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and if you really want to feel the difference put your hand in a plastic baggy then run it over the paint surface. easily feel way more tiny dirt specs. i live right behind a thruway so the difference was easily noticeable when i ran my hand across the paint.

plus claying removes any of the small dirt particles that may get left behind after a good washing. then you rub them in when you wax. blah to that. but if you think your paint is that good to begin with then claying isn't needed.

 

I have detailed on and off for the past 6 years. Claying a car is one of the best things you can do. At the last shop that I worked for, we used a clay bar on all of the used cars. It removes all of the contaminants, and I recomend doing it for anyone that wants to machine polish their car. We used a more aggressive bar (Car Brite medium duty clay bar) that actually dulls the finish and needs to be finished with machine polishing. It definitely turns the finish of a car around.

 

lol someone is claiming claybars dont work, yet using dishsoap on their car was a good idea

one of the following probably happened:
1.the dishsoap is quite harsh on paint, it may have stripped off what the clay bar would have done
2.he accually didnt need claybar'd yet
3. he expected to see a difference with claybaring

 

I claybared my car yesterday and it made the world of difference. I used the meguiars kit, and it worked amazing. What i done was wash/dry/ then claybared the car...then i rewashed the car/dried it/waxed it with meguiars gold class. The paint looks better than it did when it was new.

 

If you use a clay bar and dont get good results your either

A. not doing it right (which is hard to screw up)
B. not seeing the results

Take any brand new car, any car and daily drive it for a month. Give it a good thorough wash and I still guarantee I can pull contaminants out of the paint using a clay bar.

 

I used clay magic clay bar on both my fiance's car and my own. As some of you may have seen in my post its made a huge difference in her 03 sunfire but wasn't nearly as much of a difference with my car. However just by simply brushing my hand over the paint before and after you could tell that it removed the contaminates because it was soo much smoother. You may not see a difference but you should be able to feel the difference.

 

Im disturbed by the fact that you used dish soap to strip the wax, then continued to use a paint CLEANER then all you did to seal it was put on cheap ass Turtle wax liquid polish. Should always follow a clay bar up wih a paint cleaner, polish then a nice solid wax.

 

Did you even read my post dipshit? Since when is mothers wax a "cheap ass Turtle wax liquid polish"

 

Did you see all kinds of **** in the clay after using it?

 

It was dirty but not much

 

there's no point of arguing the point. If he's not impressed he doesn't need to do it again. However the 90% of us that does like it will continue to use it. Nuff said

 

i just finsihed claying the car last weekend and just like what was stated.. you will feel the difference more then see it.. my car looks fine.. but once i was done with the bar.. the white bar was more of a murky brown when finished.. i was surprised how much **** was removed that the eye couldn't see...

the worst spot on my car that i found that perhaps you should test just to make sure everything your doing is working right is the Back lip by the trunk hatch .. this was the most "gritty" surface on the whole car that i found.