The Beadophiles

Scortho

1 coat of Chemical guys xxx hardcore wax greeted me with this this afternoon.
Much better beading this morning as it had just stopped raining, but I was in a rush to work.

Mc Love

Quick question and not looking to derail the thread, but do you guys ever go and dry the car after its been raining?

toastedpickles

Mc Love wrote: »

Quick question and not looking to derail the thread, but do you guys ever go and dry the car after its been raining?

No point it'l just p1ss rain again :pac:

MetzgerMeister

Mc Love wrote: »

Quick question and not looking to derail the thread, but do you guys ever go and dry the car after its been raining?

Nope, there's no point once the car has just been washed and waxed etc. as like TP said, it'll be sure to rain soon again afterwards and the roads will be wet for the time being. Just drive it as normal and don't worry about it getting dirty, you'll wash it again in a week's time or whatever.

Sidewayslarry

Mc Love wrote: »

Quick question and not looking to derail the thread, but do you guys ever go and dry the car after its been raining?

I've heard a few people say that they do this. The one thing to be really careful of here is that dust, dirt and airborne contaminants will be sitting on your car after a shower of rain. Drying a car after washing is a fairly safe operation with a good drying towel, mainly because you will have just given it a rinse off before drying. However, any little breeze, or gust of wind will bring with it dust and dirt which will sit on your cars paintwork. If it then starts raining and you dry it off, you will be dragging this dirt around the paintwork, undoing all your good work of polishing and waxing.

MetzgerMeister

Windscreen this morning....

west cork lad

Happy enough to get some work done yesterday. For a complete and utter novice I was happy enough with beading this morning. Enough so to risk posting pics.

sebastianlieken

Did a fixer-upper job on my bonnet. Finished with polishing, sealing, and waxing.

Ded_Zebra

I linked to this site recently but thought that this article would be particularly relevant and interesting here

http://wetshine.net/2010/06/26/water-beading-–-what’s-the-big-deal/

Gavman84

Not my work but still!! :pac:

Zoney

Just wondering, with the surface in general on the car beading well, what would cause really large globules of water in the centre of the roof (actually slightly offset from centre as the car is parked on a slight sideways slope).

I'm more curious than anything, I don't aim to have perfect beading or anything!

MAJJ

Not an expert so two guesses/observations from my own polishing/waxing. Is the car roof high? Maybe hard to reach and not getting same application as other areas? Or I noticed on mine, the wiper spray and associated chemicals were overspraying onto roof.

MetzgerMeister

The globules are because of a lot of beads bonding together and since it's the middle of the roof, it's the flattest area so the beads just bond and stay there forming globules.

Zoney

Thanks! Thought it might be to do with the flatness of the roof alright. Was earlier thinking of it getting less application of EGP but second last time I had a step to do roof, and last time I was careful to ensure even application. Screenwash a good point (hate the way it does that, just sprays up off the windshield again when going along full speed) but this is after a good wash and dry.

Curran

The screen wash will strip away the way wax on the car.

HJL

Have these 2 pictures in the 'detailing i did today' thread from last weekend, but I think they deserve to go in here too

BillJ

Some beading after very light rain after my detailing session saturday, one layer of collinite 845, pics are not the best quality.

BillJ

nd

JAMES VTI S

Reminds me of chocolate buttons

Slattsy

They look like Minstrels to me :rolleyes:

JAMES VTI S

Lol

Veloce

Filmed in HD..

From about 16 secs on:

JAMES VTI S

AH HA HA lads we are in too deep, what would the neighbours think. cool idea BTW

dar83

Spike Witwicky

Polished at the weekend and then it rained. So i got a pic

Taylor365

Mine was covered in beads at the end of the meet but i was too cold in my shorts to sit around taking photos in the rain.

Onto the motorway. Dry in seconds.

Neilw

Orchard autocare perfection beading.

randy hickey

Pure unadulterated foggy dew this morning:

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dar83

Had the same this morning. It nearly looked like the car was covered in felt!

Supergurrier

Dar is a closet felter

dar83

Supergurrier wrote: »

Dar is a closet felter

You're just upset I never felt you up! :rolleyes:

Mc Love

Did someone say felt??
Windscreen was the same!

sebastianlieken

I was greeted by some nice fat round beads of water on the car this morning




Not enough rain at this stage for proper beading, but there's an oil rig and a harland and wolff crane in the background... so that's something

stimpson

Found this on my phone - meant to post last week

JAMES VTI S

Spike Witwicky

Some beads before the Sahara threw its ****ty sand all over it

stimpson

Got a coat of EGP on last night and planned to do more today. I might leave it for a while.

mik_da_man

After my detail and 2 coats of AG HD wax:

deaglan169

some early morning beeding, polish with autofinesse triple and sealed with dodo juice diamond white hard wax

[IMG][/img]IMG_20140422_074421714 by Rigger-EI-2GFB, on Flickr

[IMG][/img]IMG_20140422_074432594 by Rigger-EI-2GFB, on Flickr

mik_da_man

Few more from this morning

nd

large beads good or bad(on a flat levelish surface that was sitting overnight)?

Ded_Zebra

More wax required!!!!! Good beads have small contact area with the car and are very high.

Here's one of my beading shots

nd

Hmm that was with about 4 layers of extra gloss protection and 2 of colinite 845 on top of it(not all in the one go, they were applied over a period of a few weeks)!

Curran

Yeah, as Ded_Z has said, they arent quite perfect...not the worst but not bad!

Also, sometimes you can have areas of large beads, on flat surfaces as there is nowhere for the beads to go, so it has to pool.

Take this for example; the roof on my car has a slight curve (as most do), and the car is parked on a slight slope, front of it lower....you can see the beads will run off the car. On the flatter surface the beads are good, but not heavy enough for gravity to take effect. A drop or two more water on each bead and it would slide off down the car.

Curran

nd wrote: »

Hmm that was with about 4 layers of extra gloss protection and 2 of colinite 845 on top of it(not all in the one go, they were applied over a period of a few weeks)!

Tell us about the prep that was done on the car?

Ded_Zebra

When was the car last washed. A light layer of dust or pollen really effects the quality of beading.

It may also be a case of the two LSPs reacting badly together and the durability being compromised.


Was the car clayed before the was/sealant was applied?

nd

Well when doing the extra gloss protection I washed it using tbm, then clayed it, then washed it again using tbm. Dried it. Applied SRP first and removed. Then applied the layers of egp waiting about half an hour between.

A few weeks layer I said I'd try the colinite on top of it. So washed it again using tbh, dried and applied the layers of colinite.

I used the auoglym shampoo when washing.

nd

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

When was the car last washed. A light layer of dust or pollen really effects the quality of beading.

It may also be a case of the two LSPs reacting badly together and the durability being compromised.


Was the car clayed before the was/sealant was applied?

About a week ago.

Not that the "quality of beading" bothers me. Just curious

MetzgerMeister

nd wrote: »

Hmm that was with about 4 layers of extra gloss protection and 2 of colinite 845 on top of it(not all in the one go, they were applied over a period of a few weeks)!

Did you clay it properly before applying all that? It may be possible that 845 doesn't work well with EGP.

I applied 1 coat of 845 on mine 2 weeks ago, washed twice since then, only dried afterwards, nothing else applied over it and my beads are still the same as the ones DZ posted.