👉 P R O D U C T S U S E D: Opti-Coat MDR (Mineral Deposit Remover) - theragcompany.com/products/opti-coat-mdr TRC Ultra Clay Bar - theragcompany.com/products/ultra-clay-bar GTECHNIQ W9 - theragcompany.com/products/gtechniq-w9-water-spot-remover RUPES UNO Advanced - theragcompany.com/products/rupes-uno-advanced
Can we please, please, please throw those garbage hex lights in the trash? I will personally pay for some CREE lights and fly out there with Mike F to replace that junk!
So to spend all that money for Ceramic Coating that doesn't even protect my car from just water is actually a waste of money... i stick with waxing my car every couple months
why did you not use uno pure ? wouldn't it have optically removed the waterspots without leaving something behind and changing the coating behaviour? And second yvan lacroix always says you have to remove the minerals before polishing otherwise your just grinding the minerals into the clear coat and they will reappear after some time and temperature change ? :)
Yup, and he said that polishing drives the minerals further into the paint. But these guys at TRC don't reply to any comments. These guys are tone Def when it comes to YT comments.
Now the real test is to put this out in the sun and see which section of the hood comes back with water spots. Heating up the panel will be the true test on what really works.
20:52 why not another, dedicated MDR video, on test panel, where let sit for 24+h? 🤷♂ you also could control the level of accumulated deposits, if you were to place it at your sprinkler (maybe even for longer than this customer did)...
Watched a water spot removal video from a very well known detailer right before this one. According to his video, machine polishing will make it look like the minerals have disappeared but they will most likely reappear in the future. His take is to use a water spot remover 1st and then follow up with a polisher. Either way, both were very informative videos!!
I learned this very late. I polished my car twice and today i saw same water spots again. I will wash my car with Car Pro Descale and polish again. I hope it will be last.
That coatings water behavior didnt look amazing to me, but it still looked alright. I will say those water spots definitely affected the coating negatively in the water behavior.
9:29 when i asked Gtechniq's support what do they actually mean by "re-wash", whether with : water, or ONR/rinseless, or IPA, or shampoo? she literally said "re-shampoo"! which i find wrong, because i've tried shampoo and rinseless, but could not see difference. only benefit of no risk inducing new water-spots from normal shampoo wash, when used rinseless.
@@thugsy15 the W-9 will remove the minerals from the spot. If the spot etched in the paint now it is safe to polish. If the water spot etched deep into the clear coat you can enhance the s as spot with polishing but it will always be there.
I am trying to get water spots from my powdercoated Alloy window frames. I managed to remove some with Clay but scared to use anything elese. Suggestions please. Clay is taking a long time (Edit - this is house windows)
what ceramic coatings on the car?..um... Uno Advanced 😅. you polished away the coating and replaced it with the uno. only question is can you oanel prep and ceramic coat over Uno Advanced?
The side with the polisher used isnt beading water like the other sections anymore. 😂 I think the mechanical part of that process took some of that ceramic coating off.
Great idea, but the test should be done with a polish that doesn't have protection in it. Kind of tough to tell if the hydrophobics are from Uno or the coating.
Was always under the impression from other vids you arent really supposed to clay a coated vehicle, unless absolutely necessary…is there truth to that and will synthetic clay damage a coating and its durability?
Interesting how the vinagre active or reset the coating and make the water bounce back ! Sometime experiments like this we can discovery how other products work !
Not if the beads got dried under the sun. Found out the hard way last week end. I now think ceramic coating is pointless. If I cant remove spots by chemical then they will polish which could remove coating so then they would reapply. Now wtf was the ceramic coating for.
For a waxed/polished shine without waxing, but still possibly with water spots if water beads are allowed to dry. Water spots maintenance/removal is a different topic independent to the waxed appearance of the ceramic coating. For perspective, water spots can happen with or without ceramic coating, but it's the waxed/polished appearance step of detailing that is already produced by the ceramic coating.
Not knocking Gtechniq but it is way overpriced! Griots water spot remover is much cheaper at $13.99 for a 22oz bottle versus $22.95 for Gtec's 16oz bottle. I can buy lunch with the savings and get the same performance.
