellow tipped bottle with the firmer Yellow pad, and it is removing some more of this weird milky hazy crap, but its slow going. And the finish it leaves behind isnt as sharp and clear as I want for this Jet Black cruise night car. So I went over those sections with the Rupes Ultra Fine in the White tipped bottle with the White pad and finally, those sections look like I hoped they would - but there are still random, scattered areas of that milky filmy spotty mess that I find the Ultra Fine Rupes just isn’t removing.
So - I think I am down for a very thorough round of the entire car with a firmer Yellow Rupes Pad and the Rupes ‘Fine’ polish before then sharpening the reflections with the White pad and the White Rupes Ultra Fine polish.
I just want to be sure that what I am running into is just another day at the office when correcting a car that has a ceramic coating on it.
My 2 cents: if I cannot afford to go with Self-Healing Feynlab or equivalent, then I am NEVER - EVER putting another consumer grade ceramic coating on another car I own. Consumer grade ceramics will still show marring and fine toweling scratches just like the factory clear coat would. The only difference is the removal process of a consumer grade Ceramic coating in order to get the paint crystal clear again is literally its own hell.
