mikey
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The oblique reflectivity is substantially less after one month. I do have two trucks, one with CARC, but they are a few miles apart. I may have them together in a few weekends to compare. I'm willing to bet, just by memory, that the Behr does have more of a shine, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that the more the truck gets wet now, the painted one, and the more those soapy bubbles come off, the flatter it gets.Well, I am sure I didn't wait long enough for the full performance of the Behr stuff. No doubt on that. I now recall several such stories about it's performance after a period of time. I wonder how the oblique reflectivity is after a month. Have you had military CARC to compare against? I remember when we drove up to pick up my buddy's truck, it was dark out and raining. It was parked facing us on the other side of a narrow suburban street and if we had not had our headlights reflect off of the truck's headlights at about 15~20 feet away, we would have run right into the truck. That's how low the reflectivity is on the original stuff. I haven't tried painting a whole truck with other stuff (Behr, Gillespie, etc.) to compare against, but that is pretty impressive. Likewise, when we started driving it home at night, I was following the truck and people would pass me, get past the truck's rear marker lights and then try to merge back into our lane (right into the side of the truck) until they see it at the last second and swerve back over.
I don't want car accidents, but let's just say that, for other reasons, I want the reflectivity performance of original CARC.
Below are pics from the day I painted. I'll get the same angles this weekend. Although, pictures obviously can't compete with the human eye.
Mikey
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