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ALL the big ones are salesmen acting as detailers.

@@annagraham6204 I just give my honest opinion. I'm not sponsored by anyone especially not car care companies.

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Got your back! Shooting another diy video on a zl1 Corvette currently! It's basically putting what I talk about in this video into action so you see the steps happen

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Thanks for browsing the Status Channel! Gyeon makes wetcoat for clarification. Also gtechniq should be releasing exo v5 soon!!! I'm very excited to use it. I hear good things.

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@@STATUSDETAIL most definitely!

Glad you found me! Lots of videos you might like including a review of mohs Evo coming out now! Just released at 9am. I'd use ceramic based products on ceramic. I'd rather see you use exlizer or ceramic detailer or even something like turtle wax spray ceramic detailers. I've never been a bead maker guy but using it on ceramic coated cars seems silly and the company doesn't have a strong history with ceramic. Onr to me is more of a cleaning product. I'd rather see you use gyeon quick detailer or ceramic Detailer or cur. Or carpro reload or elixir. I've been trying out ethos something something lol. Forgot the name but it's Orange. That's seemed to be decent too.

Love it! Ceramic is awesome! What's your go to for maintenance product's out of curiosity?

I also like to do my own tests, because sometimes we are surprised by the results. Example I have meguiar's paint protect 365, which is a polymer product, alone it is nothing extraordinary, it applies easily, is very soft and smooth but the hydrophobic effect is not great, it is more sheeting than beautiful beading. But after some tests I realized that it could be an excellent topper!. On ceramic coatings that are not very smooth, not very soft and not very slippery, meguiar's paint protect binds perfectly. I had a cheap ceramic coating (xml ceramic & Graphene Coating) whose hydrophobic effect is not great, and to the touch in the hand it is very catchy, and it is a sheeting coating, when I topper it with meguiar's paint protect 365, the next day I had a sick hydrophobic effect!, crazy pearls, with pearls that rolled on the paint leaving a completely dry wake!. Also very resistant because I had trouble releasing the hydrophobic effect 😮 as if a not very smooth and slippery coating was like an excellent base coat for meguiar's paint protect 365 and reticulated as it should be. It's so weird at times the results obtained.

Glad you have a system you like 👍

Have not tried his products! I'll keep that in mind tho!

My pleasure! Yes I do. Probably don't use it lol. I'm sure it gets the job done but better stuff is available. I'm also not sure what soap your talking about. I think they sell like 173 soaps lol.

@@STATUSDETAIL yeah - fair point. specifically the honeydew snow foam. thanks.

@David Zaret I'm sure it will give lubrication to reduce swirls and help loosen dirt. I'm just not a fan. If you have some then use it! Just maybe don't buy it again lol

Agreed. And I'd love caring for it. Lots of my customers with expensive cars definitely enjoy doing diy stuff to tho. Very therapeutic and relaxing for them. Gets them away from stressful work and spend nice quiet time with a car they love 🙂

I had a new RS5 and now an M4 but if I took it to someone to have it cleaned every time I wouldn’t be able to afford those cars. I like cleaning cars myself anyway but still wouldn’t throw money away unnecessarily. Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves lol 😂 Great video btw 😊

@@supraian1983 lol. No one comes to me routinely. Not even my really wealthy customers. Just unnecessary. They come 1-3 times a year for maintenance details. Outside of that they wash it or do a hand car wash place that's pretty good

I believe I'll have a video coming on that product very soon. But the fast short version is yes that product can be very helpful too!

@@STATUSDETAILdid you ever create this video?

@@FlagnarBoobz not yet!

Also do you have any preferences between Gyeon Ceramic Detailer and Gyeon Cure? i ended up buying ceramic detailer because i've heard many people comment negatively on cure because it streaks easily, and mind you, i have a glossy black car. Would you still recommend Gyeon cure over Gyeon ceramic detailer. I also bought Gyeon quick detailer, with the idea that i would use ceramic detailer every other wash.

@@easytiger266 ceramic detailer is great. As is cure. Cure is just stronger and more durable. You can also slightly diltue cute to kinda sorta make ceramic detailer. No wrong option between those. Wetcoat is a great ceramic topper but to get a true "topper" you'd want something like exo from Gtechniq. You could use that annually or every 6 months on a clean car. Basically whenever you want a big boost in gloss and hydrophobics. Use tar and iron x when you feel like you have tar and iron depots you should not use it for fun. If you go like a year without needing it you could do a annual wash with them to ensure surface is perfect then do exo for example. If you build up a lot of iron or hit fresh tar then obviously they will be great Thanks for watching and shopping my store!!

@@STATUSDETAIL Awesome!! Thank you for the quick reply. I feel like i’ve got a good handle on things after watching so many of your videos. Please keep em coming!

Brake buster or gyeon tire cleaner. If you do not have carbon ceramic brakes you can deep clean with iron x. Hope that helps

Totally different stuff. It's infused with ceramic. It's actually designed as a topper for existing ceramic but works as stand alone protection too.

Everything you said was about right but you definitely don't want to wax it then ceramic coat it. After the clay I'd recommend a light polish on the car. Something with mild abrasive. Then gyeon prep. Then your new ceramic.

@@STATUSDETAIL sonax good? Thanks 👍

@@gust9464 sonax makes some ok products but I prefer carpro and Gyeon for maintenance

Hey Chris! Tell me more about the car. How many miles is it driven. It's driven daily in winter during snow and salt? Is it parked outside? Garaged?

@@STATUSDETAIL it’s a Tesla, Model 3 Dual Motor, wasn’t daily driven the first year but now it is, I tried to keep it off the road when it was really bad outside in the winter but it does see snow and salt. Have about 28k miles, garage kept. Typical Tesla for the time it was built with thin crappy paint. - lol

@@cmwalona Sounds like you're doing a great job on maintenance! Wecoat is so good and given the milage and garage kept you should be in decent shape with the routine care your doing. The ceramic is 4 years old now so I would recommend some kind of heavier hitting maintenance soon. As in exo or a similar topper type product from another company. Q2 wax would also be great before we see snow and salt. Wetcoat and cure and products like that are super awesome and essential to your lineup. But nothing replaces the semi permanent refresh of something like exo to keep everything in Harmony.

100% agreton the therapeutic part and I dig all the products you are using. My own tests with c2v3 seemed off. I do need to try it again as I'm convinced I had a bad bottle or something. I know lots of professional detailer's like that product tho. I'm just a big fan of gyeon for maintenance. And carpro obviously because I sell elixir 👍

I don't really recommend meguirs products. What I recommend is on StatusDetailStore.com

Great question. Yes it's all safe on PPF 👍👍

Touchless is a fantastic start. I'm going to make a video on this literal topic! But the idea is a touchless wash then pull into a garage if you have it and finish up with a ik foamer and ceramic Detailer. You can also do a coin operated self serve wash and then drive home and dry the rest of the water off and apply something like cure. Ideally you do this on a day above 40° maybe even 50 if you're lucky. If it's above freezing you can do a full wash in your driveway if you're prepared to be a little bit cold. In a case like this I wouldn't skip any steps I would do a full normal wash with all the normal products.

Citrus foam and g wash are both very good. I've been using them recently actually and about to release into my store too 👍

Gyeon evo is the most durable option but it's also basically re-ceramic coating the car. Can coach your most durable option and would make a lot of sense. Key two wax is a great option but it's the least durable in most quote unquote sacrificial. Would I typically do after about a 1-year mark is reapply EXO on my personal cars or I'm customer cars to come back for maintenance. Typically they have CSL on EXO. So we basically service the top coat and reapply it. Everything we're talking about is going to add new sacrificial protection so there's really no wrong option here but if you're looking for an additional six 12 months of strong durability I would say can coat or EXO are my true recommendations

@@STATUSDETAIL Thanks..Going to grab a couple things from your store. Just watched the Bugatti Chiron video.....impressive af

@@doughope761 wait until someone gives me a new hypercar and we do a my kind of crazy on that start to finish!!! No one scheduled for that yet but I believe it's a Matter of time! Thanks for shopping my store 🙂🙂

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I'd wash it or leave it. If you park outside all the time it's going to get dusty. If you park inside and gets more "normal" dust from inside a garage I'm more likely to say quick detailer is ok. But outside dust builds up fast and will be a forever battle every 24 hours

@@STATUSDETAIL it's a garaged car except a few days each week when it's parked outside all day while I'm at work. Please know, I'm immensely appreciative of your response to my question. Knowing the answer, regardless of "yes" or "no," is great! Thanks, again, for your reply!

@@rand49er if it sits inside a few days after a wash and gets light garage dust settling id say you can quick detailer it. If you drive it 4 times and it's dusty then you should wash it. Especially on any dark colored cars. Lighter cars can get away with more but anytime your wiping stuff your risking swirl marks unless your washing correctly with lots of lubrication. Then it's considerably safer.

Nice! It's important to find products you enjoy 👍👍

I prefer carpro reload 2.0 or cure from gyeon

CSL and exo on motorcycle. Yes👍 Cure can be used as drying aid after blow dry or just as a spray wipe wax after drying. Prep is used to remove residue. That's it's main job. You should not need it before every cure application unless for example you did a wash with tar remover. Then I might want prep to really ensure I got everything off residue wise Preps main intended use is to remove polishing residue. So after paying correction you would use prep. Prep makes the surface completely perfect and clean of any residue or chemicals and then you can apply ceramic or sealant

Awesome! Thank you .

I have never heard of it actually!

This is a great question! The answer is very simple You can absolutely dial in your paint and then for example use wet coat and cure repeatedly and keep the car in incredible shape. If you end up using a harsh chemical to wash your car you will strip that much faster if you get a little busy and aren't able to wash the car for a month or two it'll end up stripping everything potentially. In harsh weather or you wash with harsh chemicals because you're getting lots of contamination. The same car with a base layer of a real ceramic coating that's being maintenanced with those strong sealants will not see any issues in the same above situations. Real ceramic coatings will always be more hydrophobic more scratch resistant more chemical resistant give UV resistance in overall last a very long time. But just because we have that on the car doesn't mean we should treat it like it has some kind of permanent armor shield and neglect it on the maintenance side.

Hi Robert! Thanks for checking out my vids and subing to the channel!! All awesome products listed so your doing a great job!! When you reapply exo just do a solid in depth wash. Then use gyeon prep or carpro eraser to ensure the surface is totally clean. Then apply exo. If the surface seems totally perfect you can skip the Gyeon prep step. If your concern is about polishing out light imperfections that's a little more in depth of an issue. Basically you do a fast light polish with low abrasive products. But I could write a paper on this part so I'll leave it at that for now lol.

@@STATUSDETAIL Much appreciated! Looking forward to the growth of your channel!

@@RA-ry4xm me too! Haha. Chasing down 5K subs!

The wax is going to debond automatically so it's not going to stay on very long. If it's already been a few weeks and at least one wash it's probably already gone. If you use a strong soap like car pro lift or gyeon foam and then follow that with a normal car soap I would say you'll probably strip most of that wax off

Hey Chris. Im glad the video has helped! What would you like me to make a video on that could help you and your business. Like guides like this? I'd recommend cure or reload 2.0. c2v3 is ok to but not my favorite. Hydro or wetcoat are also super awesome!!

@@STATUSDETAIL Thanks for the info. Now I gotta figure out what to do with this gallon of Bead Maker. I’d be interesting in knowing how the conversation goes with customers that don’t keep up with the maintenance on their coated vehicles. It hasn’t happened yet but I see it as inevitable. After every coating has cured I bring the car back for a post-coating inspection and I give a maintenance wash tutorial to be sure that customers know what products to use and how to safely wash their cars. I’ve reached out to my last coating customer multiple times about bringing his car back in just to make sure the coating is performing as it should be and for the maintenance tutorial but it has been to no avail. I hope he comes back since he admitted that he knows nothing about car maintenance but how would you approach this if he comes back in 6 months and says that his coating has failed?

@@Tranquility_Auto_Detailing say he never comes back... Ever. Not your problem . Say he never comes back ... Until 1 year later or 2 or 3 years. Calls you up. Ceramic isn't beading and swirls all over. Fix it under warranty. You say I'd love to but you never did a single maintenance with me. I have no idea if you washed correct or used good products. If you say it's horribly swirled out it's probably because you washed improperly. I'd love to fix it but I can't do that for free. Maybe help out a little on price but that's your call. Then say I don't recommend you redo it if you plan to never do maintenance and not update your wash process or products or you end up in this frustrating situation again. The trick is to explain this at pick up. Then they know they screwed up when they never come back and never big you

@@STATUSDETAIL Sounds good. I’ll reach out one more time since he does only live 3 minutes from me. I may even make a house call since I’m such a nice guy.

I wonder why the price changed every year. If it was the same service each time that's a bit interesting. If the car needs more then it sounds about right. This is a tough question to answer. If your getting a lot of swirls that are building up then the only way to remove them is polishing. Polishing is abrasive and will remove or at the very least hurt your ceramic durability. The more you polish the more you remove of.the ceramic and eventually you remove it all If your ok with recoating the car after then polish the laiito your desired level then coat it. Otherwise we don't have many options without getting overly complicated for a UKposts comment. Based on your comment it sounds like you should polish with carpro reflect or carpro Ulta cut. Depends how bad the swirls are and what kind of paint you have. Soft/hard. Then apply a new coating like mohs Evo or crystal serum light for example. Then follow steps in this video for your Maintenance.

Thanks so much for the advice. I am seriously thinking of trying to correct it myself after watching your video. Some of the videos on UKposts freak me out but your are very to the point. I just purchased a Griots G9 random orbital buffer. Now I will have to figure out which pads to use and maybe get the carpro and give it a shot.Thanks again.

@@grh5628 I recommend the hdo lake country pads in my store. Blue is for compound/cutting. Orange is for polishing. I'm thinking I should film a paint correction video soon! I'll definitely try to fit that in.

The interesting thing about wetcoat is it's crazy fast and easy to apply. You don't need very much and many people end up having it over s year. But it actually tends to go bad if it sits that long. So you can use it monthly but Likly throw it away at years end. Or use it every wash generously and use all of it. You can't really over use it. That is a great product to use for maintenance 👍👍

Your choice. Both work 👍

Turtle wax hybrid ceramic seems ok from video I have seen on it. I don't recommend any of those and don't offer them or generally like a y of the products those brands make.

You can definitely use v5. I used it today actually. It is very very good. Highly recommended

Yes I would if it was my car 👍

Won't hurt. I'd do a pre foam like lift once a month or a few times a year depending how much driving you do and if it's outside all the time. The extra deep clean is never a bad idea

You can wash with a string soap. Something like carpro lift. You can also try gyeon prep.

Yes definitely! Reload is great! Cure works too. You can use elixir or ceramic detailer from Gyeon too

Only if needed. Iron remover is kinda like clay. I call it chemical clay vs clay bar being mechanical clay. We only clay a car if it needs it. So rough surface or looks to have iron contamination in it. As a general practice if you drive a lot and car sits outside you can iron remover one or two times a year usually. Depends where you live and how the car is being used.

Fluorine is real ceramic. It's what was in gyeon booster there ceramic top coat before they discontinued it.

@@STATUSDETAIL similar with Soft 99 Fusso coat?

@@DilutionRatioOfficial not sure on that one. To my knowledge gyeon was one of the only of not the the only company using flourine in ceramic or now in "wax" Mohs Evo has flourine combined into the formula too. It's not added it's like blended into the DNA of the formula... It's confusing but the website explains it. Lol

I wouldn't use prep. If you want to apply something like exo every year I'd prep before that. I'd try to wash more frequently than 3 months intervals. Try every month if your driving a lot. 3 months is ok for weekend cars not really being driven much

You can use carpro or gyeon. And reload 2.0 is great!

@@STATUSDETAIL thanks! 😁 I have another question. Why can’t you use Gyeon Foam as a regular maintenance prewash snow foam in a foam lance? It says it’s ph neutral when diluted 1:5, so would using it damage or weaken the ceramic coating that’s applied? 🤔

@@dpugelj123 you definitely can. But it's intended use is as a heavy duty soap to soften and release dirt before contact wash. So you would spray the foam again a second time. In my opinion bathe or reset is better at contact wash vs foam or lift being better at the no contact side. At the end of the day you can definitely use only foam if you like Ony personal cars and customer cars we use foam or lift them reset or bathe.

@@STATUSDETAIL I think you just answered my dilemma I had for the last few months after watching countless of videos 😅😇 1. Wash the wheels 2. Rinse the entire car 3. Apply Gyeon Foam and let it dwell for 3-5 min 4. Rinse 5. Wash with a good quality mitt with Carpro Reset or Gyeon Bathe or CFX GSF 6. Rinse 7. Dry 8. Apply Carpro Reload or Gyeon Cure Once every 2 month repeat steps 1. - 6. then: 1. Wash the car with Carpro Descale 2. Rinse 2. Apply Iron X and let it dwell 3. Rinse 4. Apply Tar remover if needed 5. Rinse 6. Apply Gyeon WetCoat 7. Rinse 8. Dry (Sorry for the long post 😂 It’s a daily driver and I don’t have a garage) if I miss anything please correct me or add anything I should add to my routine 😇

@@dpugelj123 I think your process is excellent 👍👍👍

Yes but I would use one product for both. Just my opinion. If Im using different products then I'm using gyeon foam or carpro lift as my pre foam. A purpose built product. Then use barge or reset or gsf for the bucket. Makes more sense in my opinion

In general whether you're in the caring process or it's been 3 months since it was coded the best way to clean off any kind of contamination like that is going to be a pressure wash it off and then blow dry I also really like the IK former so if you spray the foam on there and let it sit it'll basically dissolve everything and then you can wipe it off very gently

I believe it will work well enough but it's not what I would recommend. I'd recommend bathe. Reset. Gsf and or adding gyeon foam or carpro lift when needed. Bathe + and carpro hydro soap are also notable

It can be a great alternative. You just need to be really careful about the install. You need to spray it into the towel in a way that makes it very hard for the mist to get into the air. That over spray mist can get on the car and cause big issues. So it's not advised in small areas with another car close by for example.

​@@STATUSDETAIL Thanks for the fast reply, I recently discovered your channel and im hooked! Subscribed and can't wait for your next uploads!

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Great question and totally easy to get lost in the options! Weekly I'd use wetcoat or hydro! Every 3-6 I'd use q2 wax and cure together. In general use cure whenever you want. Every year I'd recommend applying exo again. It's fast easy and very diy approachable. Ultimately if you want to keep this simple. Use wetcoat weekly bi weekly. Exo annually. Or bi annual.

Clean with brake buster Then use darkside or q2 tire on rubber Statusdetailstore.com

@@STATUSDETAIL Great thank you, that was quick response!

@@oreyesduran my pleasure 🙂

You basically answered all your own questions 👍 Reset bathe Canon should be used regularly. You can 100% use foam or lift as often as you want but they're expensive and you're basically double buying soap every time which is going to hurt your wallet. You can use foam and lift every other wash once a month whatever you want. For me personally I use them every couple months on my personal cars and basically on every car I do a ceramic coating on paint correction PPF etc I just want to be clean when I'm doing other people's cars in those situations. I hope that helps

Thanks that did help a lot. When you do a basic maintainance wash on say your own personal car (not a customer car that it’s in a few times a year) do you use a snow foam at all ?

@@01123581321341 because I'm so busy now every wash is a. Maintenance wash. As in a full on clean of everything. A customer would pay around $350 for that. Every two months or so. I don't wash my cars as often as I should. I literally go over a month without washing them often unfortunately. I do better with this when not in my busy season

For starters pure is a base coat and exo is chemically designed to bond to crystal serum light or crystal serum ultra(top coat). People just make the mistake of using exo as a base coat. It can be a base coat but I don't recommend that. Pure is actually one of my most hated coatings and products of all time. The application is atrocious. It's like spreading honey on your car and then trying to remove it with dry microfibers. Mohs Evo is a pretty good product and I have a video uploaded and scheduled for that. Actually doing a little durability test series on it. Exo is effortless to apply and you really don't use much so it's easy to layer and if you have multiple cars to do it will go a long way. We use exo as a ceramic sacrificial layer. Designed to be reapplied at your maintenance details to ensure maximum water beading all the time. If we polish light marks out exo goes back on. Basically always protecting the base coat. The same system works of you do mohs Evo base coat and top with exo or do syncro Evo. Syncro has mohs and skin. Skin is gyeon version of exo

@@STATUSDETAIL ok great thanks for the education! Keep it coming!

@@larrysing my pleasure 🙂👍

Can you use exo over other brand ceramic coating? My car has a System X base coat but I would like to use a topper like exo

@@albo9122 As far as I know you can, but it would perform best on other Gtechniq products. If you want to do that I would recommend getting your hands on the newly released EXO V5

No I do not.

Theoretically yes. Also all soaps technically degrade wax and sealant protection slowly. But reset is a normal gentle car soap. Something like descale or iron x soap will definitely hit durability significantly. I think the name reset confuses people because they think it's going to fully remove everything on the car and reset it. What it really means is that it's putting you back to perfect like when you picked your car up fresh from ceramic coating.

Dust wont hurt it.bird poop or acid rain or hard water mineral deposits could hurt it. Avoid parking under trees that may drop tree sap as well.

@@STATUSDETAIL man thanks a lot, but now whats giving me the anxiety is, that i got my car coated with MOHS, brought it home and what i saw on my bonnet was a big bird poop and some dead small insects 😂 i was new to this coating era and what i did is i took a damp cloth and gently rubbed it off, but it sat there for like 2 hours on my freshly coated car. now when i get my first wash done, should i also apply gyeon cure as iam worried the acid might have damaged it, i felt the yellowish tint didnt go away even after i gently rubbed the bird dropping off.

@@arsalanazhar3340 without seeing it. It does sound like you basically handled that correctly. Cure or wetcoat over it is a great idea. Worst case scenario your detailer can spot polish the bird poo problem area and blend ceramic back in. I'd do that for free on a freak accident type thing like that. Not everyone is as nice as me tho lol

@@STATUSDETAIL man thanks a lot for replying. just one last question , soe for maintenance, i should get a ph neutral shampoo , good microfibre cloths, and gyeon cure once every 1.5-2 months, and that would be all to protect my coating over long period of time ?

@@arsalanazhar3340 basically that's correct. But of course many situations could change your wash process. Like hitting fresh tar or having horrible hard water from a concrete parking deck dripping water. But yes. Good soap. Dry properly. And apply a ceramic based sealant

Lift. Descale should be used more like a clay bar. Meaning use it when it's necessary not just for fun all the time

@@STATUSDETAIL Thank you so much, you're response time to my question is so fast, appreciated !

@@Gamblor24 my pleasure 🙂

If you didn't like Gyeon I'd try carpro. I just believe better products are available than bead maker

I do not like C2V3 I'm much prefer cure and reload 2.0

If the paint feels as it did when it had fresh ceramic then you will wash. Gyeon Prep. Apply. If it feels really gritty like sand paper then likely needs clay. If you see it in build up use some iron decon. If you have some light swirls a fast light polish will act into od like mild clay and also remove light swirls. Especially after polish id apply heavy coat of exo. Using a string soap like Gyeon foam or carpro lift at strong dilution is a good idea. Products like Gyeon restart can be helpful too. I hope this helps!

@@STATUSDETAIL thanks so much!! Love your videos. Watching your ZL1 Camaro week long detail now. Thanks again.

@@PedroFernandez-sd3pr enjoy 🤝

That's a great question. Especially because some detailers like to dilute cure! Some people swear by diluting it because it makes it slightly less prone to streaking. If you want maximum durability and water beading you want to use it straight. But diluting it definitely works and gives you better value.

@@STATUSDETAIL I wonder if you could add a touch to Bathe to create a Bathe+

@@ChannelBri I don't recommend that. But if you did try I'd mix it bathe and wetcoat

@@STATUSDETAIL yes, probably best to just use wetcoat after, super easy.

@@ChannelBridude checkout bathe+ - it has wet coat properties in it

If you do the steps correctly and work small areas I think the average diy perstxan install ceramic. Just dont try to install two doors at same time. Do one door or even half a door

@STATUSDETAIL currently i just use the turtle wax ceramic spray coating, the result is good but can be better ..

@@DerickHo yes ceramic will blow your mind if that's what your use to

@@STATUSDETAIL but do you think hand polish is ok for ceramic coating?

@@DerickHo I'm not sure if your using the word polish correctly. You should avoid polishing a car eith ceramic. That's abrasive and will remove you coating. You can use paste wax like gyeon q2 wax or spray ceramic sealant like cure or reload. You can also add something like gtechniq exo v5. Those all add gloss and hydrophobics back.

No. I don't like those products from p and s. Only Brake buster

They are virtually the same product basically interchangeable that's why I sell both just depends what mood you are in lol Also sometimes one or the other goes out of stock especially during COVID we have lots of shortages so it was nice to have both because one was usually in stock

I have carpro reload and hydro lite I’ll stick to this combo

I'm not a fan of that product

Yes often Ma y customers convert to status and do maintenance with me. So I have put exo over other ceramic a lot. It works really well!!!

Have you installed exo over gyeon mohs evo or any system x coatings?

@@reedfrank2232 no but I'm positive it will work over Evo. I have done enough ceramic and just know that's going to work especially because skin and exo are pretty similar.

All the products in my video will work on a y car with it without ceramic but will benefit cars with ceramic the most. The coating you have is not my favorite. But you can certainly follow this guide to make your car look great long term

@@STATUSDETAIL yeah I didn’t do any research on the coating but it was very convenient to have some coating applied before I drove it off the lot. The dealer also talked about the coating guarantee which sounds good maybe too good but he showed me the coating insurance and what it covered and it looked good. I plan to really take care of this car so I’ve been doing research on how to wash and keep the ceramic coat looking good and remain intact. Which is how I found your video. I’ve watched other videos and they rave about P&S beadmaker and how it’s great for ceramic coated cars and I almost ordered some until I came across your video. Thanks for the quick response and information

@@chrisklimek5912 my pleasure. Definitely not a bead maker guy. So many better products available.

If you use a wash bay that you operate the pressure washer and use our own towels and wash pad that's a great option. Fully touchlesd car wash can be ok..but not great. You can always have a bucket with your basics. Drying towel. Soap. Wash pad. Wetcoat. Go to a 20-50 dollar hand wash place. Give them your stuff and say do the wash. That avoids the towels they used on 40000 cars before yours. Now your just paying for labor basically.

You can certainly dilute cure. Cure can sometimes streak or leave a bit of a weird film. I believe this is due to the concentrated formula. Dilution is actually a way to help with this but I personally do not dilute it I believe ceramic detailer has some secret ingredients that are different than cure. But in theory diluting cure would make a product that resembles ceramic detailer. Ceramic Detailer clearly has more water in it and that makes the raw materials cheaper and is why ceramic detailer is significantly less expensive.

@@STATUSDETAIL Thanks for the fast reply. Greatings, Marko

@@jdmscena anytime Marko👍

@@STATUSDETAIL i have only one question, what do you prefer carpro hydro2 or wet coat, which is more reppelent and slick?

@@jdmscena I believe both are nearly identical and indistinguishable. Hydro is cheaper if you look at cost per ml. Wetcoat is cheaper if you buy just 500ml. Both are totally amazing. I used hydro on my s6 yesterday actually!

Just better products available in my opinion. I prefer ceramic based products to be applied to my already ceramic coated car

Good question and I'll try and make this simple.... But long answer lol. I use EXO kind of like a traditional wax. I use it as a sacrificial layer to my base coat. Something I like to apply annually or even two times a year sometimes on a special personal car. I'm using it like a wax. It's giving extra gloss really topping off hydrophobics and keeping that base coat in tip top shape. In a car that's being used in decent amount like a daily driver as you come up on that one year time frame and your EXO coat is starting to slowly degrade overtime is exactly when you apply again to top it off. Then this will be keeping that base coat in tip top shape and unaffected by the elements. This is one of the reasons I love dual layer coating so much is because it gives you flexibility. Basically I'm always servicing my top coat and keeping my base coat perfect. If you have a 9/11 for example that only sees 500 mi a year on sunny days that coating will do 7 plus years easy. Even with moderately bad maintenance. The car that you daily drive 10,000 mi a year that has perfect maintenance will also still do 7 years. A car that does 5,000 mi a year with terrible maintenance might only see 3 years. So of course maintenance is a huge factor. When I say maintenance I simply mean doing proper washing and topping off with things like reload or cure or wet coat. Exo annually is more of a specialty maintenance. As normal maintenance is really just doing a proper wash. I hope this helped.

Many thanks. I very much appreciate your replying to me so promptly. I am a beginner who is planning to do a ceramic coat for the first time on my new Lexus NX. I have been carefully trying to learn what I need to first coat and then maintain that coat. Now that I have managed to understand the initial base coat, I am starting to try and uunderstand top coating or adding a "sacrificial" layer to the base coat, or "dual layering" as you call it. I live in Canada so the winter and salt is an issue for me (similar to Chicago?). I only do about 10,000 miles a year in daily driving (retired) and the car sits in a garage at night. After watching your video above, I am sure that I can carry out all of the "during the year" maintenance of washing, reload, cure and/or wet coat in a disciplined fashion - and these all seem to be great products of either Gyeon or CarPro. Problem is that I plan to keep my Lexus NX 450h+ (plug in) for up to 10 years, which means 7 years will not be long enough for me. So is there one or more "dual layer coatings" that you could suggest that will "hopefully" do up me to 10 years if there is an annual maintenance with say EXO. Since there is only my one car, I realize that I will have to discard the rest of the EXO bottle after application (and it is a long way from Toronto to Chicago to avail myself of your services).

If you're driving that many miles and that harsh weather I would recommend doing the 30 mil bottle annually. I actually like putting exo v5 on my glass as well and you can even put it on wheels. Put it on really heavy for your paint mainly because you just don't want to throw the bottle away with liquid still in it. So try and get it all on your car You could even do two layers on paint just to make sure you throw the bottle away empty. If you own the car for 10 years then around the five or six year mark you might want to do a very light polish and then reduce CSL and then put exo on top. Unless of course you feel like everything's working perfectly then it's continue with your normal maintenance. It's -40 wind chill here today so I definitely understand your environment. The salt can be hard on ceramic. Wet salt is the most corrosive. So if you have salt build up on the car but it's dry that's not as big of a deal. If you're driving every single day and it gets dry then wet then dry then wet repeatedly that's when it starts to eat into your coating more aggressively. For the most part of your daily driving there's not much you can do about this you have to drive your car and it's going to get salt on it. Just do your best not to leave it on for several weeks at a time or a month at a time. Using something like wet coat that's fast and easy is pretty essential in the winter time whenever you do a wash.

Many thanks (: @@STATUSDETAIL

I note that you are also a fan of the new Gyeon Wax. Would it be an alternative to apply the Gyeon Wax twice a year (Fall and Spring) instead of applying as much of the bottle of EXO v5 as I can each Spring such as even two coats? Likely the shelf life of the Gyeon Wax is considerably longer than the EXO v5. Also for clarity, I assume that I would need to wash and fully decontaminate (but not panel prep?) the car prior to the application of the EXO v5 or Gyeon WAx each year in order that they bond properly with the CSL?@@STATUSDETAIL

It's definitely fun to work on a cool car like this 👍

Hello. Washing it is the first step. If that does not work you can try a water spot remover. Carpro spotless 2.0 is great. Carpro descale can help too. That's a soap designed to remove mineral deposits from paint. Worst case you may need some paint correction and top off the ceramic. .

@@STATUSDETAIL thank you very much! I will try the washing. My detailer had warned me against washing it before the 2 weeks mark, but seems like I won’t have any choice. Today’s been 8 days since it was coated. I will also get the products you recommend. Thank you very much!! You’re the best!

@@AlOL81 I actually say after 6 or 7 days you can wash it. Other detailers might use different products and recommend different things but I would say after a week you're clear

Gyeon wax has fluorine in it. It's designed to work as a topper or stand alone ceramic based sealant. Gyeon booster was a topper that's since been discontinued due to fluorine being expensive raw material. Point is fluorine bonds to ceramic base coats

You use wetcoat as described. I would personally then blow dry. Then grab a drying towel. Spray cure into it or mist onto panel. Then dry the last few little drops. A full proper cure application is different than the above method. Hope that made sense

@STATUSDETAIL it did make sense, Wet Coat on the cleaned wet car, rinse, dry, spray Cure onto the panels and dry/buff. You're a gentleman and a scholar, thank you.

@@benbirch2393 my pleasure 🙂

It's pretty common knowledge that you need to do some maintenance on your Savannah coating to make sure it does what it's supposed to do. You can't get one cleaning at the dentist and then never go back for 30 years. Then you can't build a house and never do maintenance on it. This is pretty universal across most things in life. Feel free to buy nothing from me. Feel free to also buy everything I recommend for my other source so I get no money from it. I'm only getting you proper advice to help you.

Sure but I'd use wetcoat or hydro instead

Ok...thanks