How often do I need to clay my car's finish?
The question is often asked,
"How often do I need to clay my car's finish?"
The answer is,
"It depends on where you park your car and what's floating in the air"
If you spent one day detailing your car including claying it and applying a coating of wax, and the next day your car was parked in a parking lot like this,
And about 100 yards away is a painter elevated into the sky spraying paint onto a building like this...
Then because the wind will tend to carry the overspray through the air until it finds a place to touch down and come to rest, you may very well need to clay your car the next day.
"How often you need to clay your car's finish depends on what's floating in the air where you park your car"
As I drove down the road from where this building is being sprayed, I stopped to take a photograph of this Corvette sitting behind a fence in the owners front yard while he was doing some upgrades to the house that required access to the garage.
It's completely possible the paint overspray being sprayed into the air just a few blocks down the road could come to rest on this Corvette's finish as well as everything else, including the window glass and the convertible top.
What Meguiar's teaches is that in order to know whether or not you need to clay, or re-clay your car's finish, you need to evaluate the condition of the finish, with both your eyes and your sense of touch.
So the answer to,
"How often do I need to clay my car's finish?"
Is as often as necessary and the way you determine if claying is necessary is to evaluate the condition of the finish, with both your eyes and your sense of touch.
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Note: The above photos were all taken on August 2nd, at approximately noon at a nearby establishment.
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Some people do manage to mar their paint when they clay so they're presumably taking off some clear on a b/c car.
