Colleton
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Well, I spent the last two afternoons putting a coat of CarPro's CQ.UK 3.0 on the Mustang. Put the base coat of C.Quartz on yesterday and the top coat of Reload on today. I think it turned out pretty well, but we'll see after it fully cures. It certainly looks shiny and feels slippery. TBH, it looks and feels fantastic.
I had Ceramic Pro installed on my GT350 and was very pleased with that product. I had intended to use it again, but unfortunately you can't just buy it. You can only get it through an installer and I wanted to do this myself, so I went with C.Quartz this time.
CarPro makes a bunch of different products, and it's hard at first to understand what to buy. C.Quartz is the ceramic coating, but what is Reload, Gliss, Forte, or Dlux? Reload and Gliss are the two top coat sealants that CarPro makes to protect the base C.Quartz layer. Reload is a spray on coating that lasts up to 6 months, and Gliss is a wipe on coating that installs the same way the C.Quartz layer is installed and lasts up to 12 months. Forte is a ceramic coating for glass, and Dlux is CarPro's ceramic coating for plastic trim and high temp areas (wheels).
Reload is what came with the C.Quartz package that I bought, so that is what I used. You can buy Reload by the liter bottle, and I'm thinking that it is the product that CarPro wants you to buy and use as the sacrificial layer to maintain the base ceramic coating. To be honest, you could probably just buy Reload by itself and get a big chunk of the protection of a ceramic coating with a lot less effort. You would need to reapply regularly though. Very much like the hybrid-ceramic spray-on stuff you can get from Meguiar's and other companies. Just saying...
I'm going to buy some more Reload to maintain the coating, and some Forte and Dlux to apply to the glass, plastic trim and wheels.
In the end, this was not that hard to do. It just takes time and care to prep the car and get the coating applied correctly. Do some research, watch some videos and save yourself ~ $1,200-$1,300, which is what local detailers wanted to do this job.
I had Ceramic Pro installed on my GT350 and was very pleased with that product. I had intended to use it again, but unfortunately you can't just buy it. You can only get it through an installer and I wanted to do this myself, so I went with C.Quartz this time.
CarPro makes a bunch of different products, and it's hard at first to understand what to buy. C.Quartz is the ceramic coating, but what is Reload, Gliss, Forte, or Dlux? Reload and Gliss are the two top coat sealants that CarPro makes to protect the base C.Quartz layer. Reload is a spray on coating that lasts up to 6 months, and Gliss is a wipe on coating that installs the same way the C.Quartz layer is installed and lasts up to 12 months. Forte is a ceramic coating for glass, and Dlux is CarPro's ceramic coating for plastic trim and high temp areas (wheels).
Reload is what came with the C.Quartz package that I bought, so that is what I used. You can buy Reload by the liter bottle, and I'm thinking that it is the product that CarPro wants you to buy and use as the sacrificial layer to maintain the base ceramic coating. To be honest, you could probably just buy Reload by itself and get a big chunk of the protection of a ceramic coating with a lot less effort. You would need to reapply regularly though. Very much like the hybrid-ceramic spray-on stuff you can get from Meguiar's and other companies. Just saying...
I'm going to buy some more Reload to maintain the coating, and some Forte and Dlux to apply to the glass, plastic trim and wheels.
In the end, this was not that hard to do. It just takes time and care to prep the car and get the coating applied correctly. Do some research, watch some videos and save yourself ~ $1,200-$1,300, which is what local detailers wanted to do this job.
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