Re: RE: Today I Did Some Detailing
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Originally Posted by Curran
Saved yourself 5 hours? Dont know what way you are claying with a clay bar; even if it was a Transit, it should only take 2 hours!
Also, you say you have to tackle the car on the lower doors....did you clay the car before removing the tar? Perhaps the reason claying with the clay bar is taking so long is that you havent help the decontamination process by using a fall out remover and tar remover first....if you use both of these, claying a car should really only take an hour, max! Perhaps the clay mitt isnt removing as much as it should either, if you are getting it done so quickly?
Anyways, fair play on tackling the paintwork - get some pics up when you get it done! ;)
Maybe 5 hours was an overstatement [emoji12] but easy took 25% of the time it would with a normal clay bar. Claying a full car would take me 2-3 hours as I take my time and constantly lube and kneed the clay. Voyager would def take me 3 hours with normal clay. It was 25 degrees on the day so wasnt in a massive hurry.
I always decontaminate before clay, above trim was clean, below was covered in tar so didn't touch it and left it till another day [emoji14], swirls are still there but drastically reduced ~70%
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Have you got a bit of clay bar? Preferably white!
Purely out of curiosity....Id be interested to see what results you would get if you clayed both the rear 1/4 panels with with clay bar, like you would have previously, without kneading it to a fresh surface. If the clay mitt did a good job, when there shouldnt really be anything on the surface.
Re: RE: Today I Did Some Detailing
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Originally Posted by Curran
Have you got a bit of clay bar? Preferably white!
Purely out of curiosity....Id be interested to see what results you would get if you clayed both the rear 1/4 panels with with clay bar, like you would have previously, without kneading it to a fresh surface. If the clay mitt did a good job, when there shouldnt really be anything on the surface.
Have no clay bar with me unfortunately [emoji20] like for like I think a clay bar would take up more contamination but takes longer and chance of marring. For my own car realistically I would clay bar if given the chance 1 or 2 years and use the mitt for interm claying maybe once a year minimum if you understand.
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Yeah, I know what you mean! I need to use one myself to give a fair assessment, but wont be using it on my own car....my logic says that its exactly like dragging a sponge across the surface of the paintwork! ;)
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Have a scrap panel at home, must polish it then clay mitt it to see how it holds up. Will be Christmas before I can try it unfortunately [emoji20]
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Sorry for posting this here. Can anybody recommend me a power washer or tell me what the nilfisk c110 is like.
Thanks
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All Nilfisk machines are solid.
RE: Today I Did Some Detailing
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Originally Posted by Owen E46
Have a scrap panel at home, must polish it then clay mitt it to see how it holds up. Will be Christmas before I can try it unfortunately [emoji20]
If you polish it, it will remove quite a bit of contamination and as a result there wony be anything to cause damage when using the mitt....unless you use the mitt on it after claying a different car that had contamination.
Re: RE: Today I Did Some Detailing
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Originally Posted by Curran
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Originally Posted by Owen E46
Have a scrap panel at home, must polish it then clay mitt it to see how it holds up. Will be Christmas before I can try it unfortunately [emoji20]
If you polish it, it will remove quite a bit of contamination and as a result there wony be anything to cause damage when using the mitt....unless you use the mitt on it after claying a different car that had contamination.
I was going to see the level of marring each would create, shouldn't be much if it freshly polished but as u mentioned the downside of the mitt is that it can't be folded so any embedded contaminants could act like a brillo pad, mitt will be only used 2 or 3 times before I get to do this test so could be interesting to see if the mitt can not scratch the paintwork
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Not a fan of these new clay mitts, any pic I have seen of them been used on DW the next photos have LOADS of marring!!!