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I tried some regular polishes from here and that didn't work.

I don't have revive, I just never thought I'd hand polish anything, but I hear alot of good things about it, so maybe I'll purchase it finally.

I'll get metal polish 1. I hope that does the trick.

is there a very small diameter buffer I can get to do that trim? the head needs to be like 1 inch. Maybe a dremel on low speed???

Metal polish 1 or 2? I think 1? I don't need it looking like "glass" lol. Just want to remove the water spots.

I'll try some regular polish on it today. Can't hurt to try I suppose

Yes, that is chrome trim. I put it in the title

Hey guys,

I have some trim on my car that has gotten "etched" by water spots. I haven't tried polish or anything (rubbing some polish with a towel might even work) but I wanted to know if there are any other "tricks" that could help me clean this up....

Also have to be careful with the rubber weather seal. if I get polish on that, it won't be fun. I do have some of the masking tape I got from here I could put on the rubber I guess

ps - Don't mind the door handle, the chrome trim broke off, and has been replaced 😎

Thanks!

For a 5 dollar difference, I'll give it a try. Thanks!

Hey guys,

I went back a few pages but didn't see this question....

I've used the spray for years and it has always worked well for me.

What is the difference with the "gel" formula? Just foaming or something so that it doesn't run? (Didn't have a running problem in the past)

Thanks!

20 hours ago, Rich said:

Interesting.  Never heard of it.  If you get it done, post up some pics.

Just had it installed today. I can't even tell it's on, and it hasn't even fully cured yet. they have a heatlamp there where you feel it naked (no tint.. I had my clothes on lol) then you can put the film you'd like on your car. with this air 80, you can def feel less heat. dare I say almost half? then the pinnacle etc and you barely feel the heat. 

I feel pretty sure this is going to make a big difference for us people living in very hot climates. Let me use it for a month and I will give a yay or nay. As of now, I want to put it on the corvette and the malibu.

Yeah, I'm going to get a refund for it. Parad0x is correct. there's alot of prep and that's the hard part (polishing being toughest and my least favorite). After that, it's just properly applying the product without breaking a sweat... that's what I will do.

I guess I got thrown off because of the "1st ever sprayable ceramic coat" just made me think it's "almost" as good, but I think it's far away.

and I wasn't comparing it with the meguiar's ceramic wax spray. others on the internet compare it to this product when they do the this vs that stuff like on youtube, and some other brand. P&S or something. I don't remember now.

I only mentioned the cquartz because I can just go get it locally today. I haven't checked any reviews of the adam's one online. Also price difference. and V1 adams and v3 cquartz.

I got the CSC because it sounded like something that would last few months, and it is a ceramic based coating afterall. the videos show proper prep, and they spray APC or iron remover on it to test chemical resistance and the coating is totally removed. I would expect it to have some kind of durability. Adams made it sound like a 9h coating that will last for about 6 months.

I still have like half a gallon of the waterless. i wanna finish that before I get another waterless lol. I also have over a gallon of detail spray (I use that alot lol).

I just purchased another brand wash/wax. I need to finish that before I get the ceramic wash lol.

I asked adam's for a refund for the CSC. I might get something else for it.

1 hour ago, Parad0x said:

My main thought on the new Ceramic Spray Coating is it involves the same prep work that one must perform before applying Adam’s Ceramic Paint Coating.  Decontaminate, correct and prep all surfaces.  The whole preparation process is key and IMO more difficult/labor intensive than applying the actual coating.  So, once all that time is taken, why not take a small amount of extra time and apply Adam’s ‘regular’ Ceramic Paint Coating?  

 

Maybe I can see the CSC being good for someone who already has Adam’s CPC on their vehicle, it’s a year or more old and has some minor swirls that someone would like to correct.  They decontaminate if they want, use a very light polish to correct once again, removing some but not all the coating and then freshen up the coating with CSC.  

 

That’s just my take on where CSC would maybe fit in for me.  I say maybe because my vehicles are coated and with cautious washing methods and using good maintenance products, I’m plenty happy with where my finish is.  I should probably decontaminate by this point, but overall, it looks great and the very few swirls that got imparted are not really noticeable especially after washing the car and while drying, misting some detail spray on the still wet paint.

You make a good point. I guess my thing was... "oh! easier to apply, it cost less and works ALMOST as well!" That's why I got it I guess...

you're totally right though. the main PITA is the prep (wash, clay, polish, wipe down). the application is the easy part... I should have just gone with the regular one, and not the spray. damn me. I still feel like I got fooled. lol

I only mentioned the cquartz because I can just go get it locally today. I haven't checked any reviews of the adam's one online. Also price difference. and V1 adams and v3 cquartz.

I got the CSC because it sounded like something that would last few months, and it is a ceramic based coating afterall. the videos show proper prep, and they spray APC or iron remover on it to test chemical resistance and the coating is totally removed. I would expect it to have some kind of durability. Adams made it sound like a 9h coating that will last for about 6 months.

That's just my disappointment with it. It doesn't act much better than the meguiar's hybrid ceramic wax spray it seems.

and as for what I want for product/finish?

I'm looking for easy application (spray on sounds great), easy removal and at least 6 months of protection.

Right now I use adam's paint sealant, and that gets me about 3 months with h20 g&g spray on between washes. Was looking to just replace the paint sealant with CSC and ceramic boost.

just search youtube and look for reviews. Haven't seen many (if any) positive ones from more known detail youtubers

Hey guys,

I'm posting this here because I want to make a discussion about this, instead of putting it in detailing....

I just watched few youtube videos where their ceramic spray is put to test, and it does pretty bad. I won't post them here because well... I don't want to get banned lol.

I like youtube because they are independent youtubers doing their own reviews to test products. so when something fails, it's out there for everyone to see. and comments are not biased towards anyone either.

I came here knowing I will get a biased answer, but I've been using adam's for over 5 years now, so I don't want to give up on them so easy.

How has your durability been with the spray ceramic coat? Have you put it to test? what kind of weather has it seen? 

I hate to say it, but I'm thinking about returning it. It would be my 1st ever adam's product i'd return. The independent reviews are very bad for it once it gets exposed to some chemicals, or high spots easily removed by just water after curing for 3 days.

again... please don't take this as me trashing the company. I'm simply asking you guys your experience with it and it's durability. If I do return it, I will get the Cquartz UK and use that to coat my car.

Thanks...

Just watched the recent video Adams made regarding their ceramic products. I heard the guy talking about how there is now a specific towel for removing just the right amount of stuff from the paint when used vs using single or double towels which may remove too much product...

I recently (before this rebranding stuff) purchased the spray ceramic coat (right when it came out) and it was recommended to use the regular towels. Now there is a special towel for this...

Do I use a single soft towel, or do I now go order the suede towel?

I feel like I keep having to buy stuff 😥. Planning on doing my malibu with the spray ceramic before I do the bigger X5, which I just applied sealant on couple weeks ago...

Thanks.

55 minutes ago, Parad0x said:

Is this the stuff that goes on the outside of the front windshield?  Obsessed Garage did a video, or some I forget, where he had it installed on one of his vehicles.  As good of a job it seemed the installer did, he still had to be]ring it back in.  

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No, this goes on the inside. It's like regular tint.

Hey guys,

With this Florida heat and looking for ways to help keep car cool, I started looking at the Llumar Air 80. It's designed for windshields and supposedly is clear with a very light tint of blue. I want to get it done on the wife's X5. 

Does anyone have this? I found one thread about it on another forum and the only complaint I saw was people who have it arguing the headlights from cars make the orange peel look obvious, and other owners saying they don't have this issue, so perhaps the installer is to blame. Not sure...

Looking for anyone who has it to chime in on it's ability to actually lower heat/temps in the car. It's not legal in Florida, but I'm not worried about that. lol.

Their "one step" is really an "all in one". I wish they had named it correctly. It adds silica for protection according to description so yeah.... Consider it an "aio" 

I just used a clay bar and the paint sealant on our new to us x5. Looking good! I'll do a complete polish one of these days. 

And couple days ago while getting gas, little over spill got on the area where the cap is. It just made me wonder since fuel is pretty strong. 

Does this remove and protectant applied to the vehicle? 

Thanks! Here is the car post detail... Cuz we love pics! 

I don't measure honestly. I make one or two circles around a hand mitten thingy and little in the bucket. Maybe 2 to 3 oz? Same as all my other ones. 

Maybe a pump would help me measure accurately. 

So I commented on a IG post about the wash & wax few days ago saying I hated the product. It wouldn't sud well for me (not with the cannon) and it had zero "wax" properties. Overall, I was very unsatisfied with the product. I use the whole thing to make my judgement on a product so it's been gone for some time now.

Did anyone else have this problem? I doubt it, because it seems to be selling well afaik....

I bought some Meguier's wash & wax from Costco that I figured I try, but now they just released their new sio2 wash + coat and I'm really curious if I'm going to have the same problems as I did with the wash & wax...

What could have gone wrong? lol.

I have the ultra foam one and that one suds very well. the regular blue car wash soap did too.

Yeah, they def didn't handle this one properly. I did the same thing. I prepped the car over the weekend and left it in the garage, waiting for this thing to come, only to get a piece of paper saying it's back ordered.

Pretty bummed out that I received my ceramic coating boost thing, but not the smaller 8oz bottle I purchased. I wish they had made it so it said it was on backorder... I thought they forgot to put it in the box and I was like "oh boy, let's see if they even believe me".

so now I got ceramic boost spray with no ceramic coating to apply lol...

3 minutes ago, Rich said:

 

 

Why?  

 Because we're human and some of us always think we got a better way of doing things. Look at politics LOL

4 minutes ago, falcaineer said:

 

Then this is right up your alley! Post some pics when you get 'er all purdy!

 For sure! I think this is going to shine for the daily driver malibu.

1 minute ago, falcaineer said:

 

It's an awesome product. Sounds too good because it's new. You're gonna love it!

I'm hoping!!! I just never really wanted to do the traditional way because I'm a fan of easy to apply stuff. Spray on, haze, buff off seems easy enough to me lol.

Just purchased it too... Really hoping this is a good product. Almost sounds too good to be true. I'll apply it to the Vette and the daily driver

I hear you guys are giving away day passes? Any left? I live right across the street from there. I'd love to visit and say hi (and check out the show) let me know!