Clay bar

[Jared420]

Anyone else use a clay bar on their whip? I spent about 5-6 hours clay barring my truck yesterday. Weather just started to get a bit better out, snow is all gone accept for where there was 4' piles. Decided to give the truck it's first good cleanup after the winter. I've noticed especially on white paint most cars seem to get those little tiny looks like rust spots all over the place that you can only see from 2 feet or closer. My truck even though its barely a year old was covered with them, tar, and other impurities stuck in the clear coat. Clay bar is tedious work and a bunch of elbow grease but it pulls EVERYTHING out. Stuff works great and leaves you with a great finish.

[Carbon]

I clay after the winter.

[Jared420]

I washed twice dried it all off then got to work with the bar. I got the meguiars clay kit.

[SnowDrifter]

I do mine twice a year.

Doing in the first time is always the worst since the car has probably never been clayed before. But then after that, it only takes a half hour-45 minutes each time because there is so much less embedded contaminant.

Another thing that make it go by faster is to get a paint-safe iron dissolver, since most of the stuff stuck in there is little metalic particles from brake pads. I recomend Iron X for this. It's expensive, but a little bit goes a long way and it really reduces the risk of marring since there aren't sharp bits of iron in the clay

[CleanSierra]

I've got the blue and red clay and try once a year. Swirls need buffed.

[kl0wn]

We use some kind of liquid clay bar on cars before we wax them where I work at. Cannot remember the name of the stuff but the cars look damn near brand new when we are done.

[DubNDodge]

Never even heard of this

[CNF Kevosinn]

cray bars are the shit. then do the 3 step clean/polish/wax after

[Jared420]

I do mine twice a year.

Doing in the first time is always the worst since the car has probably never been clayed before. But then after that, it only takes a half hour-45 minutes each time because there is so much less embedded contaminant.

Another thing that make it go by faster is to get a paint-safe iron dissolver, since most of the stuff stuck in there is little metalic particles from brake pads. I recomend Iron X for this. It's expensive, but a little bit goes a long way and it really reduces the risk of marring since there aren't sharp bits of iron in the clay

Yeah it was more or less the brownish spots that took me a while. Looks like rust but I've been told its oils or something coming out of the paint? But getting the rest out was pretty easy just glide over it a couple times and the clay pulled it right off

[CleanSierra]

Never even heard of this

Someone should post a link of a kit. It's a car bar you run over your paint and it pulls up overspray, fallout, road grime, and other imperfections.