2wookies
06-12-2017, 11:43 AM
So did my first wash post coating, man that water just flew off the paint!
https://youtu.be/1YYaJ0-gdXw
After wash applied Reload, the directions are vague on the bottle, so I took the same approach as I did with CQuartz UK a little goes a long way. Sprayed direct to clean cool paint in the garage and buffed off. Now it rained today and the water was just kind of sitting on the paint, had some time on lunch so went down the highway to see if the 70mph sprint would maybe push the water off....NOPE!!!
Its hard to see but there's water droplets everywhere on the entire surface of the car
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q277/kaw_bucket_2007/08B9CFCA-3E21-4DB0-87B3-B7FD216C8FD7_zps20wock7v.jpg (http://s138.photobucket.com/user/kaw_bucket_2007/media/08B9CFCA-3E21-4DB0-87B3-B7FD216C8FD7_zps20wock7v.jpg.html)
And willsports had this comment on my show and shine thread. Was he right? Have I screwed up the coating? I feel he's onto something as its obvious before I applied Reload the coating was shedding water like crazy and now it's sitting. I'm not gonna lie, pretty upset right now especially since I spent 3 days getting my paint ready for the coating only to be horribly let down after applying the company recommended after wash product.
I would suggest against Reload. It doesn't protect your car as well, the water beading looks good but won't give you the same effect of the water beads sliding off your car at 30 mph and when you use it once, you basically have to keep using it because I find it ruins the beading of the actual coating and replaces it with something that looks good but doesn't work as well since Reload doesn't really shed off your Cquartz coating properly. It's great on its own but not on top of a coating. I would suggest to just leave it be, use ECH20 if you really want to give it a good shine for a maintenance wash or a detail spray to give it a nice shine but after all that work on your car, the last thing you'd wanna do is to ruin it with something like Reload.
I put Reload last year on my cquartz uk coated car, on everywhere but the roof. I was so disappointed in what happened that I polished off my hood and re-coated it. So now my roof and my hood are great, while my doors are just ok at best, since I found that one application of Reload ruined my cars water shedding behaviour.
https://youtu.be/1YYaJ0-gdXw
After wash applied Reload, the directions are vague on the bottle, so I took the same approach as I did with CQuartz UK a little goes a long way. Sprayed direct to clean cool paint in the garage and buffed off. Now it rained today and the water was just kind of sitting on the paint, had some time on lunch so went down the highway to see if the 70mph sprint would maybe push the water off....NOPE!!!
Its hard to see but there's water droplets everywhere on the entire surface of the car
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q277/kaw_bucket_2007/08B9CFCA-3E21-4DB0-87B3-B7FD216C8FD7_zps20wock7v.jpg (http://s138.photobucket.com/user/kaw_bucket_2007/media/08B9CFCA-3E21-4DB0-87B3-B7FD216C8FD7_zps20wock7v.jpg.html)
And willsports had this comment on my show and shine thread. Was he right? Have I screwed up the coating? I feel he's onto something as its obvious before I applied Reload the coating was shedding water like crazy and now it's sitting. I'm not gonna lie, pretty upset right now especially since I spent 3 days getting my paint ready for the coating only to be horribly let down after applying the company recommended after wash product.
I would suggest against Reload. It doesn't protect your car as well, the water beading looks good but won't give you the same effect of the water beads sliding off your car at 30 mph and when you use it once, you basically have to keep using it because I find it ruins the beading of the actual coating and replaces it with something that looks good but doesn't work as well since Reload doesn't really shed off your Cquartz coating properly. It's great on its own but not on top of a coating. I would suggest to just leave it be, use ECH20 if you really want to give it a good shine for a maintenance wash or a detail spray to give it a nice shine but after all that work on your car, the last thing you'd wanna do is to ruin it with something like Reload.
I put Reload last year on my cquartz uk coated car, on everywhere but the roof. I was so disappointed in what happened that I polished off my hood and re-coated it. So now my roof and my hood are great, while my doors are just ok at best, since I found that one application of Reload ruined my cars water shedding behaviour.