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Is beading overrated?
While I was taking the trash to the curb yesterday I noticed my neighbor's work truck parked in his driveway. It's about 3 years old, sits outside 24/7 and I know he has never waxed it. Hell, I've never seen him wash it yet it still beads. Am I missing something here?
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Re: Is beading overrated?
•I'm one of those people that doesn't like the
possible damaging affects that water-beading
can levy against auto paint-systems. As such:
Water-beading is overrated to me.
•As to your neighbor's vehicle, this comes to mind:
-While being utilized as a means of transportation,
vehicles can pick up/take on road contaminates,
such as: "oils", that can often effectuate the
water-beading phenomenon.
Bob
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
~Joaquin de Setanti
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Good point, Bob. Didn't think about that. I'm sure if I felt the paint it'd feel like petting a porcupine against the grain.
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Good question. I think way to many times we associate water beading with protection. I mean just because a sealant beads water better than another sealant doesnt mean it protects any better.
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Re: Is beading overrated?
In your neighbor's case, is it likely that he has driven through a car wash that uses a "wax" of some sort.... you know, a rain-x wash or something like that?
In any case, yes, beading is highly overrated. IMO there is no benefit to water beading other than it looks cool. If a surface would simply sheet, rather than bead, it would be ideal.... but I am not sure that is possible as the same surface tension which allows water to slide off in a sheet also creates water beading as I understand it.
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Re: Is beading overrated?
Good thread! I have WGS on my entire car except for the hood which has Collinite 845. It seems the hood beads up "better" than the rest of the car but I feel the sealent is doing a better job from a protection stand point. I'm just basing that off of how slick the WGS is though.
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I have a LOT of experience with this topic. It was a huge topic of discussion when I worked for Meguiar's. I'm also a veteran of the Zaino vs NXT wars and a lot of those wars were about water beading.
Here's what I was told by a chemist friend of mine years ago...
The best paint protecting ingredients don't beat water very well. That is they don't create surface tension.
Water beading can lead to Type II water spots and anyone that's ever had to deal with Type II water spots knows these are some of the worst types of defects to have to remove. I think I also state this in the chapter on water spots in my book, The Complete Gide to a Show Car Shine.
Here's the thing though....
Perception is reality
People, that is the masses perceive water beading to be a visual sign of protection. Thus if your wax doesn't bead water and doesn't bead water for a long time a consensus will be formed that it doesn't protect well and it doesn't protect for a long time and the product will lose favor among the masses and lose sales.
I could go on and on for this topic but I don't have time. Suffice to say...
Perception is reality
Whether it's real or not doesn't matter... at least to the masses.
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Holy #### you guys are geeks!!!
And I mean that in a good way.
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Re: Is beading overrated?
so I wonder what are some of the best paint protectants out there then, since pretty much everything here has some pretty good beading to it
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2006 DSOM C6 z06 - 22k miles
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Re: Is beading overrated?
Originally Posted by SeanChav
so I wonder what are some of the best paint protectants out there then, since pretty much everything here has some pretty good beading to it
IMO:
-While, in some cases, pretty good water-beading
may not be a true indicator of an LSP's paint
protection ability...
-Totally ruling out, in other cases, that water-beading
can/will indicate paint-protection...may prove to be
inconclusive, at best.
•What are some of the best paint protection products?
-Any of the vast assortment of Waxes, Sealants,
and Coatings sold at AGO will more than suffice
in that department...(again IMO).
Bob
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
~Joaquin de Setanti
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