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Hey folks,
New user here and have enjoyed the wealth of knowledge on this site.
I tried to make this as detailed as I could:
This past Tuesday night I thought "what the heck, I'll try to claybar just a bit of my car to see what the fuss is about."
I have the Smooth Surface Clay Kit. After reading the instructions, I fully cleaned (with Meg's Gold Class & the 2-bucket method) and dried properly (with a Cobra waffle-weave MF towel) roughly half of my hood.
I have an '07 Galaxy Grey Honda Civic and am (for lack of a better word) anal with washing, drying, etc. Prior to claying, the car had very, very minimal fine clearcoat scratches on it and only on paricular parts (hood, trunklid) - the kind that just 'come naturally' with the normal wear-and-tear of washing & drying. Also, my car hadn't had ANY paint treatment yet (no clay, polish, wax) apart from weekly/biweekly washing (I'm the only person to touch my car).
I had a MF towel on-hand and the Meg's Quick Detailer that came with the clay kit. I prepped a small piece of clay and very liberally sprayed about a 2' x 2' section of the hood. With very light pressure (I figured I'd start light and increase pressure if need be) I clayed that area, going back and forth, up & down, in all directions, making sure to keep the QD on the hood plenty. The clay slid across the area very smoothly - clay didn't 'catch' on the hood. I didn't have much resid
After I finished (probably after about 45-60 seconds), I checked the clay and although there was not much contiminants at all on the clay, the paint felt a lot smoother. I didn't wipe the area down with a MF towel but I did wash the hood area again to get the QD off and dried it.
The following day it was nice & sunny and I noticed some markings going from L to R across the hood in the area that I clayed.
Initially I thought: "aw, what the heck?!" then I perused these forums and thought it might be clay residue but I'm not sure.
I didn't do any other work on the paint post-claying (i.e. paint cleaner, polish, wax) because I didn't think one had to immediately after claying. I thought that I'd do all the post-claying steps when I had time to fully wash & dry the whole car.
Yesterday i thought it may've been some clay residue so I washed/dried it but the marks were still there. The paint doesn't feel any diff but the marks are definitely still there.
To note: I have some NXT 2.0, #83, #80, Swirl Remover 2.0, and a PC7424.
My friend suggested cleaning the area again tonite and tossing on some NXT 2.0 to see if that would hide these marks.
*sigh*
I'm hesitant to clay the entire car until I get this figured out
o_0
Any thoughts/questions/comments?
Paint cleaner?
#80?
Swirl Remover 2.0?
NXT 2.0?
All?
None?
New user here and have enjoyed the wealth of knowledge on this site.
I tried to make this as detailed as I could:
This past Tuesday night I thought "what the heck, I'll try to claybar just a bit of my car to see what the fuss is about."
I have the Smooth Surface Clay Kit. After reading the instructions, I fully cleaned (with Meg's Gold Class & the 2-bucket method) and dried properly (with a Cobra waffle-weave MF towel) roughly half of my hood.
I have an '07 Galaxy Grey Honda Civic and am (for lack of a better word) anal with washing, drying, etc. Prior to claying, the car had very, very minimal fine clearcoat scratches on it and only on paricular parts (hood, trunklid) - the kind that just 'come naturally' with the normal wear-and-tear of washing & drying. Also, my car hadn't had ANY paint treatment yet (no clay, polish, wax) apart from weekly/biweekly washing (I'm the only person to touch my car).
I had a MF towel on-hand and the Meg's Quick Detailer that came with the clay kit. I prepped a small piece of clay and very liberally sprayed about a 2' x 2' section of the hood. With very light pressure (I figured I'd start light and increase pressure if need be) I clayed that area, going back and forth, up & down, in all directions, making sure to keep the QD on the hood plenty. The clay slid across the area very smoothly - clay didn't 'catch' on the hood. I didn't have much resid
After I finished (probably after about 45-60 seconds), I checked the clay and although there was not much contiminants at all on the clay, the paint felt a lot smoother. I didn't wipe the area down with a MF towel but I did wash the hood area again to get the QD off and dried it.
The following day it was nice & sunny and I noticed some markings going from L to R across the hood in the area that I clayed.
Initially I thought: "aw, what the heck?!" then I perused these forums and thought it might be clay residue but I'm not sure.
I didn't do any other work on the paint post-claying (i.e. paint cleaner, polish, wax) because I didn't think one had to immediately after claying. I thought that I'd do all the post-claying steps when I had time to fully wash & dry the whole car.
Yesterday i thought it may've been some clay residue so I washed/dried it but the marks were still there. The paint doesn't feel any diff but the marks are definitely still there.
To note: I have some NXT 2.0, #83, #80, Swirl Remover 2.0, and a PC7424.
My friend suggested cleaning the area again tonite and tossing on some NXT 2.0 to see if that would hide these marks.
*sigh*
I'm hesitant to clay the entire car until I get this figured out
o_0
Any thoughts/questions/comments?
Paint cleaner?
#80?
Swirl Remover 2.0?
NXT 2.0?
All?
None?
...car had been there for about 30 min (did it at around 7:30 pm)
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