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Protecting your roof ready for winter

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Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by Ricey01 » Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:58 pm

If your thinking or worried about it, thing or worry no more.

This stuff is amazing - Gtechniq Smart Fabric

Here's a video of a roof I've treated



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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by Swiftly » Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:25 pm

I used this stuff last year and was really impressed how well it repels water. The only down side is when its raining and you open the door to either enter or leave the car, the water just pours in like a waterfall and you end up getting slightly damp :lol:

It still gets a 10 from me though :thumbsup:
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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by mad4slalom » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:22 pm

wow good product, does it have Nano technology :D

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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by Carol M » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:34 pm

I use this stuff. It's amazing :thumbsup:

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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by Geezah » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:42 pm

Is the roof fabric supposed to be 100% waterproofed in this way?
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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by The Badger » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:15 pm

I have been washing my car this summer with Car Plan Shampoo
Bodywork/ wheels/ Roof everything and my roof beads just the same ?

Looks great as well !

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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by Ricey01 » Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:21 pm

The Badger wrote:I have been washing my car this summer with Car Plan Shampoo
Bodywork/ wheels/ Roof everything and my roof beads just the same ?

Looks great as well !
Calling custard on that one!

Video or it didn't happen :P

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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by Ricey01 » Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:28 pm

Geezah wrote:Is the roof fabric supposed to be 100% waterproofed in this way?
I doubt it's a 100% proofing to be honest.

You'd be talking of something like UltraEveryDry to get that. That's an ultra hydroscopic treatment.

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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by The Badger » Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:23 am

Ricey01 wrote:
The Badger wrote:I have been washing my car this summer with Car Plan Shampoo
Bodywork/ wheels/ Roof everything and my roof beads just the same ?

Looks great as well !
Calling custard on that one!

Video or it didn't happen :P

Eh ?

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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by Ricey01 » Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:13 am

It mean I don't think anything Car Plan make is creating a hydroscopic seal on a fabric roof so I require a video of the roof repelling water like the Smart Fabric did, with a tin of custard in shot otherwise I don't believe it! [emoji12]

In short it's just a bit of banter Mon Badger.

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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by domsz4 » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:55 am

Swiftly wrote:I used this stuff last year and was really impressed how well it repels water. The only down side is when its raining and you open the door to either enter or leave the car, the water just pours in like a waterfall and you end up getting slightly damp :lol:

It still gets a 10 from me though :thumbsup:
same for me after the autoglym stuff, people used to look at me funny in the car park as id get swoosh all the water off above the door with my hand before getting in :D
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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by PerryGunn » Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:21 am

Gtecniq i1 is great, I've been using it for the last couple of years and have no complaints about it's longevity either... :thumbsup:

There was a great video of a sheet of newspaper treated with i1 being held in a bucket of water and coming out unaffected with the water streaming off
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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by bony_13 » Thu Oct 02, 2014 3:48 pm

I have a 500ml bottle sitting in the garage wating to use, but I want to Renovo colour my roof first.
Seems that I'm wating for a weekend that is 1 -Dry, 2-Not windy, 3- free of other commitments.....not any time soon then it seems!

I was actually suprised I hadn't seen it discussed on the forum here, defiinitely will get some pictures up when it's on

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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by PerryGunn » Thu Oct 02, 2014 8:14 pm

bony_13 wrote:I have a 500ml bottle sitting in the garage wating to use, but I want to Renovo colour my roof first.
Seems that I'm wating for a weekend that is 1 -Dry, 2-Not windy, 3- free of other commitments.....not any time soon then it seems!

I was actually suprised I hadn't seen it discussed on the forum here, defiinitely will get some pictures up when it's on
It does get mentioned from time to time, often in threads about roof cleaning e.g. http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=49741

You don't have to wait for a wind free day to use i1, you can paint it on as well as spray it
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Re: Protecting your roof ready for winter

Post by Confused® » Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:28 pm

like the look of this but it has no uv protection. 303 High-Tech Fabric Guard does, anyone tried it?

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