New to Me Car - Considering a DIY Ceramic Coating

[The Guz]

Thanks for the replies!

For Adam's I was considering the Graphene Ceramic Coating Advanced. For Gyeon I'm thinking the Q2 Pure Evo.

Pure is the easier of the two. Adams is more hydrophobic and slicker.

[757CA]

Pure is the easier of the two. Adams is more hydrophobic and slicker.

Thanks, appreciate the advice!

[DUBL0WS6]

If this is your first time with a ceramic coating, I'd suggest the Wolfgang Spray Ceramic Coating. It's easy to use. I got 6 months on a vehicle that sits outside 24/7.

[theTown]

Where I work I have to apply glass bottle coatings and I absolutely hate it. I'd rather clean toilets

Can you elaborate on why you hate applying the glass bottle coatings some more?




+1 Megs Hybrid Paint coating. No chance of leaving high spots or messing this up and offers 12 months of protection.

Since I'll likely do an annual decon / paint enhancement anyway, the 2+ year long lasting DIY ceramic products didn't seem worth the extra hassle on a car that lives outside and will likely need attention in a year anyway.

Also, I think the leftover product would go bad by the time its time to re-coat in a year (I had emailed carpro about this). The megs paint coating comes in a can and I think has a longer shelf life.



I'd love to hear some counterpoints in favor of a more real "ceramic" coating. I have another vehicle that is always garage kept that will be next and need to decide between the "glass bottle" products, or just using more of my Megs H. Coating that I have left over.



To the OP - I recently tackled my first polishing project. The car was black and the paint was soft so I had to go back to the drawing board a couple times to refine my technique. Its definitely possible to achieve amazing results DIY. My biggest take away from it was that the pads and polish you use are a function of your vehicles paint condition and clear coat hardness. Until you know those things, its hard to know what combination of products to use. For this reason, I ended up ordering an array of different pads and polishes to determine the least aggressive recipe to achieve the results I was after.