Carpro flyby forte bad result?

[kiddkai]

Hello pros,

I applied carpro flyby forte on my windshield two weeks ago.

I followed the process on the box and did a car soap wash after buff off the polish residue, then did a eraser wipe down.

But it doesn’t create a tight beading surface, it raining yesterday and I took a picture on the windshield,



I also tried to apply optimum gloss-coat on my driver side window, beading looks much better and it creates nicer beading.



While I was driving out this morning, the water from my driver side window fly away when the speed was up to 45kmh, the water from my windshield still sticking there at the same speed


I am wondering if I did something wrong when applying the coating?

 

[The Guz]

It sounds like you did everything right. I recently applied this and did pretty much what you did. I clayed the glass, polished it by hand with ceriglass as the glass is in good shape with no water spots. Essentially to remove the previous coating. Wiped off the polish, washed it off and noticed the glass had become hydrophilic which tells me ceriglass did it's job. Did an Eraser prep wipe and applied 2 coats on the front glass and 1 coat on the rest of the glass.

Did you apply it to the glass and not wipe it off? That is key as it just flashes off during application.

I have been satosfied with flybyforte's performance thus far. It drizzled here a few days ago and the water beaded really well and was blown off the glass at around 30 mph. I have been maintaining it with CarPro Ech20 at 1:20 (detail spray mix).

 

[kiddkai]

The glass did become hydrophilic after polish. I tested on Sydney highway yesterday, seems it only working when speed is > 60+ kmh.

Yeah, it just flashed out quickly to clear when I apply the coating, I basically use most of them on my windshield. The hydrophbicity still isn’t as impressive as the video I’ve watched. For glass cleaning, I am using invisible glass at the moment, but when I wash my car, only uses optimum car wash/ONR. I am pretty sure that they marketing the coating should be able to resist harsh chemicals?

 

[The Guz]

Hopefully others chime in because I don’t see anything wrong with your application.

The car wash and glass cleaner are no issues. I use those as well.

I do know that Gloss Coat is not recommended for the front glass as it doesn’t do well with the abrasion from the wiper blades.

 

[kiddkai]

I only did gloss-coat on the driver side window, not the windshield tho. But it heads the water really well at the moment. The whole windshield covered with flyby forte, but it still beads, but pretty flat.

 

[kiddkai]

More shots:

Front windshield:



Roof windshild (with gloss-coat + AW enigma wax):



Compared to other areas on the car, windshield has the least hydrophobic surface

 

[Georgesakr]

Did you use the same applicator for a 3rd pass?without adding more product