I enjoy trying new products. It's claims alone will surely put it on my radar. I'm a coatings fan but in my experience with them you are incredibly lucky to get the application right the first time if you have no experience with coatings. If someone can take a person who has never used a coating and can truly apply it and walk away with excellent results, they won't be able too make it fast enough. Being a DG product I should know better than to doubt any claim they make but coatings are a different animal
Case in point:
My daughter (thanks to the grace of God) just started a new job at a downtown law firm. In such, she found herself in need of either spending some money on her 06 G6 GTP Coupe or just going ahead and buying a new vehicle. (The G6 had 110,000 miles on it and has started burning coolant the last year, having to add some every 2~3 months, along with adding more oil than one would think.)
So Saturday she buys a 2014 KIA Sportage, in (new for 2014) "Black Cherry". Quite an interesting color actually. It looks solid black till you are LITERALLY right up on it. Then it has a very VERY fine metallic structure with hints of tobacco/bronze-ish color to it.
I told her to tell the dealership NOT to wash it, just to bring it to the house.
Sunday she comes over, complete with a MASSIVE dose of DISO's! That and unbelievable RIDS!!!!
Fast forward 10+ hours and *SHE* is applying the DG coating to her new truck.
I do not use the foam applicator pads, never have, not even with PBL. I always use the suede 4"x4" microfiber wrapped around a sponge. (AKA Cquartz application method.)
Bottom line though; is that she had never installed a coating before. I did the first area on the hood, showing her how it'd "flash" and not to go too thick, just apply product to the cloth, not the panel, and keep doing overlapping strokes.
I stressed that she do smaller sections at a time, (maybe 24"x24") then go back with a GOOD microfiber and level any problems/high spots.
The application however is very easy, very straightforward, and it's easy to see the product 'flash'. Actually it seems to flash more visibly than PBL does, (which makes it easier to see any high spots). IMO the foam pads would play into using considerably more product, and the resulting application would not lay down as evenly as the suede microfiber method BUT..... given any reasonable care I would think that even a 'newbie' would be able to conquer it without any reservations.
FWIW, I have NO IDEA what use that microfiber that comes in the "kit" would be good for, other than glass.
I know, there is NO WAY this side of God's Blue Heaven I'd put it on paint that I just spent 10~12 man hours (
or more) polishing! :nomore:
In an unrelated topic the Squeaky Clean doesn't stick to the inside of the bottle when you shake it up, it just runs down the side and settles, I've never seen a product do this before.
I guess Squeaky Clean is just an extra measure to get the paint clean, even after wash/paint decontamination/polish. Because it came in the kit I used it and I'm glad I did, very easy to use, no issues applying/removing and NO dusting either!
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That is an AMAZING thing going on in that bottle isn't it? :dunno: I've never seen anything act like that! It's "plasti-phobic". :laughing:
Lots of questions, informative but some questions were answered already, inparticular the one about cure time and AW.
2oz to do an average mid-sied car, that seems like a lot IMO. I have a very small car and the bottle seems pretty full after using the coating and I know I used more than I was supposed to.
I like the info on adding hardness and scratch resistance, GREAT question!
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WOW... I can't imagine a situation where you'd use 2oz of the coating on ANYTHING, even a Ford Excursion!
Even if you covered all the plastic, glass, you name it.
I'd bet that less coating was used on the Sportage than "squeaky clean" and the latter we used at best ¾ ounce. (
The bottle was cracked at the top when it arrived and had leaked a bit inside the clear zip pouch.)
I need to get a S&S thread up on it, but need some more photos. It was midnight Sunday when we finished and she had to get outta' here in a hurry. That new job at the law office on Peachtree Road doesn't care that she was up all night making her car shiny.
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I *might* be able to put up a thread this weekend. :dunno: When she comes down (
to see her Daddy)
I'll get her to shoot some shots with my camera. Seems I've got 4 hours of back surgery come zero dark thirty Thursday morning.
Don't expect I'll be feeling like sitting and typing too much come Saturday.
If I can though, I'll at least try to get a couple shots in this thread if nothing else. (
We'll see.....)
