Hello from the armpit of New Mexico!

Why would he pay so much money,take a flight ,stay at hotel missed days to choose a polisher ,deosnt make logical sense,Buy a flex like you mentioned if u don't like it return it.
 
Danny9447537 said:
I'm pretty excited to receive my Flex and thanks for the helpful article! My vehicle doesn't have very many swirls so would I still use these products? BTW Spangdahlem is my dream base so hopefully I get orders over there lol.
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You can start off with a light polish such as SF4000 from Menzerna or Wolfgang Finishing Glaze combined with a white Hybrid pad as a test spot to see how it reacts with the swirls at hand.

That would be great!
 
As all will tell you, swirling comes from washing. I know all too well, that by trying to "cheat" and with even doing a 2-bucket wash with grit guards, that just hosing down the vehicles with a Garden Hose first is usually not good enough.

There's not enough pressure to do that great a job to remove bonded dusts and dirt first. A high pressure washer, or at least a trip to the local spray wash helps considerably lessen swirling. It's a never ending battle here.

While my daily driver really isn't worth much, even though I keep it pretty clean, a good high quality Paint Coating seems like a logical choice for here. My Tahoe wears CQuartz UK, and after running full circle with everything else under the sun, this Coating has proven to me to be more swirl-mar resistant that any other products used before it.

You essentially then need only one other protectant product to maintain CQuartz, Carpro Reload.
 
But as many will tell you with any of the highly durable coatings out there from the likes of Carpro, Optimum, 22ple, etc, and you like waxing-sealing your vehicle with a myriad of different products on a regular basis, then a coating is not the product for you.

Of course with vehicle care, there's more than just Paint.
 
MarkD51 said:
As all will tell you, swirling comes from washing. I know all too well, that by trying to "cheat" and with even doing a 2-bucket wash with grit guards, that just hosing down the vehicles with a Garden Hose first is usually not good enough.

There's not enough pressure to do that great a job to remove bonded dusts and dirt first. A high pressure washer, or at least a trip to the local spray wash helps considerably lessen swirling. It's a never ending battle here.

While my daily driver really isn't worth much, even though I keep it pretty clean, a good high quality Paint Coating seems like a logical choice for here. My Tahoe wears CQuartz UK, and after running full circle with everything else under the sun, this Coating has proven to me to be more swirl-mar resistant that any other products used before it.

You essentially then need only one other protectant product to maintain CQuartz, Carpro Reload.
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How easy was it to apply CQuartz UK? I've been looking at those coatings and thinking about applying it myself in the near future. Does it significantly reduce the impact of rock chips?
 
Mike@DedicatedPerfection said:
You can start off with a light polish such as SF4000 from Menzerna or Wolfgang Finishing Glaze combined with a white Hybrid pad as a test spot to see how it reacts with the swirls at hand.

That would be great!
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Are hybrid pads the best pads to use on the Flex 3401?
 
Danny9447537 said:
How easy was it to apply CQuartz UK? I've been looking at those coatings and thinking about applying it myself in the near future. Does it significantly reduce the impact of rock chips?
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While some folks have troubles with some coatings, I had absolutely none with CQuartz UK. It went on as easy as pie, so well that it looked like I didn't even need to wipe after with an MF towel to do any leveling-smoothing. It literally went on like laying down a sheet of glass on top of the paint.

It was the prior prep work of polishing and wipe down prep with Carpro Eraser that was the most physically taxing to get to the point of applying the coating. I in fact split the Application, the entire Roof the first day, and then all other body panels on the Tahoe the next.

I'm going by memory, but I believe temps were at about 78-80 degrees that day, overcast-clouding, and humidity was a little high a the time because the possibility of rain was looming, and in fact a short light sprinkle did fall in the middle of coating, and luckily I was under my carport, and that it ceased. An hour later, I then applied Carpro Reload to temporarily protect the coating.

As for this coating reducing the severity of damage from rock chips, I have no scientific data to back an accurate answer, but from a guess I would say probably not.

Reason I will say this, is because I don't see a type of product like a coating "softening" the paint at all, like a conventional wax might with it's carrier oils-solvents which probably soften the paint to some degree. As for such actually happening with today's modern clearcoats, of the degree of such softening, again I'm a bit unsure?

I will say without any revocation, that a product such as CQuartz UK will offer much greater resistance to wash induced marring-swirling than any other more conventional wax, or sealant that I ever used in my life bar none. With other, easier to apply coatings such as Pinnacle, or DP, I did not notice this degree of resistance to wash induced swirling as CQuartz possesses. This product turns hard as a rock. Applicators, and often too, wipe down towels used with this product commonly have to be discarded.

I've used both the DP and Pinnacle Diamond Coatings, neither will turn an applicator, or a towel rock hard like CQuartz.

With an open bottle of CQuartz, it turns into a clear rock hard slug of material, and you'd have difficulty shattering this slug with a hammer.

If rock chips seems to be a major headache, some might suggest one of those clear bras on the front of the vehicle?
 
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