Puddling on focus roof

[wwe9112]

At the time of this picture I literally waxed the whole car a couple of days prior to the storm and the rain just isn't running off of the roof of my '14 focus se sedan. -_- idk what I'm doing wrong. I waxed the whole thing, uw sat for about 16 minutes if I remember correctly to the dot. Did the swipe test and boom it puddles. No where else on the car does this. Am I doing something wrong. I ask because I just redid the car again and it still puddles. Do all '14 focuses do this? Maybe this isn't considered puddling and I'm over thinking idk.

Thanx

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[Michael Stoops]

Re: Puddling on focus roof

We think you are overthinking this. The roof is likely the flattest part of the car - the most horizontal to the ground, as it were. You've got great beading, for sure, but for the water to actually move off a panel it needs help, either from wind (ie, the car is moving) or gravity (ie, the panel slopes quite a bit or is vertical). Gravity can not, will not, pull water sideways across a panel and then down off the side of the car. We are highly confident, however, that if you were to take a hose and use just light to moderate water pressure (no nozzle, we want a clean laminar flow of water) and run that over the roof you would sheet off the vast majority of these beads.

[wwe9112]

Re: Puddling on focus roof

That makes sense, sorry about the dumb question lol. Thank you!