Fuzion Coats

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Is there any problem with applying a third coat of Fuzion or is it the consensus that after 2 coats you have already hit the diminished return barrier?

Just curious, I have 2 coats on my car now and it has just sat in the garage due to rain all week.
 
An interesting question. I doubt Fuzion is any different than any other wax in the case of coats. I find that a wax job really doesn't start looking nice until the third coat. 2 coats instead of 1, double the wax,3- 50% more, 4- 33% more, 5-25% more, 6- 20% more,7- 16-17% more, 8- 12-13% more wax. I wouldn't go with more than 3 or 4 coats on a street car, because it's too much work. Why don't you just try putting another coat on a section of the car and see if you notice a difference? If you notice a difference on your car, keep applying coats until you don't see a difference.
 
Never seen any benefit from more than 2 coats of a wax , likely just making sure uniform coverage when applying the second coat.
 
You are just removing the previous layer because of the solvents in the nuba. If you must put on more than 2 coats. Spray the panel with ice water. This will harden the existing nuba and help dissolve the solvents in the nuba being applied. It's called spit shinning.
 
Rsurfer said:
You are just removing the previous layer because of the solvents in the nuba. If you must put on more than 2 coats. Spray the panel with ice water. This will harden the existing nuba and help dissolve the solvents in the nuba being applied. It's called spit shinning.
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I'm not so sure. I asked this question over at Detailing World a few months back and received this response from Dom Colbeck of Dodo Juice (aka Dodo Factory):

Well a lot depends on the exact substance and I am just a link to the chemists, not a chemist myself, but:

- what you are applying is a product in solution (ie product and solvent mix). When the product cures the solvent carrier evaporates off and the product that is left behind can harden and bond with itself/the surface it is applied to.

- just because you add fresh solvent to the surface doesn't necessarily mean this new solid/cured/bonded coating is going to redissolve... it may have had heat to dissolve it in the first place, it may have been in a powdered form or whatever. The cured product will be different from that raw ingredient even if it it just a thin and cured coating of the product, rather than a loose powder.

- so when solvent is reapplied, if it is the right kind and applied in the right way, there is a chance of at least some of the product redissolving, for sure. But the reality is that it is a solvent/product mix (so not pure solvent) being applied, in a very thin form, and it will not be raw enough to have much effect.

Get a cloth and some water and try to remove the Dulux emulsion on your walls - it is a water based paint, so surely water as a solvent will make it wet and remove it? You'll find it doesn't - or doesn't easily. Cured/dried products have different properties to when they were in solution.
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I wonder if any scientific testing has been done that addresses this question.

Cheers,
Al
 
Al, I believe the statement you posted to be true. If the previous wax is cured, then the next application of wax should not remove much of the previous layer. I was speaking of applying several layers at once.
 
The last layer has cured for 6 days now. I will do another layer tomorrow morning and report back in.
 
I added a third coat and to tell the tuth I did not see a lot of difference. But I feel a lot better after working in the car. ;)
 
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