I received my first order of SiC in the mail Saturday. I have not had a chance to apply it yet but here are my initial thoughts.

I opened the bottle and it had a very similar smell to TiO2. I then took an applicator cloth like I do for all of my coatings and soaked in the SiO2. After a full day of cure, I see no discernible difference in hardness between the cloth soaked with TiO2 and the SiC. Both seem to be almost identical. I plan to apply it to a panel at some point to test the slickness but TiO2 is already very slick once cured.

90% of my products are CarPro and I am an avid supporter, they work! But, I am having a hard time initially seeing what has changed in this SiC compound making it any better or worse.

My guess is that this will, at some point replace TiO2 as they seem to be VERY similar but neither come close to matching the hardness of the UK3.0 soaked applicator test. It is VERY obvious which one wins that contest.