CHEAP VS EXPENSIVE: ADAMS GRAPHENE CERAMIC COATING VS 303 GRAPHENE NANO SPRAY COATING 

For what it's worth, I have tried the Adam's version and I am impressed (it does smell like a solvent). I have no experience with the 303. Thanks for the comparison Jimbo!

Personally I like adams products in general I use them regularly here in the UK and find there durability very 👍 good!

Great video as always Jimbo. What pressure washer do you run?

Love your videos, I would like to see you use some normal stuff people might get on their paint during a wash first before going to the big guns like a high ph soap, iron and tar removers, and maybe a few different ph wheel cleaners, I feel like that would be a little more helpful for the everyday enthusiast. Just a suggestion hope you’re having a great day. 👍🏼

What is the hose attachment you use? It has a perfect spray pattern! I want that sprayer or attachment whatever it's called

Great video buddy

Which would you recommend to use over clear paint protection or clear bra? I ordered a new car that I should be getting in a couple weeks and it has the full hood clear paint protection?

Seal n shine over both for price and similar if not better chemical resistance as well as durability abd longevity. Especially when topped with Ice Spray wax. Excellent economical very strong and easy combo!

like #9 comment #4- 303 is going to win, now if they would get rid of the "sticky" feeling on application. Personally, I don't think i am ready to give up my Seal N Shine, the quick application and great results at an $10 price point

Adam's fan from Taiwan, keep up the great job.

Another excellent video.

I have never used the Adam's, but I did use the graphene coating of Turtle Wax and I recently used the 303 Graphene Nano-spray and I have have a little accident on my 303 coating which was completely my own fault: I washed my BMW Z4 e89 with tap-water and I expected it to rain off, because the forecast said so, but it did not happen. The result was that I was left with terrible waterspots on the black paint, because my mineral-rich tap-water dried up on the car. It looked terrible all over the roof, the bonnet and the trunk. Luckily I had a 303 coating on (and some beadmaker also) and after I washed the car with Turtle wax Max Power it looks perfect again and it has lost all of its water-spots. I applied a new coat of Bead-maker on it after that and it looks really magnificent again.

Who an amazing video and information. I have my car coated with Graphene coating from a graphene coating dealer. After 5 washes the car lots it shining athough I am using PH neutral Shampoo. How do I maintain the shine ?

everybody talks about water beading, what I'm more concerned is a product that repels dust and dirt. what product do you recommend?

Once I apply it to my vehicle what can I use over it to maintain gloss on it. Such as a quick detailer.

Love that Adams spray.

Having used both products extensively, the 303 should be the product everyone uses..use it over any ceramic coating too...its extremely easy to use, gives you 12 months of protection, is cheap and can be used as needed even after a simple car wash. Truly a fantastic product.

Did the 303 get slicker after it cured?

Prefer the 303. Being able to see it hazed is useful to know where you've applied it

Put 303 on wife’s car in March still shining and beeding. I did go over it with Xtreme solutions topper right after use to add slickness

I just applied the 303 to my hatch today and think it's great. Goes on very easy and isn't that hard to buff off. Certainly better than a carnuba wax but yeah I find it's a little grabby and not slick at all. Applying 2 coats took me about an hour.

Another thing: why are all RU-vid detailers coming up with crazy ways to remove the coatings using all types of cleaners and solvents? I find it very unrealistic, as nobody would spend money and effort to apply a ceramic coating and then use all sorts of products that will remove it. It would be much more realistic to test by running multiple car washes, done with the same type of foam/shampoo that you would use on a car that is coated. I know that it might take dozens and dozens of washes to remove a ceramic coating, but this type of test would really tell us how many “weekly washes” the coating can withstand. Would this be too complicated to do?

A product can smell good and still be toxic. Just because a manufacturer mixes in perfumes doesn't mean it isn't harmful to your health. If a product does what it says. it does,who cares what it smells like. We should all be wearing PPE with just about all detailing products anyway.

I have been using Adam's for awhile now, it does not smell that bad.

What about the new advanced spray with gold lettering. Also, I’ve never seen anyone recommend or not recommend a sealant based on smell 🤷‍♂️ So if a product smells like cotton candy it’s a winner?

303 is excellent. I used it on my Forester and when it rains the car actually gets cleaner

I use Adams and its good stuff!!

As a mobile detailer, i use the Adams graphene coating over the “high durability” sealants like seal and shine and others. Adams may not have the chemical resistance for APC’s and wheel cleaners, but it lasts far longer than any other spray product i have seen. ik it’s not popular opinion, but Adams do make really good products and most of the people that hate in them have not tied their stuff or only a few.

Wouldn't recommend a product just because of the smell? Is this a perfume comparison? Love you Jimbo so please wear respiratory protection brother. If is smells that bad then being a chronic detaler this is definitely a inhalation hazard and you'll eventually have side affects, I hope and pray not but cancers no joke. Thanks for the video

I think you hit the nail on the head about water beading Vs. sheeting. Water beading is overrated: we are conditioned to look for good beading because that’s what you can see after a good coating, but in reality all that you want is for the water and the dirt to move away from your paint, so that your car stays clean longer. Actually, I find water beading a problem, more than an advantage: what if you can’t dry the car? Those beads will become water spots that you’ll need to remove later. Your method of using the wet MF towel and especially the blower are much more telling in my opinion, thank you for doing that.

2nd from Puerto Rico 👍🇵🇷

You wanna remove waxes and sealants? Citrol 266. Easy peasy everytime! Just don't let it dry on the paint.

The other thing to note is Adams is a lite ceramic so the 24hours is before it gets wet meant to wait at least a week before washing..

Water sheeting > beading if you care about water spots.

So if we are trying to make sure all waxes and sealants are stripped from the paint, we can safely use purple power???

Smell not bad at all for the Adam graphene spray I been use it for 1yr now. My opinion it way better than that 303. I try use it for about 3 months not that good.

I have experienced the tachy/grabby feel on wiping off the 303. Not a deal breaker, since it has insane beading, and water blows away easily during driving. Haven’t tried the Adams Graphene yet.

Don’t understand the love affair with beading. Adam’s is sheeting extremely fast and leaving a dryer panel

Can you use either of these on a 3M vinyl wrap?

Purple power is a beast!

My only comment is that of course both these products especially the Adam’s have to be shaken before applying to an applicator and we didn’t see you do that especially before you sprayed the Adam’s onto the applicator.

It’s funny the haze time is a pro for me. Mainly cause you can get visual feedback that you have properly coverage a panel etc . But I am also a novice at all this so it could just be a “rookie thing”

I’ve tried both. In person, Adams looks superior on paint. 303 has a weird silicone-like feel on the paint and dust seems to stick to it. The application of graphene in either product seems inconsequential. Synthetic paint sealants and ceramic coatings are still your best options for paint protection. Both companies are US-based and employee 100% of their workforce in the US from what data I can gather. Both are worth supporting. Give either one a try if you haven’t.

Jimbo's "nails on the chalkboard" squeaky blower makes me cringe every time.

I really appreciate you doing this comparison for the two products. I believe that you are among the first to do so. Would or could you use a ceramic coating, topped with a 303 or Adams graphene spray? Or perhaps after all prep work is completed, just a spray graphene, topped with Bead Maker? Thank you for the videos.

Wear nitrile gloves during application.

What's spray wax is the best

I’m with commenter #19 I still think seal and shine will outlast both of the or at least hang with them until the end making seal and shine the winner. That just my opinion.

Notification gang

Should be wearing a respirator with chemical filters and full face would be better with long sleeves and gloves. Resins on skin bad, in eyes worse and in lungs is a rough time

Whistling..... and now squeeking.... lol. Thanks for getting yourself wet to put up these comparison vids. ;)

Man...I wish I could like the 303 more than I do, but I give it about a 7 out of 10 for application. Protection-wise, I'm sure it's great, but we haven't had inclement weather yet, but I've applied 2 coats just in case. Wiping-on is super easy (almost like a fast-drying grease), and it dries fairly fast, but it does take some effort to buff out, and even then, you're left with streaks...and quite a bit of static. It does produce a great shine but the streaks get in the way of the color depth. I have applied it in both the shade and the sun with the car being cool to the touch both times. Unfortunately, I won't buy this again until they improve it somehow.

A Pro League Killer to get would be CITROL 266 !!!

Is purple power clear coat safe?

The 303 still isn't available in Canada as far I can tell. I want to compare the 303 to some other si02 spray sealants to see if it can out perform them in real world testing.

hi jimbo what a great video just want to ask dis question if i have a ceramic coating on my car for three months and i want to add graphine coating on it pls it is possible or what can i do nd a tip from u

Adams charges you twice as much just to put their sticker on anything.

I would rather have it smell bad so I would be extra careful..

Graphene coating is still not mature. I’ll stick to ceramic spray coating until graphene is more improved. Great work! Keep it up! 👍

303 is the bomb.

Usually if I'm tryin to strip sealants or waxes completely ill superchargw a strip wash withe a little bit of purple power and it works everytime. Just have to watch how much you add and make sure you completely rinse off the residue.

Doesn't smell that bad I just applied to all my glass after polishing the windshield. You can layer the product but no benefit more then 3 layers and the chemist said wait 24 hours between coats.

Why not do a real world test on a vehicle? How many people will do the same torture test on their car (using the exact same products for the test as shown in the video). How does using these same products and cleaners reflect what happens to the vehicle? And why spend so much time complaining about the same of the tested items; did that really affect their ability to protect the car? Did the torture tests really reflect how many times people will wash and clean their car the number of times in the video and how closely together?

Didn’t turtle wax seal and shine last longer than this?

these are okay, but ill stick with my $8 seal and shine. can these be used as a ceramic topper?

Obviously the 303 out performed the Adams. But every time you wiped the chemical in you did it 2 to 1 on the 303 side. Also you are the only one out of all the other videos that have reviewed the 303 graphing coating that had said it's not very slick and the towel drags when buffing it off.

I tried the Black Magic and so far a couple days later still looks good. I don't have my hopes up with that one, people say Black Magic is bottom of the barrel. Looking at its MSDS sheet I could not find any mention of graphene at all. Just 3 ingredients unless I am missing something or the sheet is not complete. The ingredients are deionized water, glycol, and a very tiny amount of lye. When it is sprayed onto a white car, I see some gray but that could be dye (I hear rumors that cheap graphene products have dyes in them to make them convincing). The water beading and repellence is good but not what you would expect with a graphene product. I am convinced that some Dawn dish soap would obliterate the Black Magic fairly easily! I am thinking that there is indeed some Black Magic at work but not a good kind, more like smoke and mirrors really. This doesn't make me a cynic about graphene and other coatings at all I will point out! It just shows that there are some things out there that may not be what you might expect them to be. It is for these reasons that some people call graphene a "buzzword". They don't think you would ever really see anything like that in a product! It should be pointed out that those people have been made cynical by cheap oil additives that didn't do anything or work as expected, often because of misleading claims of certain benefits of using it.

303 is very good. More durable.

My lazy method: spray graphene coating on wet surfaces. Wipe. Flush. Wipe to dry. Much faster then dry application. Buffing it off on dry surface took too much time 😂

Come on dude....the fruity smelling stuff doesn't last. Stop bashing because of smell. It works....who cares what it smells like.

My question to you - you do not wear gloves to protect your skin when applying coatings - "If its on you, it's in you"!

Oh noooooo, again the blower has the bird inside?

I really feel like 303 is being marketed wrong as a coating. It's really just a good new age sealant.

Love your cheap versus expensive videos but I have to pick on one thing. It’s not this “verse” that, it’s “versus”. It’s like calling your Fathers sister your “ant”, she’s not an insect she’s your “aunt”. ... LOL! .... Keep up the good work and bring us more of these comparisons!!

can you do a test on chemical guys new hydrospeed

To me it seems the video maker is pretty biased tbh. Take note of the word "seems" In the video the 303 side looks better every time, so either the video maker doesn't see it, or I fail to see something the camera isn't picking up .

Not even a good test ur comparing 303 which is more of a quick detailer that adds a bit of protection to adams ceramic spray coating which is actually a ceramic coating just in a watered down form but still provides about a year or two of protection where the 303 is probably about 6 months I’d go with adams over any other product for their spray coating any day. This comparison actually seems a bit bias

I only really care about smell on interior products. Jimbo if you want the all time worst smelling is wowo crystal seal. In my experience the more the chemical smell equal better durability

Camera position a little off. Otherwise liked the video.

It will be close but 303 should edge it out in durability

I'll stick AGAIN, with my seal and shine, new formula. Way easier to work with than the original version.

303 will win hands down

The smell is just chemicals evaporating. The ones the smell fruity are just mixed with scents. I'd rather deal with chemical smell that way I don't want to inhale anymore than I have to. All these products should be used in a well ventilated area.

Adams win its so obvious, comparing to price 303 is winner coz more cheaper and more or less same effect. But adams has better hydrophobic.

I’ve not tried either of these products but from your video it looks like Adams is doing a lot better than the 303 maybe is just the optics of the camera . It seems your trying to intentionally down play the higher cost product .

Looks like the 303 hung on longer

Lol. Money grab. Look up the price of graphene. If they contain any, it’s a trace amount.

They are not identical. You are biased obviously.

too many fricken ads

I feel all these graphene are bullshit honestly