Please, I need help to remove a sealant!! (noob)

[RtN]

Re: Please, I need help to remove a sealant!! (noob)

Sounds like the next big thing lol.

[Fly Bye]

Re: Please, I need help to remove a sealant!! (noob)

you'd like your money back.

[rickylexus250]

Re: Please, I need help to remove a sealant!! (noob)

It shouldn't your job to remove the sealant, you want the result you want and tell the dealer or whoever applied the product to fix it. A glass coating is the final process for the paint and anyone applying it should know that you do not apply it over any paint that has not been paint corrected. I am hoping that the holograms are on the glass coating, so a light paint correction may fix it. (try a small area and see what happens, treat like they is no glass coating on with the DA, use M105 and M205, least aggressive first).

[rickylexus250]

Re: Please, I need help to remove a sealant!! (noob)

"The flexible and breathable glass coating is approximately 100 nanometres thick (500 times thinner than a human hair)" this statement cannot be correct. This is a pretty thick coating and would make your car bigger by 100 nanometres whatever that is.

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Please, I need help to remove a sealant!! (noob)

It shouldn't your job to remove the sealant, you want the result you want and tell the dealer or whoever applied the product to fix it. A glass coating is the final process for the paint and anyone applying it should know that you do not apply it over any paint that has not been paint corrected. I am hoping that the holograms are on the glass coating, so a light paint correction may fix it. (try a small area and see what happens, treat like they is no glass coating on with the DA, use M105 and M205, least aggressive first).

This thread is 4 years old so odds are the issue has been resolved by now.

"The flexible and breathable glass coating is approximately 100 nanometres thick (500 times thinner than a human hair)" this statement cannot be correct. This is a pretty thick coating and would make your car bigger by 100 nanometres whatever that is.

No, this sounds about right actually for a modern "glass coating". With many of them, if you tape off a section and apply right up to the tape, you can feel the difference in thickness (the "step up" at the edge of the coating). Let's put this presumed 100 nanometer thickness into context: factory clear coat is on the order of 1.5 to 2.0 mils thick. That's a max of 2/1000 of an inch, which is pretty thin. Most manufacturers recommend a max clear coat removal via polishing, wet sanding, etc of 0.5 mil before seriously compromising the integrity of the clear coat. Merely compounding the paint with a DA won't come anywhere near this level of material removal so it's a non issue here. That 100 nanometer thick coating? It's just 0.0039 mil (4/1000 of a mil) or 0.0000039 inch (4/1,000,000 of an inch).