Hello, I'm somewhat new. I joined not long ago but never posted. I'm just a hobbyist that likes to keep my personal rides clean.
My daily is an 07 Ram 1500 that I haven' taken the best care of. My play toy is an 09 CTSV that the previous owner didn't take the best care of. My wife is in between daily drivers so as soon as we find something it will get the full treatment.
My Cquartz question.
I recently decided to try a coating. CQUK. I wanted to use it on my truck first because it's outside 24/7 and gets the most use. I cleaned, clayed and polished it with Meguiars M83 on my Rupes 15. Only one step because it's huge and it's silver. I can't see a swirl in the paint in the best light anyways. But I wanted to get the grime out of the paint and get a good base for the coating. After polishing, I wiped the whole truck down with CarPro Eraser, then on to the coating. It was a 60-70 degree day and other than the roof, I did it all inside my garage. The coating seemed to go on well, I worked it in 2' square sections for a couple minutes, gave it a minute or two to flash and buffed it off with the suede micro fiber. It took me about 2 hours to do one coat on the whole truck. I followed up after that 2 hours with a coat of reload. That was 3 weeks ago. I sprayed some water on a couple days later just to see how well the water ran off and it was great.
Yesterday I washed the truck for the first time since then. Rinsed, foam cannoned with Meg's gold class, rinsed then hand washed with gold class on a microfiber mitt. I blew it dry which seemed to be more work that I thought it would be. Then dried the remaining water with a plush microfiber. A few hours later I was checking the paint and it seemed very "dry". It was squeaky like there was no protection. The water beads on it, but does not run off. It seems like the coating is gone and the water beads because the paint is polished. Some areas are still slightly slick and some are "squeaky". I hit it with reload and it seems slick again, but that's probably only because of the reload.
Is it possible for it to come off that quick? Or is it more likely I buffed to quickly after coating? On silver it's extremely hard to see it flash.
My daily is an 07 Ram 1500 that I haven' taken the best care of. My play toy is an 09 CTSV that the previous owner didn't take the best care of. My wife is in between daily drivers so as soon as we find something it will get the full treatment.
My Cquartz question.
I recently decided to try a coating. CQUK. I wanted to use it on my truck first because it's outside 24/7 and gets the most use. I cleaned, clayed and polished it with Meguiars M83 on my Rupes 15. Only one step because it's huge and it's silver. I can't see a swirl in the paint in the best light anyways. But I wanted to get the grime out of the paint and get a good base for the coating. After polishing, I wiped the whole truck down with CarPro Eraser, then on to the coating. It was a 60-70 degree day and other than the roof, I did it all inside my garage. The coating seemed to go on well, I worked it in 2' square sections for a couple minutes, gave it a minute or two to flash and buffed it off with the suede micro fiber. It took me about 2 hours to do one coat on the whole truck. I followed up after that 2 hours with a coat of reload. That was 3 weeks ago. I sprayed some water on a couple days later just to see how well the water ran off and it was great.
Yesterday I washed the truck for the first time since then. Rinsed, foam cannoned with Meg's gold class, rinsed then hand washed with gold class on a microfiber mitt. I blew it dry which seemed to be more work that I thought it would be. Then dried the remaining water with a plush microfiber. A few hours later I was checking the paint and it seemed very "dry". It was squeaky like there was no protection. The water beads on it, but does not run off. It seems like the coating is gone and the water beads because the paint is polished. Some areas are still slightly slick and some are "squeaky". I hit it with reload and it seems slick again, but that's probably only because of the reload.
Is it possible for it to come off that quick? Or is it more likely I buffed to quickly after coating? On silver it's extremely hard to see it flash.
