Gloss coat how many CC ?

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Hello all,

Looking for some feedback for those that have used Gloss Coat, how many CC's did you use ?

The car is a Kia Optima with a pano sunroof and i'm not sure if I should go with the 10cc pack or 20cc pack?

I plan to do two coats.

Thanks everyone and have a great new year !
 
3-6cc depending on car size. 1 coat is all that's needed as long as you ensure even coverage. Anything more is pointless.
 
Some people indicate they coat an entire vehicle with 4cc, seems to be some debate on this, I have no idea, I have only used it once.
 

The full 10cc...


If you are "coating" a car with less you are doing yourself and your customer a dis-service.
 
I was able to do two coats on a two door Porsche with the 10cc tube and very little left. You should be able to get enough coverage from the 10cc and at least do a second coat on the horizontal panels.
 
I used 9 CCs of Gloss Coat on my minivan for one coat. Looking back in hindsight, I used too little because I was trying to avoid high spots.
I recommend that you buy the 20 cc syringe because you mentioned two coats, and you can use the extra that you might have for door jambs, wheels, etc.
 
So when doing coatings is it better to do 2 coats? Does it layer or does 2 coats just help to insure full coverage?
 
As reference I used 4cc for one coat (paint only). My car size is between a Kia Forte and Optima.
 
runrun411 said:
So when doing coatings is it better to do 2 coats? Does it layer or does 2 coats just help to insure full coverage?
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It layers - so it makes sense to do 2 coats if you have enough product. 3 or 4cc maybe way too thin if you ask me.
 
You will have plenty with 10cc on that kia. I just did a 2010 Camaro and used about 8cc's on it. That is with 2 coats on the car.
 
I used 3-4cc on a Aston Martin DB7 Vantage. And I did a lot of overlapping of layers during the application process and being that the paint was dark blue it wasn't difficult to see the coverage during application.
 
Are you all using the provided blue sponge or the microsuede applicators?
 

As a note, and part of another conversation I have been having in another area about coatings:



I bought a 10cc syringe of Opti-Gloss Coat simply to do the wheels on my GTI. The wheels are very simple and easy to detail so there wasn't any wasted product from intricate details I had a hard time with. Just for the wheels and calipers I used the ENTIRE 10cc of product. I didn't have any "high spot" issue I simply applied it as thick and uniform as possible. So based on this I have to step back and ask how anyone does all the paint and/or wheels on a care with 10cc or less of product. In my mind it just doesn't make sense.




Example of my wheels.
2015-volkswagen-gti-wheels-static.jpg


 
Thanks everyone for the responses.

It seems 10cc should be plenty to use, Optimum have also confirmed the same thing.

I did buy the carpro foam and suede applicator which supposedly makes a big difference.
 
I used 9cc with the supplied applicator on a Tesla Model S, including the Wheels
 
jaimz11 said:
Are you all using the provided blue sponge or the microsuede applicators?
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I used the provided blue sponge, but what I did was cut off the ends of the circle along the edges of the finger "loop" on the back so as to make a rectangular applicator about half the size of the original. Prefer this to suede.


TroyScherer said:

As a note, and part of another conversation I have been having in another area about coatings:
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Just for the wheels and calipers I used the ENTIRE 10cc of product. I didn't have any "high spot" issue I simply applied it as thick and uniform as possible. So based on this I have to step back and ask how anyone does all the paint and/or wheels on a care with 10cc or less of product. In my mind it just doesn't make sense.

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If I used 10cc of gloss coat in a single coat on those wheels, I'd have to wipe off a decent amount of product as high spots (after waiting 2-3 minutes). I know this because I had to wipe off high spots on every single panel I applied to, despite only using 5cc for the first coat. Not sure how much product remained in your applicator or how long you wait for the product to flash off.

By stating you applied it as thick as possible, I think you are implying that you were trying to create the thickest (in terms of microns) coating as you could on your wheels. That is a debate for another thread and certainly a pet topic of yours. I don't have anything constructive to add to that discussion.

What I can say, is that using 10cc to coat an entire car the size of a GTI would be pretty easy. The product spreads far. You can see a film covering the entire surface you just applied the product to, albeit a thin one. If you were to swipe your finger across the paint a few seconds after application, you could see that the film didn't wipe off, but rather was smeared in the direction your finger traveled. Also, particularly on darker paints, you can see the entire area "rainbow" after application. Then it starts to disappear.

Whether this is creating a sufficiently thick coat or not, I cannot answer. I'll leave that to you or qualified chemists. But you pretty much answered your own question about why some only use 5cc and you used 10cc on your wheels. You applied the product as thick as you could.
 
I didn't think about cutting down the foam applicator. Surely that would limit the amount "absorbed" into the sponge and make for a little less waste. I'll give it a try.
 
Chris Thomas said:
Shoot for 10cc use on medium cars. 7-8 is ok. 3-4 is too thin.
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Does it matter how the 10cc is used, i.e. one thick coat vs. two thin coats? I've seen info elsewhere that applying it thick doesn't matter because you are just having to wipe off high spot anyway.

Ultimately I used almost the entire tube, just not in one pass.

Your post also suggests to me that a van for example should get 20cc even if a coat can be done with a 10cc tube.
 
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