What Happens When Use A Clay Bar?

[Hadouken]

Glorious shineyness

Also I got some CF wrap off ebay. It arrived yesterday and I got cracking. I love it. Changes the whole feel of the interior

[GoHard]

Nice. You sealed after claying right? Clay gets rid of your old wax too...

[Hadouken]

Ofcoarse I did. Washed car -> clayed -> washed car -> sealed with meguiars gold class

[Batchy]

im claying mine now, well have been for the last 7 hours and theres still more to go, there was some crazy contamination

all ova her that look like it was rusting but luckily the clay bar is taking it all off

[babyskyline]

Looks very good...i have clay barred a few cars i have owned now and it makes such a big difference to how the car comes up!!!

Definitely recommend spending a few hours doing it to really bring out the shine in your paint.

Can i ask who the seller was on ebay. Have heard there are some crap CF wraps. Yours looks really nice.

[Yo-Yo]

nice job, CF always looks shite in pictures but awesome in real life

[The Bogan]

I hose my car and clean the windows once a week, sometimes I need to pour some water on bird poo to soften it a bit.

Every couple of months it gets Turtle wash and wax using a old T-shirt, yeah I know Im spoiling it but hey.

[GTRsean]

So clean!! I so have to get around to doing that to my car. Being white you can see all the little dots of crap on the paint.

[GoHard]

Whites a bitch like that.

Work mate lives up-wind of the steel works at port kembla. white roof, blue car. He spends lots of time maintaining it but its the white that shows everything.

Just a note,

If you drop the clay bar, chuck it. Don't try to pull the bits of dirt out, chuck it or you could scratch your clear. A tip, use small (as practical) pieces so if you drop it, your not wasting much.

P.S You need to wrap your ashtray lid too

Edited October 1, 2011 by GoHard

[NISSAN GTR]

Now what you should have done is use final inspection light cleanse after claying to remove left over clay , washing does not remove it , its likely you have sealed clay under your final coat .

Heres the order :

Wash

Claybar

Cleanse

Polish

Cleanse

Wax , not Carnuba rubbish

Lower car STAT !!!!!!!

Your welcome

[Hadouken]

Haha, definately need get some lowering status. I hate 4x4 status. Im surprised it took so long for someone to say that .

Ash tray lid will get wrapped dont worry .

Also hmmm couldve used a cleanse, but ah well. Ive clay barred quite a few cars and never had a problem

@Babyskyline - CF Wrap There you go. On sale for another 9 days

[cobbadan]

Im surprised nobody's said, What the hell are you doing washing the GTR at carlovers / whatever its called in your area.

Especially on a dark coloured car, with the fine scratches & swirl marks those brooms leave behind. Next time your at a servo at night have a good look at your paint under their fluro lights,, you'll see em.

It depends how pedantic you wanna be i suppose, but when i first got my car, the paint had never really been looked after so it was a big job,, i spent three long days claying, removing swirl marks and polishing with an orbital, then waxing. After spending that long getting it up to scratch, there was no way in hell i was gonna go to carlovers and wash it with the same broom that oldmate just washed his dirtbike and his 4wd with. even if you do spray the broom before ya start.

The CF wrap looks pretty good,, how hard was it to apply without stuffing it up ?

[Hadouken]

Haha You think Im a rookie? No way will I touch any of my cars with those pieces of sh..... brooms. Because I dont have my own tap at home, I go at night with my own bucket of equipment and just use their water. I do actually care about my car haha.

The CF wrap isnt that hard to apply, all you need is a hair dryer and a little bit of patience. The beauty of it is, even if you stuff up a little bit by creasing it or something you just peel it back and start again. Its very forgiving.

[Triptych]

how well does it stick? I have had issues with the carbon wrap I ordered (different supplier) and firstly it doesn't stick too well around edges and now its starting the shrink where I used heat to mould it

[cobbadan]

Nice work on the after hours car wash. I've never actually done that but I've almost done it a few times.

I did think you might have been doing that until I saw the other cars in the background.

Ever had anybody say anything ?

[Hadouken]

@ Adam - Its only been on for 2 days. So far so good. I hope it doesnt start peeling, and if it does ah well it only cost $5 dollars .

@Dan - After hours I get no trouble, people actually come up to me and say "thats a great idea, wish I brought my bucket". Haha. And yeh, friday night was exceptionally busy. I did not expect it. But no one bothered me. And I was there for 3 hours haha.

[pfcr33]

Hey eat_me

How is the CF wrap holding up?

[Hadouken]

After letting it all settle and gave it a good trim, Its now schmicker than ever.

[pfcr33]

Aawesome, might have to do mine when I have to time to do it right, I got the CF wrap sitting there waiting.

I must say I got a bit board and now my phone looks rather cool wrapped in CF

Did you end up doing you ash tray, I was wondering how it would go with the tigher curves