I recently made a 3-month update video on the Adam’s Graphene Ceramic Coating that’s applied to my Supra. If you haven’t, I would suggest that you watch that video to fully understand its current status. But in short, it’s apparent that the coating has diminished a bit. Well when I purchased the coating, I purchased it in a kit that came with a bottle of Adam’s Ceramic Boost.
This product is a sio2 silica-infused sealant. Ceramic Boost can be used as a stand-alone paint protection coating or used as a topper or a maintenance product for another coating. In my particular situation, I will be using it as a topper in hopes of bringing some life back into my Graphene Ceramic Coating.
To get started, I’m going to wash the car. This is an obvious step as we do not want to apply any coating on top of a dirty car as this will just hinder the coating’’s ability to properly adhere to the surface.
As far as prep work, this is all that I will personally be doing. If you are using Ceramic Boost as a stand-alone coating and want maximum performance, I’d advised that you at least decontaminate the surface prior to application and do paint correction if necessary. I’m skipping these steps because I already have a previously applied coating. Decontaminating and paint correction will only further reduce the performance of my base coating. The added performance of the topper is not worth a reduction in the base coating that I want to last for as long as possible. The topper will have to be reapplied again in a few months anyway, so there’s no point in going all out on prep work. This is just how I personally view it, you can do whatever you’d like with your car.
Once everything is clean and dry, we can move on to the application process, which is pretty straight forward. The directions essentially say to spray Ceramic Boost on then buff it off. I personally sprayed it on, wiped it into the surface, then went back and buffed off the excess.
Now, this is where things are a bit muddy. The directions say to spray a generous amount of product onto the surfaces. I felt that this is what I did. However, when it came time to buff the product off, I found that it was very streaky. This typically happens when too much product is used. So from experience, I would say to not use too much product, but who knows if that will negatively affect performance since the directions say to do the opposite.
What’s interesting is that this is Ceramic Boost 2.0, the latest formulation of Ceramic Boost. Many people complained that the original formula was too streaky so Adam’s introduced Ceramic Boost 2.0 to fix that issue. However, if you go to the official Adam’s website and read the reviews for this product, you’ll see that many people still complain about the streaking issue. I, of course, can attest to this so it’s something to be aware of. Don’t get me wrong, you can remove the streaks. It may just take multiple attempts and multiple passes.
The directions don’t say anything about a cure time but I’m going to played it safe let the coating sit for 48 hours prior to any hydrophobic testing.
During application, I was personally able to tell that the Ceramic Boost coated surfaces were slicker. My hand glided over it and it for sure was slicker than just having the Graphene Ceramic Coating on there. After seeing how water reacts to the coating, I was able to confirm the added slickness as water moved off the surfaces a lot faster than before. But, that doesn’t really matter to me. What matters is being able to blow the remaining water off of the car so I can reduce the chance of getting water spots. So, I brought out my BigBoi BlowR Pro car dryer to see how the sitting water drops react to the dryer.
From my test, I can personally tell that Ceramic Boost did help with the slickness of the surface. Water blew off the surface easier after applying Ceramic Boost. That being said, I personally don’t think that it did much. There’s still plenty of drag that caused the larger water droplets to break up into a bunch of tiny droplets. Before Ceramic Boost, these remaining tiny droplets would have so much drag that they would barely move. After Ceramic Boost, although the smaller droplets are still present, I am able to blow them off the panels if I get the nozzle right on top of them. So, that is no doubt a positive but I personally would not want to try and blow off all of these tiny droplets. It would just waste too much time. Because of this, I personally feel that although Ceramic Boost helped to make the current state of my Graphene Ceramic Coating better, it is not something that I’m impressed with. It definitely didn’t make the Graphene Ceramic Coating look like new, nowhere near it. Knowing this, I personally will not be buying any more Ceramic Boost to top my Graphene Ceramic Coating. I may not even bother using the remainder that I have from the kit that I originally bought. I think for the amount of work required to remove all the streaks, the performance is just not worth it.
And that’s going to be it. This will actually be my last update for Adam’s Graphene Ceramic Coating. At this point, I absolutely know that Graphene Ceramic Coating has diminished. A true test of durability would’ve been to let it sit and continue to test it as is. But now that I applied Ceramic Boost, I essentially applied another coating on top of Graphene Ceramic Coating. There will be no way for me to test Graphene Ceramic Coating’s performance now that there is a layer of Ceramic Boost protecting it. So, rather than making further updates that will likely provide misleading information, I’m just going to call it here for Adam’s Graphene Ceramic Coating.
I personally feel that it provides some amazing hydrophobic properties, but unfortunately, that will only last a few months on something like a daily driver. This is a coating that you will have to maintain and top off on the regular. Perhaps even monthly. If you are ok with that, then I can give Adam’s Graphene Ceramic Coating a recommendation.
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