npgeorgeuw
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- First Name
- Nicholas
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- Feb 5, 2022
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- Location
- Issaquah, WA
- Vehicles
- Mach E GT PE, Jeep Gladiator "Willys"
- Occupation
- Business Owner
9 months of Texas weather means sun and clouds?—Just curious… I will say the Adams graphene coating holds up at least a year (meaning 100% still beading and sheeting right off when clean) in our weather (WA state/Seattle) which includes getting slopped on by sap, smoke, tons of sun, pelted by pine needles, rain half the year, and leaves all year long and snow and salt and ash for good measure. The great thing is 80% isopropyl won’t take it off so you can strip the tar and sap off and still have a ceramic coat left. On my Jeep it actually held up far better than the commercial ceramic coat I had done but it’s also been refurbished with a hybrid paste wax/ceramic once a summer after the graphene coat was originally applied. Bottom line is our vehicles are in a temperate rain forest most of the year and I have yet to find a coating that held up well after a year.—There is just something about rain and tannins from leaves and pine sap that toasts the beading and sheeting quick. My only gripe is in flat light it’s hard to see the flashing so I just time it. My big caution is black cars, it’s really easy to have too much build and it show’s extremely obviously in the light. Easy to quickly polish off but on black it deepens the black so it’s really really obvious, On my white car and a cloudy day (Sunday actually) I just did it by feel as the flashing was pretty much non-existent. The cure isn’t terribly critical either as I had a rain storm come through less than 4 hours later and the coat was still good six months later. It’s also great as in cool temps it flashes slowly so you can work on entire panels or doors and coat them and then buff off the previous panel while those set up.Actually….. We got this same Adam’s kit for our son’s black WRX last year. I think I posted here about it. It works as advertised and the UV gimmick does come in handy while applying it. After 9+ months of Texas weather the ceramic seems to be holding up well as he still gets crazy amounts of water beading and the gloss and depth that the application added have not faded at all. Not bad for $139 and a few hours of work.
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