Poor beading with 2 coats of Fuzion

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After doing a 2 step polish with 106FF and PO85RD, I applied 2 coats of Fuzion waiting until the next day to apply the second coat. It rained for the first time, and the beading is horrible. Now, there about a week of built of pollen on the car. Does pollen eat away at the wax? Or is this poor bead normal? Beading is in large blobs instead of tighter drops?
 
i have heard that fusion sheets water. more then beeds it . but i havent tryed it personaly yet..
 
I have 2 coats of fuzion on my Jeep and its still beads nicely after 2 months.
 
Fuzion beads nicely, I have noticed though, that with a coat of pollen, the wax is still there, but the pollen inhibits the beading a bit, but washing the pollen off will help.

Or you can wash and just throw another coat on there.
 
One grain of pollen breaks the staic pressure in a bead of water causing it to "mate" or latch onto the next bead. They eventually form groups or puddles rather then beads. This is the condition you are witnessing. Pollen will always cause this condition when it breaks the static pressure.
 
alowe said:
After doing a 2 step polish with 106FF and PO85RD, I applied 2 coats of Fuzion waiting until the next day to apply the second coat. It rained for the first time, and the beading is horrible. Now, there about a week of built of pollen on the car. Does pollen eat away at the wax? Or is this poor bead normal? Beading is in large blobs instead of tighter drops?
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Wash it and I'd bet that you will have tight beads.
 
I haven't used Fuzion so I can't comment on its beading/sheeting properties but I must say, as glamorous as beading is for us all to see, I have really come to appreciate a products ability to simply shield off contaminant particles from enbedding themselves to my paint.

There are a handful of sealants I have discovered that offer very low levels of beading even after freshly applied. However, during a much nneded mit to paint session, those same sealants tend to glide all foreign contamints off the paint effortlessly. I have a hunch Fuzion is no different here, as I trust the testimony from some of those who love the stuff.

How slick does your paint feel with the back of your knuckles?

When you wash it the first time, please let us know how well you wash medium glides and removes dust/any contaminant present.

Beading is great but some of my favorites are almost null in that category, but also protect for months while bringing much pleasure to the washing process.
 
I took your advice, and now when I was my hands, the water just
glides off the back of my knucles.
 
Awesome img, now try using that same lotion and handsoap on your car.
 
pollen can be quite abrasive indeed ...

While some suggest sealants over nubas do to their benefits, one detraction I find all to often is birdie doo-doo scaring the paint when a sealant is only protection. Its almost as if waxes keep it above the surface.
 
How about topping the Fuzion with a lawyer of DGPS or 4* UPP? Then top again with Fuzion.

Perhaps it is the polen. I ran it on the highway through a downpour. The damn pollen is still on the car. Slick still, but still sticking to the Fuzion. BTW, what is the durability of Fuzion?
 
killrwheels@autogeek said:
pollen can be quite abrasive indeed ...
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I wonder how it affects beading in general. I had been running a wax test and the mighty 476s seems no better than any other in terms of beading after almost 2 months...maybe the 476 can take the salt up north but not the pollen down south.
 
Well the pollen was HORRIBLE this year up in the Northeast....imagine a week full of sun and a THICK coat of pollen followed by daily rain for the last 8-10 days...thats what its been like in NJ :mad:
So far, once the pollen washed off the car after the 3rd or 4th day of rain, paint still beads up nicely. Whats DGPS or 4* UPP? (sorry still learning abbreviations) LOL
:cheers:
 
Not just pollen but dirt and dust in general will inhibit beading.

Wash the car
 
Dsoto87 said:
Not just pollen but dirt and dust in general will inhibit beading.

Wash the car
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I tend to agree. Car beads quite well at first rain right after a detail session, but after a week of driving and real world dirt/contaminents and it doesnt bead quite as well till washed clean.
 
Last week I put on a coat of Collinite 845 on my car and a coat of DG 111 on my wifes van . It is raining now , my wifes van is beading like crazy, my car is not. I park under some trees my wife doesent. Could it be tree sap of pollen.
 
If you park under trees, I know some trees will give off something that will kill any beading/slickness in paint after a rain.
 
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