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CQuartz High Spots After One Week
Last weekend I applied 2x CQuarts UK 3.0 and Gliss. I was out of town all week so the car sat in the garage. This weekend I pulled it out as it was overcast and cool so I wanted to apply DLUX to trim.
once outside I found 5 or 6 small high spots when looking in one particular angle. I tried buffing but they were solig and flash CQ flash color.
i took a hand polish pad and applied a very small amount of M205 by hand, lightly. While I was happy to see it removed the high spot, it was alarming how easy.
The finish still felt slick. However I’m not sure if that’s the polish, or still CQ/gliss.
Im out of CQ, but have gliss. Should I apply gliss to these spots just to be safe? just having it outside for 30 min and the car is oreads covered in pollen!
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Re: CQuartz High Spots After One Week
Originally Posted by mrmarkmac
Last weekend I applied 2x CQuarts UK 3.0 and Gliss. I was out of town all week so the car sat in the garage. This weekend I pulled it out as it was overcast and cool so I wanted to apply DLUX to trim.
once outside I found 5 or 6 small high spots when looking in one particular angle. I tried buffing but they were solig and flash CQ flash color.
i took a hand polish pad and applied a very small amount of M205 by hand, lightly. While I was happy to see it removed the high spot, it was alarming how easy.
The finish still felt slick. However I’m not sure if that’s the polish, or still CQ/gliss.
Im out of CQ, but have gliss. Should I apply gliss to these spots just to be safe? just having it outside for 30 min and the car is oreads covered in pollen!
This is my issue with coatings. What if you had left the highspots alone? Were they that obvious?
If money and time isn't an issue, I would order more UK and apply. I know, it's annoying.
Other option is just to apply Gliss to those areas and keep an eye on them.
Also how do you know if the highspot was the UK or gliss?
You probably know this by now, even after waxing always try to pull car out and assess your work. Often it looks amazing in the garage, I'll go somewhere and see a wipe mark or haze I missed lol.
Good luck!
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Re: CQuartz High Spots After One Week
I have had the exact same issue. I have twin 4 yr olds so my coating/polishing times are usually from 7pm-1am or so in the morn. I have a ton of lights in my garage but will find a high spot or two the next day in the light. I have never polished them out just let it be. They do bug me though. How easy did the buff off happen? I was tempted to polish them and reapply UK3.0 in just that spot and not polish the whole panel.
I had three high spots on my black suburban. I did nothing with them. I noticed a year later they are about 15% of the original high spot size. Maybe 20 hand car washes.
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Re: CQuartz High Spots After One Week
Originally Posted by 392hemi
If money and time isn't an issue, I would order more UK and apply. I know, it's annoying
Also how do you know if the highspot was the UK or gliss?
Good luck!
Once back in the garage I can see the spots I polished on the black roof. So I’m ordering another CQ UK. I need to do my wheels and was going to use DULX but I’ll just use CQ.
I know it was CQ in a few spots because it was the rainbow color, and not white like gliss.
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Re: CQuartz High Spots After One Week
Originally Posted by gsmarquis
How easy did the buff off happen? .
It was alarming how easy. Just a dab of M205 on a hand applicator pad and maybe 5 seconds of circular polishing by hand. Immediately buffed and they were gone.
As I mentioned, the coatings were only on there 6 days so I’m not sure if that allowed it to buff easier.
After seeing three spots I buffed on the roof, I need to re apply CQ on them as it will drive me nuts every time I see it. They’re so small that it should be pretty easy and painless to polish up a little better, earaser and CQ+gliss again.
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Re: CQuartz High Spots After One Week
Originally Posted by 392hemi
This is my issue with coatings. What if you had left the highspots alone?
Good luck!
There was only two that really were visible from most angles outside. I wish I had left the rest alone looking back, as they were pretty hard to see.
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Re: CQuartz High Spots After One Week
Originally Posted by mrmarkmac
There was only two that really were visible from most angles outside. I wish I had left the rest alone looking back, as they were pretty hard to see.
Lol the curse of an Autogeek. If I could go back in time and wish I couldn't see swirls.
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Re: CQuartz High Spots After One Week
Originally Posted by mrmarkmac
Last weekend I applied 2x CQuarts UK 3.0 and Gliss. I was out of town all week so the car sat in the garage. This weekend I pulled it out as it was overcast and cool so I wanted to apply DLUX to trim.
once outside I found 5 or 6 small high spots when looking in one particular angle. I tried buffing but they were solig and flash CQ flash color.
i took a hand polish pad and applied a very small amount of M205 by hand, lightly. While I was happy to see it removed the high spot, it was alarming how easy.
The finish still felt slick. However I’m not sure if that’s the polish, or still CQ/gliss.
Im out of CQ, but have gliss. Should I apply gliss to these spots just to be safe? just having it outside for 30 min and the car is oreads covered in pollen!
It is not that alarming. Coatings don't form that thick of a layer to begin with. It also takes a little more than a week to fully cure. You would be fine just applying Gliss to those areas. I have left high spots on purpose and they tend to retain there size over the long term. That is a good sign that the coating is pretty durable.
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Re: CQuartz High Spots After One Week
So the car has been in the garage pretty much since I put CQ+gliss on. As noted above I just hand polished off a few high spots.
When I took the car out the other day it wasn’t suppose to rain, but my luck as usual it did a little. What was interesting is that the beading was crazy, but I could clearly see different type of beading where I hand polished the high spots.
Any suggestions on how to just touch up those spots? The car is still slick to the touch, so I was thinking the following in these 5-6 spots.
Light clay,
Hand polish if required
Eraser localized area
CQx2
Gliss
The car has a black roof, and in the garage I can see the two spots I did with hand polish easily. They don’t have the gloss/shine like the rest of the roof. I’m assuming that comes back after re-applying CQ+gliss to match the rest? Or should I worry about DA polisher on those to really make them shine like the rest before?
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Re: CQuartz High Spots After One Week
Did you touch up those areas with coating after you removed those high spots?
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