Recently saw Sandro's comparison of this DIY ceramic coating kit alongside Gyeon and Sonax.
Granted this is not CarPro CQuartz UK 3.0 but it probably has less chance of leaving high spots.
Potential price match with SCA on "clearance" at $129.
More detailed application guide from Pan The Organizer.
I suppose YouTube reviews and long term evaluation reviews would be key here. At least they're more comprehensive and some reviews even test out multiple brands.
It's not like there's just one metric though. Water beading, surface shininess, deep shine, paint protection, weather resitance. Then you can compare how good they are right after you apply them vs 1 month later, or 3 months, or 6 months, in the desert, in the tropics, garaged. There's a whole range of products for a whole range of needs and trying to reduce it to one metric is a little too ozbargain comments section to work.
A number of the metrics you mentioned are likely correlated or metavariables of a major metric such as coat thickness or adhesion. Coat thickness can be measured, as can luminosity as indicator of reflectance. You can control for environmental conditions when testing. This isn't rocket science - these things can be measured and objectively quantified.
I don't think equal thickness coats of wax and plastic wrap would act too simillarly over time. Do you?
People live in different environments. You don't want to control environmental variables, you want to test them.
This is not as simple as simple people seem to think. As I said, a little too ozbargain comments section.
@Joker042: You can test for different environments, but you only change one variable at a time. That's how scientific experiments work. You don't try to vary all as the same time, then declare it's all to hard.
Leave the science to me, and I'll leave the trolling to you.
@Make it so: You're not going to have one number any more, are you? If products perform different in different environments, you're going to have one for each environment. And if you're measuing different metrics, you're going to have one for each metric. And if you're measuing at different timepoints you're going to have some description of how peformance drops off over time.
I appreciate that you're studying science, but maybe come back once you've finished high school because you don't even appear to understand the meanings of the words you're using.
Pretty much, these days every product got word ceramic and few other buzz words in them. They only separate by the price, so people think more you pay better the protection.
hmmmm…..
no delivery to Melbourne??
I love Meg's hybrid ceramic wax.
shame, basically out of stock in Melbourne stores at SCA
+1 Love his videos on Car Craft Auto Detailing
They need to come up with a universal metric to compare how long a coat of each product actually lasts and how much protection they offer. It is near impossible to compare between these types of products. Every review of every product says "it looks amazing, best product ever".