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1 hour ago, Dan@Adams said:

I would agree with others in that unless there was haze that was not fully removed from the Glass Coating Wipes, they will not impact functionality of any cameras. If you have any white Finishing Polish or Brilliant Glaze, put a drop on a plush microfiber towel and wipe back over that specific area, to make sure there are no high-spots from the coating.

I would also check any wiring connections inside of the front bumper, especially if there were high winds and rain. A piece of tire flew up from a truck in front of me and hit one of the parking sensors dead-on in the front bumper of my car - it didn't come unplugged, but it did bump the whole housing loose, so it was constantly beeping like I was going to have a collision until I pulled off the road a 1/4 mile later and snapped the sensor back into place (luckily nothing broke). 

Maybe check the adaptive cruise settings and auto high beam settings in the vehicle settings - perhaps something accidentally reset to a default configuration?

The settings are all as they should be. I toggled  everything off and back on. I will check the connection on the radar emitter, already checked the one for the camera and it seems to be fine. Who knows. It’s more of an annoyance than anything, just don’t want to have to deal with the crappy dealership here to get it looked at so I wanted to exhaust all possibilities before it came to that. 

The weird thing is that the Adaptive Cruise works, it just defaults to off which they did not do before.

We did have a severe storm with high winds over that same date, but nothing on the vehicle was damaged and I’ve verified the alignment of the radar sensor. So at this point I think the timing is just coincidental and the failure is somewhere else.

My passenger side window was hit by a piece of shingle during the recent tornadoes on Easter Sunday. It left some scuff marks in the glass. Just wondering if it is even an option to try to polish that out? They are not super deep scuffs, just annoying. 

Recently I costed my windshield using the glass coating wipes. Ever since then my adaptive cruise control and auto high beams no longer work. I am curious if anyone else has seen a similar issue? 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT. 

I have a bottle of wash and wax that is a couple years old. I glanced at it tonight and it looks like the wax has all settled to the bottom of it and deposited to the bottom of the bottle. I assume it’s ruined but just wondering if there was a fix for this? Shaking it did not seem to do any good. 

For what it’s worth I did my former truck about 18 months ago and kept all the coating, prep and boost in a cool dry place and I just used some of the leftover coating to do my Jeep yesterday and it worked just fine.

No local dealers so I guess that rules me out on this. 

I swear that I saw an ad today for a new floor mat cleaner spray but I can’t remember where I saw it and it isn’t on the site or on here as far as I can tell. Is this the first telltale sign of a mental breakdown?

I’ll take a glass cleaner. 

Will the brilliant glaze harm the water repellant properties of the ceramic coating?

We have extremely hard water where I live and unfortunately I have some water spots on my coated truck. What is my best option at this point? I really don’t want to end up having to re coat if I don’t have to.

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I just finished up installing the paint coating on my Sierra Denali and I still have some coating left over. As long as I keep the bottle capped, how long should this last? I am sure I will use it on something eventually.

I also have a Tonneau Pro on my truck, I am still using the product that came with it but on my older one that I had I used VRT straight and it ran when it rained. The stuf that tonneau pro gives you does not run. So I guess you have to dilute the VRT. I have not tried it yet but going to the next time I do my truck.

Yeah, I used their cleaner but I wasn't all that sure that it had any protectant in it.

I hear these feel just like the real thing

I have two trucks and they have two different bed covers and I am trying to figure out what products work best on them. My older truck has a TonneauPro vinyl type "soft" bed cover and it needs cleaning and protection since the truck sits outside. My newer truck has a Bakflip G2 aluminum bed cover which has a textured finish on top. Any suggestions and/or first hand experience would be really appreciated!

Gah what a time for my internet to crash

Toothbrush and tire/rubber cleaner seems to have done the trick. Thanks guys!

I tried that and it didn't get it off.

G8Board for me, everyone talked about how good the Detail Spray smelled so I decided to try some out. Now I have a little of just about every product they sell

I tried tire and rubber cleaner and that did not work. Will try the APC brush method.

I cleaned mine with interior detailed and they came out way too slippery. Need to pull them out and re clean with all purpose cleaner.

I've got some wax residue (or something) on the textured plastic on my wiper cowl and mirrors that I can not seem to get off. Anyone got any tricks for this? 

Do you have an OEM windshield or has it been replaced.  We had ours replaced about 3 months ago and this windshield is garbage compared to OEM.  Our windshield was a generic from Safelite.

 

It somehow seems very soft and is covered with rock pecks and scratches.  Some scratches are about 4 inches long and nothing harsh has ever touched the windshield that could do something like that to my knowledge.  

I'm not sure if it is the original or not. I am the second owner of the truck so who knows.