Can Automotive Coatings Protect Your Smartphone?...

If you're interested in the

automotive

scene, you may have heard of these newfangled ceramic

coatings

, these seemingly magical paint

protect

ors that some say make it so you never have to wash

your

car and make the water run off

your

body again. I will also see that these

coatings

are advertised as having a hardness of 9h, which makes it seem like they would make anything you apply them to much more scratch resistant. Now my first assumption was that this has to be just snake oil, but what the hell it's ridiculous, but after doing it. According to some research, there seems to be some truth to this, after applying this magical layer and giving it time to cure, a semi-permanent layer is created that adheres to the top of the paint and fills the pores, making the surface very gentle on pores. full, there is much less surface area for dirt and water to adhere to and as a result, dirt and water just falls or comes off Now, it may not be enough to never have to wash your car again, but at least will help you. stay clean longer, which is great, but this is a technology channel, not a car channel, so we wanted to see if you can take this

protect

or that is usually used for cars and use it to protect your

smartphone

from small scratches, fingerprints and well, no. water, it still has holes where water can get in, but at least those other things and this video is brought to you by ifixit.

The mahi ifixit driver kit includes a quarter inch aluminum screwdriver handle with a knurled handle with magnetic tip and rotating top and 48 screwdriver bits check it in the link in the video description. We bought this kit online and in theory it has everything we need to apply it ourselves, so on a car what you would normally do is a full paint correction to remove any dirt and contamination that was already present on the paint of the car. car so that the coating adheres properly and does not block the dirt underneath for us, which can basically be achieved by cleaning a phone with a microfiber cloth and a little alcohol.

You should get some alcohol, where is the? alcohol, okay, that's better, so you know we're using a xiaomi mi 8, just because we have one lying around, it doesn't have a built in screen protector, but it uses Corning Gorilla Glass 5, so this should be pretty representative the type of glass you have on your device, if you have something reasonably modern, that's a lot of stuff, so you have a little microfiber cloth, more like something chamois type, so apparently you do this and you clean your a little bit just clean do your little cleaning thing look it's a phone it's already soft it should be fine I'm going to put the gloves on okay yeah I'm swimming in it this is the applicator cloth oh well why am I using that to clean it?

Damn, Jake, okay, I'll follow the instructions. Wow, how to apply the optimal method. Wash clay bar to polish ipa wipe. Simple method. Wash the ipa wipe. Well, we reduced it before putting it on. I want to talk about our methodology. My goal is to just destroy a phone in this process, so what I'm going to do is apply the ceramic coating to half the screen and half the bag, then I'm going to let it cure for 24 hours and come back with ah. Yeah, jerry rig, everything, fans rejoice, we finally got one of these Moe hardness test kits so we too can talk about level six scratches with deeper level seven grooves.

You know the drill, so basically the way most of the hardness scale works is the harder materials, so the ones with higher numbers should scratch the softer materials, so the ones with numbers lower ones and the softer ones shouldn't scratch the harder ones, so they have all these different selections here and then they have this handy dandy. Small scale showing which materials my picks should be able to scratch and which ones they shouldn't. Diamond has a hardness of 10, so it is the maximum according to the Mohs hardness scale and if the specifications of this ceramic coating are to be believed.

It would be almost as strong as diamond, which would be very impressive given that Gorilla Glass 3 is estimated to be between five and a half and six and a half. I remember we took this test when I was probably in fifth grade or six and the first question on the test was read through the whole test before we started and then it was just a normal test and then the last question was good job you read the whole test before to begin, do not complete any of the other The questions were simply left blank and it was like a test of following the instructions.

Did you do what I did? Actually it turns out I can do it. I'm just not right, wiping a thin layer over the surface of the car. Damn, I should have read the whole thing. instructions before you start, okay, okay, okay, something sucks. I don't know how to get around the camera bump. Why do we accept this? Consumers let the coating sit and then remove the residue by lightly buffing it with a microfiber towel. Yes, I can definitely see. the excess that comes I wonder how this is different from the nano-coated screen protector I dragged behind my motorcycle several years ago.

That worked really well, although I was very impressed, so maybe tomorrow I'll be impressed. Yes of course. The sales materials are different from the manual. The longer it stays dry, the better, as it will continue to cure. Allow at least 48 hours for initial drying and avoid water, rain or snow in the car. We do not recommend washing or exposing the car. water for four to seven days afterwards like there's some kind of line there, but I'm also trying not to polish the line because I don't want to bring material to the part that I want to use as a control so hard. tell me, okay, I knew this would come in handy for something someday, so I'm putting it there so it doesn't accidentally touch anything while it's drying.

Having waited the required day, I am now ready to play with this, so let's see if it behaves differently on normal glass than on coated glass, I just want a few drops here, you know, what more drops, ah , let's spread these drops, it should be fine, so what I want to see is if they have more beads. the coated part versus the uncoated part, keep in mind of course that most

smartphone

s already have oleophobic coatings, so I don't really expect a difference here, very interesting, although they seem to behave similarly when the moment. to pour it, it spills more easily, let's see if we make the same observation on the back.

Now the back is quite curved, so again you see very similar behavior. This is the coated side, but it's time to tilt it. Oh, interesting, it actually came off. less easily now I'm going to use my greasy fingerprints to grease the phone I don't notice any noticeable difference in readability wait, is this dead? Oh damn, I can't say I notice any noticeable difference in image clarity with the screen on, but often what separates the good from the bad when it comes to screen coatings is how easy it is to clean off the grease. , so we'll try to clean that side.

You could clean part of the cloth. Try to clean that up. wow side, that's very similar, okay, let's try it, uh, let's try my microfiber, this time I'll wipe a little harder, okay, that came out pretty clean, it came out pretty clean too, I wouldn't say there's a big difference here, okay, let's try to create. So this is a little bit more of a controlled test here, so let's put in four fingerprints. Four fingerprints. Okay, so what I'm going to do is basically clean up. Well, there's a little left. I'm going to clean up a lot of remains. it's gotten interesting, I'd say it's about three wipes to six to eight on the non-coded side, very cool, okay, let's do something similar on the back here, then four five, oh boy, six seven doesn't seem to help a lot here. eight nine ten nine ten 11 12.

I'd say it's a pretty similar result, let's take out the spikes now, so let's start with the back? I need a different type of marker, but I can read it well enough that it can be used without any scratches. from selection five here I hope there is no way it can hold up to this yes, paint scratches, can you see them? can you see them now? can you see them no i can't that's worse oh uh maybe there should be three lines here can you see them? I do not see them. That's hard to see. Well, let's not worry about that right now and then let's pick seven scratches very easily.

Well, I mean, I don't know what we're going to hype up right now. Yes, okay, yes. yes seven scratches eight obviously will be now for the ceramic coated side four five six seven here we go so the reason I'm retesting four is I want to make sure that the ceramic coating itself doesn't show any scratches or blemishes on the surface and so far it's not six here's where the ceramic coating could separate interesting time for the number seven and the behavior is basically identical and seven seems better than seven on the other hand we're going to bump this up to eight yeah that's definitely more noticeable but it still performs better when scratched it doesn't chip like the other side did with the ceramic coating and it looks basically identical to the other one and this is basically the same oh god they stabbed me with the pick it was.

Well I'm disappointed, I was basically hoping this would turn my glass into a diamond-like scratch barrier, is what I would say if I didn't know that this 9h hardness actually uses a completely different scale than the Mohs scale, so it's in I'm actually using the same hardness scale that pencils use, so this is a 9h pencil which is in the range of around three on the Mohs scale. Now what I did notice is that although the ceramic coating is not particularly hard when I was using it. With a selection of three, four or even five, I didn't notice any strange residue building up where the coating was being scraped off, leaving the glass exposed underneath, so it appears to be like a spectacularly thin layer on the glass.

It's also definitely different from the Liquid Armor I tried dragging behind my motorcycle all those years ago because once you got under it you could scrape it off and it created this kind of crunchy layer on top, but I can't even get off. If you wanted to try scraping it off with your fingernail, there are a couple more things I wanted to evaluate, so I just wanted to make sure the touchscreen responsiveness is still good with the ceramic coating. I'm not surprised to note that it does. In fact, it's imperceptible and there's one more thing I wanted to try.

Oh, I just stabbed myself with a pin removal tool, so I'm going to grab a couple of wrenches that are made of different materials. I will like it. try scraping and scratching the bottom of the screen here materials, both keys seem soft enough, this makes no difference, so, without any improvement in scratch resistance, the only selling point of our phone is the slight improvement in liquid drops. and repellent of, in our case, the front glass and the slight improvement we noticed in the ease of cleaning, although yes, particularly the last one, I suppose there is something to be said for that, especially since it is not particularly expensive, it is like a supply for life if all Do you ever use it?

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