Water Beading or Sheeting? The Truth About Paint Protection!

Water Beading or Sheeting? The Truth About Paint Protection! Ever wondered whether water beading or water sheeting is better for your car’s paint protection?

In this video, I do a deep dive into the differences between these two water behaviours that are commonly found in carnauba waxes, paint sealants, and ceramic coatings. Which one is superior? Find out by watching my video now!

⬇️🔶 LINKS TO QUALITY DETAILING PRODUCTS & TOOLS ⬇️⬇️

🇺🇸 For people in USA:

🇨🇦 For people in Canada:

🇬🇧 For people in the UK:

DISCLAIMER: This video and description contain affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission on a purchase without additional cost to you. If you do purchase through my affiliate links, thank you so much for your support!

Watch more of my videos below:

🎶 MUSIC I USE IN MY VIDEOS - Referral link, get a free trial by clicking below!

Welcome to Pan The Organizer, one of the biggest car detailing channels on YouTube, here to help you with fun and entertaining tutorials, tips, tricks, products and equipment reviews!

👍🏼 Click the like button if you enjoyed the video and share it with your friends and family. Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to my channel and activate the notifications (the bell icon) if you want to be notified every time I upload a new video. Welcome to the Pan The Organizer family!!

📲 Follow Pan The Organizer:
Instagram, TikTok, Facebook & Twitter: @pantheorganizer

🎶 Intro music by Hurley Mower

#WaterBeading #WaterSheeting #PaintProtection #detailing #cardetailing #cleaning #pantheorganizer #detailingtutorials #autodetailing

[PanTheOrganizer]

⬇️🔶 LINKS TO QUALITY DETAILING PRODUCTS & TOOLS ⬇️⬇️
🇺🇸 For people in USA:

🇨🇦 For people in Canada:

🇬🇧 For people in the UK:

[diydetailofficial]

Beading vs sheeting, the age old debate. Most sheeting products bead, most beading products will sheet. Hydrophilic in its purest form, water would not sheet, in fact water will stay and evaporate. There were flat sheeting products in the 80’s, they were a resounding commercial flop.

[KatrinaTrys]

I am here for 💯 of what you just said!!! I am one of the few that PERFER sheeting over beading!!! Yes i think water beading is sexy AF & it shows i care for my ride 😂 but at the end of the day, i only care about my paint! Some days i dont want to drag out my blower oit of the shed & just use a towel with some spray... Its a LOT easier when your not having to dry beads of water... 😂

[carlmontney]

Frankly, I don't give a sheet. I just want the water off quickly. Also, I'm old school so for me my mind says it must bead. But logic would tell me that sheeting off quickly is the best way to go.

I use the DIY rinseless wash method I saw on your channel and I can get the car dried quickly so water spots don't happen.

The best of both worlds option sounds great.

[VIDEOHEREBOB]

Beading. But I'm an Old School type. I still prefer waxes and sealants for an every day driver vehicle. Just my opinion.

[mad_bad_cat]

Great video! While it is a cool discussion, this feels like we are hitting the so-called XY Problem, which means we are “Asking about the solution, not the problem”.

The problem is not even “Beads leave round mineral deposits”, which is close.

I think we should be asking the question “Can we reject minerals so they do not permanently attach to the paint/coating?”

I don’t think it’s an easy question, though it’s effort put in the right place, instead of trying to figure out hybrid behaviour, which limits you to a single approach of getting the water away. If we could prevent minerals from bonding, or minimize it, we wouldn’t worry about sheeting vs. beading anymore.

[bambooshot]

Thank you for covering hydrophilic vs. hydrophobic properties. This needs more attention in general for detailing.

[davidm]

When the water is beading you get dirty circles, sheeting is better I think

[MrRamperez]

Hello Pan! Biggest fan and thank you for teaching me how to detail my cars. I feel you’ve paused speaking of your new Clean products. Time to get off the couch and start flooding us with videos of your products. They are word class and deserve to be highlighted. Silence the haters and show your fans more about Clean by Pan!!!!

[davidnuxoll]

a grander more broader discussion is how quickly water is repelled. I prefer sheeting as my truck is outside 24/7 and I live in southern USA. Compounding water spotting is the fact I live intown Atlanta so the environmental fallout from rainstorms as well make water spots an issue. Apex Detail years ago had a sealant Rehyrasheet (collab with Artdeshine) which was fantastic and the slickest product to date I've used. That product line is over and waterspotting an issue so I've gone retro back to wax. Waxes don't show water spots and my truck is a gunmetal metallic with gloss black accents so I'll sacrifice the tight round beads for a sheeter in a wax. So far the ceramic wax from Ethos has held up. Not the slickest feeling (topping it every wash with a detailer) but repels water and doesn't water spot.

[kushagrabhardwaj]

In my opinion and experience with my car's ceramic coating, water beads are formed when the flow of water on the car surface is low like rain while water sheeting happens when water flow is more(like you've shown here throwing water from a mug or pressure washer).
And I think sheeting is better as it doesn't leave spots. But yes, beads are visually appealing especially on windshield when beeds travels with a long tail(a shooting star like🌠).😊

[AscendedVitality]

Awesome Video PAN 😊
I Have been Detailing Cars for 35 Years. I Love Water Beads. AND… I Am Inspired by a Hybrid Ceramic Coating that Both Beads + Sheets, Resulting in No Water Spots. 🙏🏼💪🏼

[stevenv]

Pan I got to try your products. Wow you did your thing very impressed with it and how amazing it is. Your sealant make my vehicle looks ceramic coated. Which my vehicle is not. Good job 💪🏼💪🏼👍🏻👍🏻

[stfrompuertorico]

I prefer sheeting 😜👍🏼but people prefer beading because for them they feel protection is there, but sheeting makes it easier for minerals not to stay and dry on the surface faster even though this is an old debate 😜 just come to a place where summertime is all year long and you will see how sheeting makes dirt come off faster and vehicle will stay cleaner longer

[robertmurdock]

I have never given this topic much thought, thankfully. For me, it's always about getting the coating properly on the vehicle, then the water flies right off!

[JoosySmooyay]

My car is jet black and has 2 coats of TW hybrid solution ceramic, gets washed with Absolute and dried with hybrid solution wet wax. Water beads and flies off the car even when it's stationary at this point and during the weekly wash any waterspots come right off. I think the sheeting vs beading argument is less important when the base layer is sufficiently protective. As long as the deposits aren't sitting directly on the clear coat and etching into it I don't really see the benefit of either behaviour because the goal isn't to watch water fall off, the goal is to keep the car clean and free of those ugly waterspots! Before I coated the car it was absolutely covered in waterspots and the Chemical guys waterspot remover was the only thing that cleared them up entirely.

[altoncampbell]

WOW! Pan you always bring the info. I see the difference between beading and sheeting. The beading lets me know that I have a protective coating applied and I like the results. I can use a leaf blower to dry my vehicle quicker. However, I like the sheeting aspects as it leaves less water to dry. I have noticed that if it rains, the water will bead and when my car dries, I will have water spots left and will have to do a rinse and dry to remove the spots. Again your information on this subject helps me keep my DIY maintenance of my vehicles up to date. Thanks MSG Soup

[yavorhristov]

Beading is great for me. Depends on water ofcourse. Local water is very hard so drying is the thing that needs to be done 100%

[devonthetrain]

I would LOVE to see a hybrid that would be something unique to the industry for sure 😁🙌🏼

[dannydaugherty]

I like them both! I love seeing the beading but I also love to see it just sheet right off! Your car’s hydrophobics are insane 😮I love watching you rinse off your car! Great job 👏 as usual my friend! I love these new uploads!