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This is great advice, thank you both! The video was incredibly informative. - I'll pick up the ceramic spray coating to help with the high spots, as well as BG. - I touched a panel on the car today, and the coating made the paint feel incredibly slick. I like. - Thank you for clarifying how I should refer to high spots (after it's been buffed). - And yes, 95% of the streaking is only visible with the UV light. There are a few spots that can be seen in the shade, but other than that, it's not noticeable (as of now). Thanks all!

I picked up the Adam's Ceramic Coating kit (v2? I bought this about a month ago), went through wash, chem and mechanical decon along with the kit's prep spray. It was impossible NOT to have some amount of streaking. With the UV light and using an overlapping motion, I could not prevent myself from creating "streaking" patterns. It was a rather warm day (77deg, humidity 40% to 58%) (California), and the product dried incredibly fast, I would say around a minute. It was hard to gauge how soon I should have wiped since the product was never "tacky". No matter how slow or fast I was going, nor how much or how little I applied to the applicator, and no matter how much varying degrees of pressure, I could not replicate what I saw in the promotional video where it appeared to be one consistent layer. I haven't driven the car yet, but I am able to see a few streaks while the car was in the shade. In the sun, I'm blinded by how shiny the car is. I had to use 3/4 of the bottle due to the size of the vehicle (Sienna minivan). Apologies for the amount of questions, but I wanted to compile them all into one place instead of bombing the forum with separate ones: 1. How much pressure I should apply? 2. How much of the product should be on the applicator? 3. Is the latest formulaic version of the ceramic coating supposed to be tacky at some point? 4. Should I be using a suede applicator as another thread had mentioned? 5. How often do people apply this to the roof? Of a mini van or SUV even? 6. Will a one-step, light polish by hand easily help remedy the high-spots? (I have a DA polisher as well) 7. When you stop midway through a large panel to refill on the product, how should I go about continuing where I left off to prevent creating a high spot if I still need to employ an over-lapping pattern? Thank you all!