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Awesome thanks for that! Spewing they didn't sponsor you. I reckon one of the higher quality brand ones would be silly if they didn't offer their products for comparison and give you a subscriber code ;)
Thanks for posting this video! Definitely helpful to learn about ceramic coating. I have a quick question. I brought my car to a shop for ceramic coating. They were not able to get rid of all scratches supposedly some of them were too deep. My question is should I be able to feel those scratches after the ceramic coating is applied or should the scratches be filled up and flattened?
No wonder car dealerships charge so much for this when you buy a new car off the lot. Only thing is im sure by now the patent has expired and many companies make their own version so how do we know if its of quality?
Avalon King is the cheap coating lol. I just bought 3 packs for $35 each (it was a 50% off deal tho). They usually go for $50 to $70 for 2-5 year protection. One bottle should do a whole car
@@bigsmoke4357 my suggestion is stay away from the cheaper brands. A true ceramic is a nightmare to remove if it's subpart quality gives you issue upon installation.
Can we just give this guy props for washing the control paint, drifting it, washing it, mudding it, and rinsing it... Then doing it all again with ceramic? Then the cut and microscope... Jesus! Please give this man a like!
There’s better videos out there of actual professional detailers who apply ceramic coatings correctly. The performance of the coating could’ve been miles better than what he’s shown.
@@JJS432 Note a single so called professional has done this type of display on ceramic coating though. they can talk it up as much as they want, but its not until you see it under a microscope, you realise it actually is a coating, not just some wax, not evenguys as big as Ammo NYC have done this type of test.
@@Michael-jq5pf 50 bucks is quite a bit in India. And its ceramic coating is of no use unless you do colour correction and proper polish before applying. That ramps up the costs. Also, not everyone has garages for keeping the car away from dust during curing. So we have to go to a detailer which again is expensive. 🙄
I think it would’ve been a more even test if you had polished both sides and then do the ceramic coating on just one side. Curious what the results would have been
Because the algorithms don't want to work. and for RU-vid channel normally has the same type of content all the time, then RU-vid Just dumps that video in front of all the subscribers all at once. But since my video subjects are very diverse, there is a recipe involved, and in order for me to get a lot of views I need to post more videos more often. I'm glad you notice !
Much more than that. This man is really a lot. Good craftsman, good researcher, good storyteller. His experiments are well thought out and really well told. I mean the man's got a dedicated slow motion camera for a couple of shots! He has everything in his arsenal to become huge, only thing is that RU-vid recommendations suck.
@@insanitybe lol... No way. And actually other RU-vid channels mostly have very low audio levels. I do my audio levels the same as for broadcast tv, so when you turn the volume all the way up on your phone it is very loud so you can hear it, that's actually how those levels are meant to be. you ever watch a video on your phone and turn the volume all the way up and find yourself trying to turn it higher and higher but that's as loud as it goes and you still can't hear it? That's why those audio level recommendations exist..
How did you know ? , But Yeah ... It was rough, and my mom and my stepfather were very abusive.. the one thing I had going for me was it that I can build and fix just about anything growing up like literally. That's basically why I've had like 22 major surgeries. Thanks for the kind words
Just a suggestion: ceramic coating does not compete against no coating. It competes against classic wax or polimer based coatings, so it would be nice to include those in these tests.
Also there are spray-on ceramic waxes on the market, which are extremely easy to apply. Of course it is not as strong as the concentrated stuff used in this video, but way better than anything else on the market. I would love to see that under microscope as well.
@@DigiTuben Non-ceramic coating lasts 3-6 months. Spray-on ceramic lasts at least a year. I reapply 1x a year, and based on the water beading/shedding, it is still on. That’s my personal experience. There are a few tests on youtube, for example Project Farm.
@@WarpedYT Yeah, that is pretty crazy how that junk can stick to a car like that. I've been interested in ceramic coating for awhile. Just haven't bit the bullet on it yet. It has come down in pricing over the past few years, which is good. Curious, could you possibly do a test of this stuff on glass? Then cut the glass like you did the plastic case to show profile view?
and also have half of that powerbank coated and half not, to compare with and without coating on the same surface (and with the same background colour). What's more, under the microscope we see that the "ceramic crystals" are scarcely distributed, and the rest of the coating is made from some other substance (maybe a kind of resin?).
Yeah, #1 50/50 split and whole surface buffed #2 did not throw mud on the whole surface, just the corner. #3 did not do the finger and weighed towel test. #4 did not finished by properly showing end result #5 TOO much editing, anything could have been done to it after the mud, Me thinks this was disguised add, not buying it
No. The panels are cleaned with isopropyl alcohol before the ceramic coating is applied. Meaning there is no wax left on the paint at the time of application.
*I'm giving away a few New Unopened Ceramic Coating kits I have leftover to the first ones who can spot the CLUES in this video. It has to do with continuity and mistakes here are the 3 timestamps where the clues are **00:24**-**00:35** and **15:03**-**15:24** , **05:14**-**05:28*
The Mercedes-Benz is a new vehicle very similar to the one from the first episodes of the see-through vehicle. If not a replacement vehicle that looks very similar to the other one from those episodes, then the Merc has had some serious fixing up done to it. ? Man I loved this video on ceramic coatings. I would love to see a similar video that looks at how ACF50 forms to protect a corrosion inhibiting, preventing & halting layer to metals such as engine blocks, A-arms, knuckle joints, suspension parts etc on vehicle and motorbikes. It is widely claimed to be the best product for such applications but very few actual rigorous tests conducted here on RU-vid, and to my knowledge none conducted in the signature Warped Perception style of taking testing to the extremes. Thanks for the upload man!
I got my truck ceramic coated about 3years ago now. I get a lot of friends that are just like, did you just wash this, and most of the time it’s been two weeks since it was. It really does help in keeping the truck clean.
so basically it's just like the old timers quick head gasket repair, liquid glass (sodium silicate)? used to be able to go to the pharmacy and get a large bottle, toss it in a cooling system (with just water) run it and drain it out and it would dry to a glass like consistency after a day. if it is in fact, wow is it being over charged for.
The traditional corrosion inhibitor in coolant is also silicate based, probably works similarly but a much lower concentration. (different to the new type, which uses organic acid based corrosion inhibitors)
Yes it's pretty much that, you can also buy it for covering glass windows, it's called quartz coating if I'm not mistaken, and again- it costs way less that this crap, as in you guy a jug for a price of the little bottle.
@@piciu256 it is not the same. Liquid glass is Sodium n-silicate which is water-borne. The ceramic he is using is most likely polysilazane which is not compatible with water. I know this because I manufacture ceramic coatings for automotive paint use. You cannot use “liquid glass” (sodium n-silicate) for this purpose. It is good however for coating very porous surfaces like concrete.
Fun tests, but I thought you’d leave 1/2 of the buffed out part of the hood untreated. Some of that dirt/mud shedding may have been simply due to a smoother surface. (Minor criticism aside, this is an awesome video!)
hey, i just wanteed to say it would've been a more fair comparison if you buffed up and smoothed the site without the coating, this way the difference might be due to difference in paint scratches.
Wow that's really cool! But it makes me wonder how it wears, like if it starts chipping after a while, and what you could do about it then. Maybe that would remove the paint with it? Or maybe it rubs away before chipping in years of use. I have no clue. :)
why haven't polished the other part too before the test? shiny surface doesn't attract dirth, i think this ceramic coating is useless like other ceramic treatment for engine and so on.. much better to apply scratch resistant transparent paint, Bye friend.
I agree with the OP. More tests should have been done. I would have done. * Untreated paint * polished paint * polished and ceramic coated And maybe throw in *untreated paint + ceramic coating just to see how it will look and act.
@@I_know_what_im_talking_about Not necessary to do tests. Results are already pretty much well known in the detailing industry. Untreated paint: Anything will simply grab onto the paint and the paint is easily stained, contaminated, dirty, etc. Paint will degrade quite fast. Polished paint: I assume you mean simply polishing and then leaving it as it is. I am also going to assume just a typical consumer grade polish (because there are many varieties of polish out there). The polishing oils will remain on the paint for a little while, maybe a few days. It will act as some sort of a very, very lousy protection on the paint. For the most part it will still be easily stained, contaminated, dirty, etc. Polished and ceramic coated. Again I assume simply polishing and no extra steps before and after. Then ceramic coating. The ceramic coating will not properly bond to the paint leading to somewhat poor results. The ceramic coating will not be as effective, will not be as durable, and may fail very early at some parts. Untreated and ceramic coated. The ceramic coating will perform very poorly as seen on video. It will not bond properly and may fail at a much earlier time. All this is under the assumption products/services/techniques used are consumer grade (basically some bloke with some product in some garage or porch).
@@Kyle-kc8cw - whoa man, why are you automatically assuming polished paint as meaning - literally polished and left on the paint without buffing off. Without an IPA wipe down to remove polishing oils. Polished and prepped paint (to receive a coating or freakin dirt thrown at it) is what I was referring too. That way the paint is smooth (clay barred to remove bonded surface contaminants PRIOR to the polishing) and dirt won’t stick to it as easily because there’s nothing to grab on to... At least that’s how I imagine it. 🤷🏻♂️
I have a question: When you touched/prodded the pan, the coating started to flake. What will happen to the car bonnet that has been coated and you apply force to the area? Will it also flake or was that just the coating not cured enough in the pan? This would be a good test if a stone would to hit the coating... would it flake and continue to flake or would it withstand the force?
I think it broke so easily in the pan because the layer was so thick and it might not have cured all the way. Also you saw how flexible it was when he bent it? I don't think it'll break on a real application. Another note: the pan is coated with teflon which is really slippery, and the coating did not seem to adhere well to it. Maybe if you get a really bad rock-chip, but it seems strong enough.
You have to prep the surface so that what you apply sticks to it. On a frying pan there usually is teflon or something that prevents stuff from sticking to it.
Yeah, but the name is misleading. A ceramic material relies on it's molecular structure to have it's hardness properties. This cold liquid applied does not have any of the properties of any ceramic material. Also, you polished the paint before the application which in it self would already have a lot of benefits alone. I'd like to see proof in the claims of hardness, like a real proper hardness test. I like your channel, but this test was rather inconclusive. I wax my car once a year and get the same results as in the video. And I don't need to poslish and alcohol clean it to do it.
You cannot do paint correction with this snake oil on your paint. To be honest, a good wax would have done 90% of this job, the wax just needs to be applied more regularly.
Effin hell, the people around you have to properly hate you. The owner of the SUV at 3:15 and anyone else downwind, same for the second test. Cabin filter bust, god forbid they had a window open :D
I'm curious how it looks on the car as it degrades over time. Like flaking clear coat? I imagine getting it off for a reapplication 5 years down the road would be a royal pain.
@@Lili-xq9sn but what happens when this time comes? It starts to crack or something? After this period do you have to do something to remove or you can apply another layer on top? If you have to remove, how?
Yip. Nice for people leasing a car for 3 or 4 years (next persons problem). If you intend keeping the vehicle for some time, rather apply a good wax on a regular basis. It is just as effective if you apply it regularly enough. You cannot do paint correction with this garbage on your paint. Once it is on, you are screwed. Steer clear!
Well if you spot the one clue in the vid I will send you a kit free, all of my tests only ended up using one kit, I bought the package deal, 10 kits, so I have 9 kits left over that are brand new, I'm going to give them away.
Wow! Great video man! Thanks so much for going through all of this for us :) I'm sure this video is gonna boost sales for many and better yet, help people like me protect their cars that they can't seem to keep out of muddy situations 😅🙌
I mean, i figured it was the real deal when they said it was for boats too (with the option to buy in large quantities) but this pretty much sells it. For those wondering, salt water would take a pi** on snake oil. Edit: i wonder if there's any relation with coatings that are used on high end glass... mirrors, lenses. Specifically, i wonder if this coating would improve or mess the surface of a mirror for a telescope. Hm.
I loved the microscope work! Great way to show the benefit of the ceramic coating. I was a little confused with the test on the car. Why the initial test on the whole car, then tape it off 70/30 and do paint correction on the 70 side only before applying the ceramic coating? Wouldn't you have gotten a better compare starting with clean paint on the whole car and doing a 50/50 split and only doing the test once? Don't get me wrong, I'd still buy the ceramic coating, but I'm a little confused about what you were trying to show.
Coated my car earlier this year. I'd say if it's a new car it's a must. Older cars I'd say go for it if you're lazy like me, however if you're happy to be cleaning every week stick with it.
In fact it was a test between unpolished and polished plus coated side.. If you wanted to be a fair test you should at least polish the other side too.. It was great job but this way is inaccurate.. 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah that's a tough one, because that would take a long time if there was a Polish side but not coated and then the Polish side coated I don't think it would be night and day but probably after like a week or two of driving then we would see a huge difference. But I don't have the patience for that, that's why I use the microscope I skipped all those tests and went straight to the real one whether the coating is on the surface of the paint or not
👎Not really a fair comparison. The non treated side was not buffed smooth and so already had a disadvantage due to its rough texture. A fair comparison would involve the whole bonnet buffed, one side waxed the other ceramic coated. 👎 TBF I did appreciate the microscopic examination.
Maybe so, but the main goal of this video was to see if the stuff really does work and if there is an actual layer of coating on top of the paint... this wasn't a product review or a paid promotion, that was the goal of the video. But you do have some great points, maybe I should do and I'll coming video where I compare ceramic versus wax versus non-coated but first completely buff the bonnet.
i went off road driving with my cuzzin once, he had coating done on his car. He came out like new with no mud sticking on the panels while mine look like its been burried since world war 2
do a collab with Mercedes with slow motion see thru car drift (drone w/ phantom camera and a phantom camera on ground) on one of their future commercials!
First time I see do a cross section of Ceracoating in all the videos I watched about it. Really shows that you're not paying for snake oil. Pretty cool man, got a new sub! Thanks a lot!
How did it coat and hold up on the part of the hood where the clear coat was totally gone? I always wondered if it could add some shine to those types of areas.
That is amazing! seriously the best review of ceramic coating I have ever seen! I have always been skeptical thinking its just a slightly better version of wax. I think I need to go ceramic coat my car now.
Too cool! Speaking as someone who now has their first ceramic-coated car, it makes a massive difference. I haven't had to use soap on it once -- just a power washer and microfiber cloth. Everything just wipes off of it, it's amazing
I don't have a car with ceramic coating yet either but I probably will in the spring I'm going to ceramic coat my Supra, but I have heard that exact same thing from many people saying that ever since they put ceramic coating they don't even use soap at all they just rinse the car off, pretty cool if you ask me, I would imagine that an automatic car wash would work a lot better as well.
@@byker4lyfe1 Google is your friend. Graphene is the successor of ceramic. Scientifically, graphene is the strongest you can get today, stronger than diamond. But it doesn’t mean that a graphene based consumer product is exactly the same. It is promising though, but it is a new product and not much durability tests has been completed just yet.
Too much diversity not enough videos, so a lot of people who subscribe to a certain subject get angry if the next video is not within the subject they subscribe for if that makes any sense. Since I don't put out a lot of videos they know that they're going to have to wait for like a month for something that is in their interest.. however I am hoping to know put a stop to that and put out many more videos.. these videos are tough the projects are tough not having the right equipment is tough so yeah I've been working at that for a couple years now but I think it's finally coming together..
This man *WP* is a friggin genius & I mean that in the best possible way (he just scares the *hell* out of me from time to time but he's never boring be well and safe Bro!)
@@byker4lyfe1 That's what I was afraid of, but I think I caught it at just the right time. I'm going to do a full oil change and check it and the filter for metal. wasn't just oil this lady ran it without coolant too! I learned a valuable lesson from that experience, Don't play into someone you barely know's pitty act.
Unless you also buffed the other side of the car before applying the coating you have proved nothing. This could just as well be proving that a buffed car sheds dirt better than an unbuffed car.
That’s wild and thank you for doing this video. What happens as it starts to wear off? Does it look like chipping clear coat? Lots of prep involved to apply it right....lots
As someone that applies ceramic coatings for a living great video. I cringed when you threw the mud lol. Really appreciated the microscope views. Thank You!
Lol....it was a risky move for sure, I'm just really glad I was able to pull off that microscope footage, I have been trying to do that for a long time now and originally I was going to use an electron microscope but it just doesn't let you visualize it as good as this type of microscope.
This is the best video of the results of ceramic coating on RU-vid. Cross sectioning is the best method. We do this all the time with multilayered circuit boards for each layer and plating. Awesome job!!
This is an amazing video. Well done, as a ceramic coating installer it is awesome to have a video I can share with my customers to show that I'm not selling them snake oil.
