Clay bar

[DubNDodge]

common sense ftw

Sounds like an all day job. Good thing for spring break

[CleanSierra]

common sense ftw

Sounds like an all day job. Good thing for spring break

Once or twice a year is all you need to do. Unless you live in an area where there are a bunch of pollutants in the air, ie California, or cities with big industry like Pittsburgh was at one point, Detroit.

[SnowDrifter]

common sense ftw

Sounds like an all day job. Good thing for spring break

Once or twice a year is all you need to do. Unless you live in an area where there are a bunch of pollutants in the air, ie California, or cities with big industry like Pittsburgh was at one point, Detroit.

Yup. My car is parked outside 24/7

I do it at the start of spring to get it all nice and pretty for the summer, then do it again going into the winter as a prep for my winter wax

[DubNDodge]

Yeah I live out in the country. Not many pollutants in the air.

I generally do the same thing as snow. Detail the car in the spring and in the fall. The same thing with oil change. Will have to take two days to do it instead of one now since I will be adding this "clay bar" to the ritual.

[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

Could you post a picture of those spots you were talking about? Oils don't come out of paint. It's a baked on, chemically hardened layer. Nothing oily about it haha

Yeah I wasn't sure about that theory dude who told me that is one of those guys who has an answer for everything. But yeah I think I took a pic of some of the spots Ill try and upload it tomorrow to show u what I'm talking about.

[ThreehundredC]

You should Never start the polish wax process until you clay your car smooth as glass all clay kits are the same so find a cheap one. i like to do it after i wash all the dirt then go over ti agaibn with the mitt to get suds for lubricant

[michigancapri92]

I use megires quick detailed as a lubricant for my fly bar... I love it makes the car like new

[DubNDodge]

Can anyone link me to a kit they are using? I don't want to cheap out on a kit and have it completely ruin my paint. Are the instructions generally included in the kit?

[Jared420]

Can anyone link me to a kit they are using? I don't want to cheap out on a kit and have it completely ruin my paint. Are the instructions generally included in the kit?

Yes there should be directions just wash real good before you start . Here is the one I got but I'm sure almost any kit you get will be fine

http://www.meguiarsdirect.com/product_detail.do?q=MEG+G1016

[Kyblack76]

common sense ftw

Sounds like an all day job. Good thing for spring break

Once or twice a year is all you need to do. Unless you live in an area where there are a bunch of pollutants in the air, ie California, or cities with big industry like Pittsburgh was at one point, Detroit.

Yup. My car is parked outside 24/7

I do it at the start of spring to get it all nice and pretty for the summer, then do it again going into the winter as a prep for my winter wax

Samn... I only have a car port.

And the wind, with sand/dirt is the killer in our state. Its like damn sand paper.

After a nice clay, and polish, the car looks like when i bought it. Makes me wanna go do it now!!!..

its raining.....