BeadMaker 50/50 dust test

[fly07sti]

It's not a true test though.

Not until he uses each cat to buff the test spots............

You do have a point. AG has the Chinchilla MF, maybe Ric needs to develop a line of MF’s. You know I’ll buy a few.

[Coatingsarecrack]

You do have a point. AG has the Chinchilla MF, maybe Ric needs to develop a line of MF’s. You know I’ll buy a few.

A few..... lol


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[Eldorado2k]

Ok so I went to check on the car not too long ago, so it’s been a full 24hrs. since application.

The hood looks normal enough, but this is in the shade.




The roof: There’s some dusty streaks going on the bare side, not really sure why that happened, because of that the Beadmaker side appears to be slightly cleaner here…





But… Once we get to the trunklid we start to see a definitive difference. Well, it would appear so far that indeed the Beadmaker side has collected more dust.




Almost hard to capture on camera, and for the most part it’s slight in person, but as you can see in that 1st photo of the trunklid, there is a difference.




I’ll check on the car tomorrow, hopefully I can get some shots of the hood in the sun.

[gorillapr]

Nice way to document it, also it would be interesting to see if during pollen season does the dusting issue increases on the BM half

Thanks for this thread

[vaca22]

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True.

[Eldorado2k]

This is giving me so many ideas… I wonder if the owner would mind if I just use her Mercedes as a guiniea pig year round to test a bunch of different products?lol. J/k

But seriously, there’s a big difference between a test panel and an actual real life driving black vehicle.

[BobWhite]

Does Beadmaker have oils in it that can contribute to the “dust collection”?

[Eldorado2k]

5 day update: I went to see the car yesterday and here’s what it looked like. At 1st glance you can’t really tell..




But if you look closer, you can clearly see that the Beadmaker side has accumulated more dust.





Hood:




Better shot of the hood:





Water behavior when sprayed with WG Uber rinseless.



After wipedown:



Conclusion: The Beadmaker sides did collect more dust. Whether or not it’s a dealbreaker is debatable, for me it isn’t a dealbreaker because the difference in shine, darkening ability, slickness, hydrophobic water behavior, and overall protection makes up for the slight bit of increased dust.

Some might argue that the increased dust defeats any added shine. At the end of the day it’s your choice whether or not you like to use it or not.

I personally think using it or anything else as a drying aid and having it nearly ruin my drying towels is a bigger deal than this slight bit of dust, which is why I no longer use so called drying aids with my new towels..

[Shane731]

What kind of drying towels are those?

[Eldorado2k]

What kind of drying towels are those?

Griots PFM & Big Blue Drying Towel.