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What spray do you use on your ceramic coating?
What product/ spray do you use to clean and maintain your ceramic coating?
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02-15-2025, 11:16 AM | #2 |
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I've been happy with the Adam's "Graphene Detail Spray". But I have a newish coating on the Z4 (DIY) so it is probably hard to tell which one is doing the job. It goes on and off easily and is a low enough % that you don't need to be too worried about leaving something behind that you didn't polish / buff / whatever you call it. I do still spray it on the towel down wind just in case.
I also started putting it on my X3 that has a bunch of Zaino on it, and can tell it beads water / snow is easier to remove longer than the Zaino itself ever did. I know you're not supposed to put one type over the other but for that car I don't care a ton and it has actually been working. I tried it as a test and am glad I did. Typically I just use the normal car wash soaps but have a "strip wash" that you supposedly use once a year, but I haven't had the Z4 a full year yet so I'll give that a go this spring. |
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02-15-2025, 12:15 PM | #3 |
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Clean - if the entire care is dirty - wash it. If only a section needs to be clean, I use waterless wash on a microfiber towel to wipe-off the dirt or bird poop. Maintain - all brands have some sort of spray-and-wipe ceramic "booster" product, or "detail" spray. I used to stick within the brand family of the base ceramic coating product I had used on that car. So, since I started with Adam's on two cars, I also got Graphene CS3 (which is what Adam's rep recommended for maintenance). For my McKeys and Gyeon coated cars - I either use the above, or another similar McKeys branded spray product I had bought (one or the other brand goes on sale ever so often). Frankly, they all seam to work the same, and are highly interchangeable. I don't regularly "boost" any of the coatings, nor does the coating look or bead water any different in areas where spray was recently applied. To a large extent, "boosters" are a way to add recurring revenue after selling you the ceramic coating. IMHO, a
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You can make your own Elixir. Carpro and most detailers are mostly water in their bottled products. So making your own cost considerably less.
Carpro Merlins Mixture there are a lot of results, people commenting on multiple combinations. 2oz Reload / 2oz Ech20 / 28oz Distilled Water. |
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02-16-2025, 04:41 PM | #7 |
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Shouldn't use any spray on top of ceramic coating except to extend its life near the end, before you polish and coat again.
Use an iron x product periodically. Use good soap with no b.s. in it.
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02-16-2025, 11:28 PM | #8 |
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Nope. Just towels. But they're the best.
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