Today was the first time i used CQUK... I have used many different coatings before, none have ever given me this much of a hard time.
Anyways,
1. Eraser Wipe down
2. Few drops and apply, separated my hood into 3's. After each section i done i wipe off.
So when i go wipe it off, it'd look good with my T8 lighting in my garage.
But when i hold my Flex swirl finder light, i can see the coating smearing as i wipe, however they are SUPER HARD to buff off cleanly.
I was told that is the cquk is when is curing, so i go and proceed with other panels, and check back about an hour later. The "smearing" was still there when i tried wiping it.....
Needless to say, i SPEND HOURS to get all that smearing off my paint. Hopefully i didn't remove the coating by wiping it so many times.
lol
Welcome to my world!!
Corey really did help me a lot, really +++
I put cquk last year, huge amount of streaks, but in on cloudy weather, my car shines a lot!
This year with Corey advice, I redid the right side of the car, and it was a lot better! but the hassle and everything made me work so much time on the car that my gf broke up with me
Right now, i still havent redone the other parts.
Anyways, if you want perfection, I advice u that u need to be fast, like really fast, as fas as racing against the time, after applying at 25 degrees, you wait 0 second and u wipe it off. And you keep wiping it off. I make sure to take 5-10 minutes just to wipe off 1 panel (such as a door). It is almost perfect after looking at all possible angles, but then my mf got cquked and hardened, so I have to throw it away.
Another error from first aplication: I used the suede mf they provided me, it is good BUT it was clearly not enough for the whole car (obviously, no one knew at that time it wasn't enough). So i used the same suede to wipe off the whole car, and at a point, instead of wiping off, it starts I start putting streak. I never thought CQUK streak would be impossible to remove...
At last, my 2nd application was great imo, 90-95% streak free vs 60% (first application). However, It could have been 100% streak free with 1 application.
from my experience, a 2nd coat (even 1 or 2 hours at 25 degress), will mess up the first coat, and causes terrible streak. And you can't remove the 2nd coat without removing the first coat. Then there will be color issue, as a spot is darker than the surrounder areas.
So my best advice is 1 coat. But that is not yet over, reload CAN ALSO CAUSE STREAKS, and that will piss u off, because reload is last step, and their streaks will make u go crazy, because to remove them, ur removing all CQUK (2 coats).
Unlike polishing, when u a small spot of cquk removed or reload removed, you need to remove all cquk from the panel and to restart all over, that is the only way to have an uniform color, at least on a black paint. So here comes the polishing, then the tape again, and you will end up having no more mf doing the job.
What is eve more chaos is redoing some frame of the car, especially the 1 piece frame from the front to the back of the car, all over the doors. yet, polishing that curve areas spashes the chemical everywhere, another nightmare!
It is not hard, if you do not have 5500k light or cloudy weather, there is no way for you to apply cquk flawlessly, because streaks only appear during those lights range.
