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Really, it did!
OK, maybe not, but I had tiny white marks on the nose of my hood that looked and felt like rock chips. Yesterday was the first time I clayed my car since it had a full paint correction in February (I feel guilty admitting thiis, almost like when you visit a dentist for the first time in 3 years...)
After claying my car, I really didn't think about the rock chips on my hood until I re-examined the area in preparation for applying some touch up paint (before waxing) and I noticed that most of them had disappeared!
The "rock chips" had been tiny, about 1-2 mm in diameter, and there was probably about a dozen before the claying. After the claying, only 3-4 remained. I can only speculate what I thought had been paint chips were actually some bonded contaminants that looked and felt like they had edges and depth.
Also, despite not having been clayed in 10 months and being an "outdoor" car (no garage, parked in a driveway without any cover), I was surprised how little contaminants (other than my phantom rock chips) came off in the clay. While the paint felt definitely smoother, the clay showed little or no discoloration.
Great testament to what regular washings and quick detail sprays can do to preserve your paint!
OK, maybe not, but I had tiny white marks on the nose of my hood that looked and felt like rock chips. Yesterday was the first time I clayed my car since it had a full paint correction in February (I feel guilty admitting thiis, almost like when you visit a dentist for the first time in 3 years...)
After claying my car, I really didn't think about the rock chips on my hood until I re-examined the area in preparation for applying some touch up paint (before waxing) and I noticed that most of them had disappeared!
The "rock chips" had been tiny, about 1-2 mm in diameter, and there was probably about a dozen before the claying. After the claying, only 3-4 remained. I can only speculate what I thought had been paint chips were actually some bonded contaminants that looked and felt like they had edges and depth.
Also, despite not having been clayed in 10 months and being an "outdoor" car (no garage, parked in a driveway without any cover), I was surprised how little contaminants (other than my phantom rock chips) came off in the clay. While the paint felt definitely smoother, the clay showed little or no discoloration.
Great testament to what regular washings and quick detail sprays can do to preserve your paint!
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