Touch up of Uber Ceramic Coating

[wil2007]

As I looked truck over in sun, I found several spots.Hit them with Menzerna SF4000, perfect prep and recoated small areas. Blended in fine and very happy with product. Touch up proved to be very easy

[HazardousTR]

Yeah, me too. Just found a spot on a black Subaru WRX that needs 'updating'...Doh! Funny how you don't see some of this stuff until the car is 'out in the wild' no matter how clearly you inspect after initial application.

Yeah especially when it's a black vehicle, the flaws show up a lot more. My black Challenger has a few spots I didn't notice until I got it out in the sun for a week.

[Mike Phillips]

Just to chime in...

Probably best to redo the entire panel. If you try to touch it up it will look uneven.

I agree. For a perfect touch-up do the entire panel. That said, you can polish a small area and the chemically strip and the re-apply the Uber Coating and be sure to overlap past the polished area.

Hi, as soon as my order arrives I will be applying uber as well. Can I ask how it went for you?

Any tips for a novice?

Here's a full how-to write up that you could call a tip

Review & How-To: Wolfgang Uber Ceramic Paint Coating



In my opinion and experience, you really need a lot of high quality microfiber towels to chemically strip paint in order to properly prep it for the application of any coating.

Why?

Because as you're wiping a polished surface off assuming there are polishing oils to be removed, if they are coming off the paint and onto your microfiber towel then you need to be switching out to fresh towels. This means a LOT of fresh towels.

Each panels should be wiped two times and each time using a clean towels. A car with 9 panels would require 18 towels just for chemically stripping the paint.

A 4 door car has roughly 11 defined panels. There's also painted portions in the front and rear of the car that need to be chemically stripped if they are to be coated.

1. Roof
2. Hood
3. Trunk lid
4. Driver's side front fender
5. Driver's door
6. Driver's side passenger door
7. Driver's side rear fender
8. Back of car not the trunk lid
9. Passenger side rear fender
10. Passenger side rear door
11. Passenger side front door
12. Passenger side front fender
13. Front of car that's not the hood

If you compound and polish the car before coating it then you'll need microfiber towels for these two steps and you'll need microfiber towels for wiping off the high spots after applying the coating.


Just thought I would share this for anyone new to applying paint coatings.