3 coating comparison

**RippyD** · 01-08-2017, 06:17 PM

No new pics or water tests. Car has about 1" of snow and 1/4" of ice over that. Maybe next weekend. Below is a pic of what I did on the hood. Added a couple of products (as previously mentioned) and it gives me another place to compare the look and beading/sheeting. I'm thinking this is also a good opportunity to see what it takes to remove a coating - will try that in the spring.

Clockwise from lower right: Cquartz UK, Sonüs Ion, Duragloss, Polish Angel, McKee's, and TBD (temporarily has DG Trackclaw - will replace with coating).

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**Eldorado2k** · 01-08-2017, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by RippyD

No new pics or water tests. Car has about 1" of snow and 1/4" of ice over that.

Important question: Is the ice on top of the vehicle in the shape of a bead? Lol.

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**RippyD** · 01-09-2017, 05:06 AM

One big bead, like an ice cube.

**RippyD** · 01-14-2017, 04:14 PM

It's going to be a few more days.

**davidc** · 01-14-2017, 04:49 PM

Ha!!!!!!!! you need to put that foam gun down

Dave

**RippyD** · 01-21-2017, 01:16 PM

Finally got melted here. It was about 40 degrees when I took these pics this morning. I washed the hood and roof with D114 at 128:1 and rinsed. Didn't like results so I washed again and a much lower dilution and rinsed again just to be sure. Same results.

Summary: there's no difference in the McKee's and Duragloss coatings from previously. The Polish Angel coating is still sheeting faster than the other two, but much slower than it was previously. I don't know what to make of this. It certainly could be an application issue. Could be that combined with those coatings not liking to go on in lower temps. When I applied them it took a long time for them to flash relative to warmer temps. And maybe they sheet differently this close to 32 degrees? I really don't know what's going on.

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After a few seconds.

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After a while.

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Tape lines

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More interesting is the results on the roof. I now wish I'd left one section untreated as a control. I may remove the TrackClaw to see how an untreated section compares. Although the tape lines may be an indicator of this (Note that the tape lines got cleaned twice with Eraser (front to back) and 15% alcohol solution (side to side).

Map of what I applied to the roof.

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Water on

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Immediately after. You can see the water is moving off the Cquartz UK, TrackClaw, and Sonus Ion immediately.

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A little more slowly for the Polish Angel and DG Nanoglass, but still sheeting quickly. McKee's is sheeting very slowly here, similarly to the hood.

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Because the DG Nanoglass is sheeting well on the roof but not the hood, the most likely answer is poor application of the DG and McKee's. Could be combo of my application and temps. I will say that based on this Cquartz seems to be more favorable for low temp application. Not the best pics of the roof. Will try to get higher so it's easier to see the sections toward the rear of the car better.

**RippyD** · 01-21-2017, 03:02 PM

Update: tested the roof again from a better perspective. Need to clarify that McKee's, Duragloss, and Polish Angel coatings on the roof are sheeting much better than the ones on the hood. The McKee's and DG are sheeting water off in 15-20 seconds. PA is a little faster. So probably not what I would expect, but it's not laying there like on the hood. The other coatings (one sealant) are repelling water immediately.

**RippyD** · 01-21-2017, 08:40 PM

Forgot to post a pic. Different perspective. You can see water has sheeted everywhere else and is still running off the DG Nanoglass and McKee's sections. Polish Angel was a little slower than the others and faster than these two. I have no idea what this means in terms of protection, if anything.

Expecting sun for several days next week. Will try to get a sense of how the compare visually. Maybe hard to tell with such small sections.

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If you look closely you can see the tape lines. Not so easy to see here to due to pic size. (Still frustrated by pic attachments - can't get them to what I want.) I added some white lines to make the tape lines more obvious. Could follow it based on water beading for the last section toward the rear. Lines are approximate, of course.