I have a 2019 F-150 that I took to a company to get ceramic coated. Due to weather constraints it did take them about 4 days to ceramic coat my truck with Adams Ceramic Paint Coating Kit. I had a good feeling from the person that did actually do the coating that he knew what he was doing and seemed to care for doing a good an correct job. Once I received my vehicle I will say it looked great but I would rate the job done as a 90% (I'm picky) there were spots where it looked like the coating was not thoroughly worked in.
Current issue:
Fast forward 3 weeks to my first wash. Got all my stuff together and started to attempt a touchless car wash with the foam gun and drying mostly with air. But before I could even get the drying towel out I noticed a absolute massive amount of water spots on my truck. I even pigged my water hose to remove any contaminants in the hose. Also I have a $7K water filtration system cause I hate hard/acidic water. It was a cool day with no breeze to speak of and overcast, I decided to wash again using a pressure washer to rinse and better "scrub" to maybe help with the spots. Alas pressure washer wont start. I spend the night fixing that and in the morning I begin to wash again, no difference with the pressure washer so I setup and go for the two bucket method to get all the dirt off the truck and hope the water spots will go as well. NOPE. So then while the truck is wet I get the H20 G&G out and start wiping down panels, kinda buffing with the HGG to easily rub out as many spots as I can. This helps with many of the spots that I can reach and did great taking the spots off the vinyl stickers on the truck but the spots are not completely gone. Unfortunately I did not take any before pictures but below are some after pictures, there are more spots than in the pic but die to the lighting I couldn't get them all with my cell phone camera. I really did expect more from the coating to stop these spots from forming, especially with it being so very very fresh. Am I being ridiculous for expecting more or are my after pics what you would expect to get after lightly polishing with HGG?
Edit: meant to post this in general but I guess this section is ok as well.
Thanks for any help, advice or tips.
The windshield pic is the best depiction of what most of the truck looked like before the HGG hand "polish/buff"
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Slickit
First off, Hello everybody!
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I have a 2019 F-150 that I took to a company to get ceramic coated. Due to weather constraints it did take them about 4 days to ceramic coat my truck with Adams Ceramic Paint Coating Kit. I had a good feeling from the person that did actually do the coating that he knew what he was doing and seemed to care for doing a good an correct job. Once I received my vehicle I will say it looked great but I would rate the job done as a 90% (I'm picky) there were spots where it looked like the coating was not thoroughly worked in.
Current issue:
Fast forward 3 weeks to my first wash. Got all my stuff together and started to attempt a touchless car wash with the foam gun and drying mostly with air. But before I could even get the drying towel out I noticed a absolute massive amount of water spots on my truck. I even pigged my water hose to remove any contaminants in the hose. Also I have a $7K water filtration system cause I hate hard/acidic water. It was a cool day with no breeze to speak of and overcast, I decided to wash again using a pressure washer to rinse and better "scrub" to maybe help with the spots. Alas pressure washer wont start. I spend the night fixing that and in the morning I begin to wash again, no difference with the pressure washer so I setup and go for the two bucket method to get all the dirt off the truck and hope the water spots will go as well. NOPE. So then while the truck is wet I get the H20 G&G out and start wiping down panels, kinda buffing with the HGG to easily rub out as many spots as I can. This helps with many of the spots that I can reach and did great taking the spots off the vinyl stickers on the truck but the spots are not completely gone. Unfortunately I did not take any before pictures but below are some after pictures, there are more spots than in the pic but die to the lighting I couldn't get them all with my cell phone camera. I really did expect more from the coating to stop these spots from forming, especially with it being so very very fresh. Am I being ridiculous for expecting more or are my after pics what you would expect to get after lightly polishing with HGG?
Edit: meant to post this in general but I guess this section is ok as well.
Thanks for any help, advice or tips.
The windshield pic is the best depiction of what most of the truck looked like before the HGG hand "polish/buff"
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