The Guz
Mike
For my personal car you and Budget already inspired me to experiment beyond CarPro! I was actually planning on using 22PL HPC but might have to re-think it. For my other family vehicles, CarPo coatings have always been a first choice due to how well they hold up and their affordable price in a 30mL bottle.
I guess my biggest complaint with the flash time of UK 3.0 and now SIC is the current length of the flash. If the flash time is only 1~2 minutes I can very methodically work one panel at a time before moving on, I never have to backtrack to buff it out. With a 5~8-ish minute flash time it becomes hard to find a break point to go back to buff off previously applied areas. I could be in the middle of applying on a door and then have to jump back to a previous applied area to buff it out before it hardens too much...and then jump back to the area I was applying. For me this leads to application errors. If a flash time is even longer, the ideal length would be enough to do any entire side of the car before having to go back and buff off. That or the product is still easy to buff out after it`s flashed for a period of time. High humidity in my area also wreaks havoc on flash times and makes them even more variable the longer they get.
I really like CarPro products, and plan to still use UK in some circumstances. I`ll just have to adjust my work flow or really slow down.
I could not remember the flash times so here’s a photo of the labels for Insanity and HPC. Keep in mind that 22ple recommends 12 hours between additional coats. They confirmed it as well when I messaged them.
User friendly coatings that’s for sure. Just a long window between an additional layer. VM1 is a winner in my book from them.
Insanity

HPC
