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With doing polishing again lately, needed some new towels for polish residue removal. Also, since I got into coatings, there’s the ipa/eraser/etc step that needs towels. What mf characteristics are needed for that? Got the Griot’s wax removal towels that Mike Phillips recommended in an article...

If you have a garage queen/Weekend car, what LSP do you use on it? Does it matter color? Metallic or no?

‘Self Cleaning’ evokes images of little molecules with microscopic spray bottles and microfiber in my addled mind. I know this isn’t the case. Today was the first time it’s rained while we were out driving in my wife’s car - a good soaking rain. The hood was clear shortly after the rain stopped...

Need to add some protection to my Astro Black MINI Cooper convertible. I have a couple of options to go with... 1. Prima Banana Gloss (and Slick to maintain) — or — 2. OPT Optiseal & Spray wax (and OID to maintain) I need to use both up so it’s a matter of which to use first. Or put another...

Got to thinking about this after the discussion of using toppers. Do they actually extend the life of coatings? For instance, if you were to use Reload every month, would you stretch CQUK from two years to three?

Getting close to completing coating my wife’s Tuxedo Black Navigator L with CQUARTZ Lite - hope to get front bumper, rear bumper, no lift gate tomorrow. Then comes the biggest challenge... the roof. I can walk short distances and stand for short times so I’m not always in my wheel chair but my...

Saw a local ad for a furniture store that was advertising... ...graphene mattresses! Because they keep you cooler at night.

It’s been a week since I applied CQUARTZ Lite to the driver side of my wife’s SUV. When I put it on, I went over it with a light. I took care of the one high spot I saw. I’ve looked it over inside again and when it’s been in direct sun. Didn’t see a darned thing. Today, when it was out in the...

Not probably going to use one on the lite coating I’m applying now* but when I apply a full coating I’m considering my options. * want to get the unadulterated coating experience.

I did a very light polish on my wife’s hood this evening even though I couldn’t see any marring under any light angles. I decided to anyway before I put on CQuartz Lite. Was wondering if I have other panels like that, do you think I ‘need’ to polish at all?

Just curious what y’all use as cleaner and/or protectant on dashes?

Second application put on a bit over an hour later. In between I had washed all the towels and the applicator. Didn’t notice a single hard crystal so I used them again. No problem with scratches on the second coat. Also found a little paint brush with a pointy end and cleared out the hole on...

So as my very first coating, and after much thought carried out on this and the other forum, I chose CQuartz lite. Thought it would be a good balance of ease of use and being close to a ‘full’ coating in application. I also chose it because if I had gone the full blown coating route I was...

Think I’ll try coating some metal & plastimetal bits in my car (see photo). I have Gyeon Q2 Rim & CarPro CQUARTZ lite. Which would be better? Or am I just being daft?

Had this ‘stain’ (?) that obviously from windshield washer fluid since I got my car. Tried claying it soon after but with no joy. Suggestions?

Tried iron remover (have some Dodo Juice Ferrous Dueller) on all my cars* over the last couple of weeks. It dries, even doing half a panel, before I see any reaction at all. I’m guessing it’s one of 3 reasons: (a) there’s no iron contamination, 2. The remover is gone bad, thirdly, it’s two dry...

I’ve seen it recommended that as much as possible you should use products from the same product family as your coating. I can see that with toppers (maybe) like Reload or CQuartz but with things like panel prep and iron remover I’m not so sure (aren’t they all basically the same chemicals). so...