[0:00] ever since I started testing detailing
[0:01] products I've heard a lot of myths
[0:03] rumors and even lies about how they work
[0:06] I want to use this video as an
[0:08] opportunity to give you my take about
[0:10] the truth I fully expect this video to
[0:12] be at least a little bit controversial
[0:14] but if something's working for you if
[0:16] it's a product or a tool and you love it
[0:18] that's what really matters let's talk
[0:20] about my favorite 10
[0:22] myths most codings themselves are not
[0:25] particularly hard to install you've seen
[0:28] me install codings I'm by no means a
[0:30] rocket scientist the actual coding
[0:32] application itself requires good
[0:34] lighting and ideally an indoor
[0:36] environment when compared to a typical
[0:38] wax you must make sure to wipe
[0:40] everything up to avoid high spots but
[0:42] other than that it's really pretty
[0:43] simple the greatest Challenge and
[0:45] biggest cost if paying someone to do it
[0:48] is the prep work that's the washing the
[0:51] decontamination and most importantly the
[0:54] pink correction some people believe new
[0:56] cars don't need to be prepped but they
[0:57] absolutely do although it may take a a
[1:00] lot less
[1:01] time another common misconception and
[1:04] one of my favorites is that ceramic
[1:06] Coatings are diamond hard sometimes they
[1:09] also compare them with glass and the
[1:11] insinuation is just how strong and
[1:13] protective they're going to be most of
[1:15] us in school learned about something
[1:16] called the Mo's scale of hardness and
[1:18] then we see Coatings and they're sold as
[1:20] 8h 9h 10h and so forth the H hardness
[1:23] scale is actually not the mo hardness
[1:25] scale although people often think it is
[1:27] it's actually the pencil hardness scale
[1:29] a coding that rates 9h can avoid being
[1:32] marred by a 9h hardness pencil how does
[1:34] that compare to the most scale well it's
[1:36] like the hardness of your fingernail you
[1:38] can even hear our friend Chris gahar of
[1:40] Adams polishes talk about it when I
[1:42] interviewed him the two scales get
[1:45] confused a lot between pencil hardness
[1:47] and mo hardness I think some of that
[1:49] purposely is done with um marketing and
[1:52] things like that and maybe some of it's
[1:53] just plain ignorance but essentially
[1:55] what it's doing is trying to see if the
[1:57] coding is harder than the pencil so you
[1:59] do a measurement at 9h and if it doesn't
[2:02] scratch Mar or gouge the surface after
[2:06] five repetitions if it doesn't do that
[2:08] on three of them then you're done and
[2:10] it's greater than 9 H but all those
[2:12] measurements that you're doing on all
[2:13] those H's are all within about a one and
[2:16] a half to two on the most hardness scale
[2:18] so essentially if you BL up the hardness
[2:20] scale you're kind of goofing around in
[2:22] this small
[2:24] region let's move on to another
[2:26] longlasting piece of fiction that I hear
[2:29] over over it's the idea that Coatings
[2:31] prevent rock chips scratches and swirls
[2:35] so how true is that we know they're not
[2:36] very hard as a coating but there is a
[2:39] sacrificial layer one reality about
[2:41] Coatings is just how thin they are the
[2:43] finer human hair on your body is about
[2:45] 50 microns in thickness Coatings are
[2:48] usually about one maybe two microns
[2:50] thick as far as blocking Rock chips
[2:52] forget about it no coating is blocking
[2:54] Rock chips there may be some limited
[2:56] truth to scratch and swirl protection
[2:58] though these Coatings are a protective
[3:00] layer an incredibly thin one but it is
[3:02] on top of your clear coat and it might
[3:04] provide a tiny bit of protection however
[3:06] because the layer is so soft and thin
[3:08] any abrasive material can still Scuff
[3:10] the paint quite easily I would say this
[3:12] is a little bit of a halft truth it
[3:14] helps a bit when you're like washing and
[3:16] drying doesn't really help in real world
[3:19] situations that may cause actual
[3:21] scratches one thing that you may
[3:23] consider is ppf we have tested ppf and
[3:26] we were able to see some amazing
[3:27] self-healing Coatings can't do anything
[3:30] like
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[3:32] that probably one of the silliest ones
[3:34] at least to me is the idea that you
[3:37] don't have to wash your car anymore I
[3:39] really don't even know where that came
[3:40] from but it sticks around a lot dirt and
[3:43] grime sticks less to vehicles that are
[3:44] treated with Coatings and actually other
[3:46] lust up products as well coated cars
[3:49] will still get dirty just not as rapidly
[3:51] as cars with bare untreated
[3:54] paint now the one that annoys me quite a
[3:57] bit is that you have to constantly use
[3:59] boot booster products or some sort of
[4:01] special wash to replenish your coating
[4:04] but the reality is you're not adding
[4:06] coating back you're putting a sealant on
[4:09] top of your coated car cool fair enough
[4:11] if you like that maybe you like the look
[4:13] you want to use a Topper to give a
[4:14] certain look and feel to your car that
[4:16] the coating itself doesn't do more power
[4:18] to you sometimes on my coated car if
[4:22] there's an area that the coating didn't
[4:24] stick too well Chrome for example is one
[4:26] of those trouble areas sure you can put
[4:28] a Topper on there you can put a booster
[4:31] that is all fantastic but the idea that
[4:33] you have to keep recharging your cating
[4:35] flies in the face of the whole idea of
[4:37] Coatings which is that they're supposed
[4:38] to be these semi-permanent long lasting
[4:40] products and what really bothers me is
[4:43] when companies even base warranties
[4:45] around you using a booster that tends to
[4:47] be installers more than the
[4:50] manufacturers but it is very frustrating
[4:52] for me because a customer will never
[4:53] know your coding has failed if that
[4:55] customer is constantly reapplying a
[4:58] sealant to their car every three car
[5:00] washes they'll never know of course
[5:02] you'll never have any warranty claims I
[5:03] do kind of think some people are going
[5:05] to comment on this and say well I love
[5:06] the booster products or manufacturer
[5:08] says you got to do it I think I wound
[5:10] myself up a little but let's take a
[5:12] moment to talk about something there are
[5:14] Amazon affiliate links Down Below in the
[5:16] description they do help support the
[5:17] channel the links are going to be to
[5:19] some of my favorite codings but if you
[5:21] buy anything at all on Amazon I do get
[5:23] credit for that and it does help run the
[5:27] channel everybody's talking about their
[5:29] 5 10 15 20 infinityy year product I
[5:34] think this may be more of an irrelevance
[5:35] than an actual myth and the reality is
[5:38] yes I've seen a cating go a thousand
[5:40] washes in our scrub testing but you're
[5:42] never going to care about 10 years and
[5:44] let me explain why number one no one
[5:46] keeps their car that long number two how
[5:49] many of you just leave your car in the
[5:50] garage never drive it anywhere the
[5:52] reality is most of us drive our cars so
[5:54] what does that mean well going to get
[5:56] scratched you're going to need pain
[5:58] correction again
[6:00] I don't believe codings really block UV
[6:03] in the way that people are made to
[6:06] understand blocking UV most people
[6:08] picture blocking UV the sunlight comes
[6:09] in coding blocks it goes like you know
[6:11] get out of here UV pushes it away that's
[6:14] what most people are thinking these
[6:15] products do I've never been able to show
[6:18] that through a variety of weathering and
[6:20] transmission tests one thing that these
[6:21] codings can do is they can provide a
[6:24] layer between your clear coat for when
[6:26] you have let's say chemicals that
[6:28] shouldn't be on your car on your car
[6:30] maybe worst case scenario bleach or some
[6:33] other chemical that with sunlight and UV
[6:37] is just going to supercharge and
[6:39] potentially damage your paint if you're
[6:40] ever trying to bleach something and
[6:42] you're doing it just indoors in like a
[6:44] cup of bleach and it's taken forever
[6:45] yeah just go put it outside for half an
[6:47] hour so in that sense there is some
[6:48] element of Truth in my opinion to the UV
[6:51] protective qualities of products and a
[6:53] lot of people will ask well we see these
[6:55] beautiful cars that are well-maintained
[6:56] and these guys they wax them they wash
[6:58] them they seal them they coat them and
[6:59] the cars look beautiful well yeah guys
[7:01] let maintain their cars have beautiful
[7:03] cars
[7:05] yeah kind of a minor myth but I think
[7:07] worth talking about is the belief that
[7:09] Coatings are the prettiest products in
[7:11] the world people gush over beautifully
[7:13] coated cars photographed in beautiful
[7:15] Studios with beautiful lighting but
[7:17] through my testing I've definitely seen
[7:18] that Coatings can be quite beautiful
[7:20] however for a show car finish it's not
[7:22] always the Top Choice I have seen other
[7:24] products that yield really really
[7:26] beautiful results another thing to
[7:28] consider is that pink correction and
[7:30] prep is a huge huge part of how your car
[7:34] is going to look the paint correction is
[7:35] what's going to make it beautiful like
[7:37] in those
[7:38] photos there's this belief Often
[7:41] perpetuated by usually dealer installers
[7:45] not So Much by independent installers
[7:48] that this is a great investment that you
[7:50] know when you go to sell your car you'll
[7:51] tell the next buyer it's got a 10-year
[7:53] coating on it it's going to really
[7:55] maintain your investment prevent those
[7:56] Rock chips and scratches and swirls we
[7:59] talked aled about earlier and it's a
[8:00] great way to convince ourselves well I
[8:02] need this that's going to keep my car
[8:03] nice and then I'll get a good resale on
[8:06] my car you care it's your baby your car
[8:08] you don't want the scratches on it right
[8:10] but when you go to sell it the next
[8:12] buyer isn't even going to see all those
[8:14] scratches unless they're as detail
[8:16] oriented as you are a dealer because
[8:18] guess what most guys are trading in
[8:20] their cars dealer really doesn't care
[8:22] unless it's bad ppf may be a better
[8:24] investment however I really urge if
[8:26] you're going to spend a th000 bucks or
[8:28] several thousand dollars make sure it's
[8:30] something that is for your enjoyment
[8:32] unless your car is just quite
[8:36] special the final myth and personally
[8:38] one of my absolute favorites is the idea
[8:42] that maybe nothing really matters
[8:43] anymore except for Coatings they are the
[8:46] latest and greatest they provide the
[8:48] most durability they are pretty they
[8:50] have lots of great qualities Why install
[8:53] anything except the coding companies are
[8:55] in fact working on all kinds of other
[8:57] interesting products we see highly
[8:59] performing PTF Products that come in Old
[9:01] School paste form I've tested spray
[9:03] sealants that are super easy to use and
[9:05] Incredibly durable there are what feels
[9:08] like an infinite number of options and
[9:10] codings are just one I personally use a
[9:13] mix of everything it depends on the task
[9:16] there's the right tool for the right job
[9:18] I really hope this video wasn't just
[9:20] like Angry me ranting and it was
[9:22] actually interesting for you what are
[9:24] some of your favorite myths
[9:25] misconceptions and maybe even lies in
[9:27] the detailing world I'd love it if you
[9:29] let me know Down Below in the comments
[9:31] definitely want to hear what you
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