Water beading after graphene coating

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Finally got some rain and water on the paint after my coating. This is a couple shots of the hood just over a week after being coated with nano-brite graphene infused ceramic 7 year coating.

I hope to get some more shots this weekend after I do my first maintenance wash.

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Proves it works good :D
 

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Looks good man!
 
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Overall, how much did it run you and about how long did it take?


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The coating cost $800 canadian or $650 US. Now thats probably not what most charge as other places wants more then 1k and up to $2500.

My truck was gone for 4 days and I think most of it was curing time something like 36 hours before I could take it back then no washing for a week on top of that.
 

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That's the graphene in the coating doing it's job.
 

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That looks freakin great! Now the waiting game start to see how long it will really last!
 
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Looks fantastic. I wonder if it will bead like that years 5, 6, 7. I have a local shop tinting my windows on my 2022 Rebel and they are hounding me to coat it. I'm just very skeptical about paying $1400 bucks for a new wax no one has any long term history on. ANYTHING exposed to the elements gets dirty.
I really can't decide what to do with mine.

My black 2017 ram looked like a mirror when I turned it in with 65k miles on it. Adams polish and patriot wax. 100 bucks for a can that lasts for years. Too many rules about what you can and can not do to the car after the coating as well.

I'm leaning towards keeping it simple. I never last more than 4 years anyways.
 

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Looks fantastic. I wonder if it will bead like that years 5, 6, 7. I have a local shop tinting my windows on my 2022 Rebel and they are hounding me to coat it. I'm just very skeptical about paying $1400 bucks for a new wax no one has any long term history on. ANYTHING exposed to the elements gets dirty.
I really can't decide what to do with mine.

My black 2017 ram looked like a mirror when I turned it in with 65k miles on it. Adams polish and patriot wax. 100 bucks for a can that lasts for years. Too many rules about what you can and can not do to the car after the coating as well.

I'm leaning towards keeping it simple. I never last more than 4 years anyways.
Coat it yourself for a fraction of that $1400. I used Adam's graphene ceramic coating on mine last fall and it looks amazing. I got it on sale when they had a 30% off deal going. Ended up costing me around 60 bucks. I washed, decontamination of paint and polish and then applied. Took some time, but needed to burn vacation and it looks great. My sister had a company do her durango for 899 bucks and that was with full paint correction...so they say. Mine looks way better. It is good to know you did it and did it well. And cheaper. Im gonna do my wife's durango this spring when the weather is good enough.
 
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That is exactly what we’ve decided to do! I love Adam’s products and use their correcting polish, finishing polish and Patriot wax with excellent results on my vintage Porsche
 

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I have been using the SPS Graphene Detail Spray as a sacrificial layer over my ceramic coating. It helps protect and also gives the coating a little more "pop". It usually lasts a couple of months.
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I have been using the SPS Graphene Detail Spray as a sacrificial layer over my ceramic coating. It helps protect and also gives the coating a little more "pop". It usually lasts a couple of months.
Jay
What Ceramic coating did you use?
 

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This time we used Poorboy's. We redo it about once a year and try different products. I top it with the Graphene spray or on special occasions I'll top it with Polish Angel High Gloss if going to a show.
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I just did my first Carpro BC06 spray coating and then finished two cars with BC04 and you want to talk about a shine and a beading, it was crazy good! I applied it to a C8 Vette and a New Avalon.
 
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