Could some explain this for me please?

[BIGNICK]

Just flicking through a thread and came across this "So i started with a good snow foam and wash then i clayed the whole van very time consuming but well worth it the amount of muck and little bits that came off was unreal." its in regards to a sweet little White 2k and giving it a fierce shine. can someone explain this cleaning procedure cos I aint never heard of clay making things cleaner!

[DADDY]

Detailing clay is an abrasive system. If not used properly, detailing clay can cause light surface marring. There’s no need to fear if you use proper lubrication.
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Read the patents on detailing clay and they describe very clearly that it is a mixture of a clay base (polybutene) and various abrasives. The primary detailing clay patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,727,993) identifies three unique elements (claim 57) used in concert:

“A method of polishing a protrusion or stain from a surface comprising; applying a plastic flexible tool to the surface, the plastic flexible tool comprising a plastic flexible material having mixed therewith an abrasive comprising grains from about 3 to 50 m ( I think they mean 3-50 micro or nano meter in diameter) and; applying a force to the plastic flexible tool such that a polishing force per area is applied by the plastic flexible tool to a protrusion or stain on the surface, and such that the amount of force per area applied to the surface is less than the amount of force per area applied to the protrusion or stain.”

[BIGNICK]

Sweet! Cheers for that..

Can you recommend a good product for a novice buffer?

Will it be a case of you get what you pay for on ebay ?

[feeman]

My god claying is the best thing you can do leaves the paint really smooth and is alot easier to polish and wax. I bought a buffer its called a tool-mate but its not the best of them and you need to be carefull going close to rub strips and handles, i scuffed the paint on mine leaving about 3 inches of a mark and i was just like stopped using it and just finished it by hand but if your carefull it leaves a great finish and saves alot of elbow grease

[BIGNICK]

Ive been looking at the autoglym detailing kit, just cos it's available at halfords, you don't seem to get much clay, is it a tricky to use?
Look at a 15" hand held buffer to polish after claying, just need to get my head round it all.

Its been a long week..

[feeman]

I used the meguiars clay but id say the auto glym is every bit as good, its easy to do just wash the car then spray the lubricant onto the car and a bit on the clay and just rub it onto the car and buff off, theres a video of it on youtube if you look on cleaning and detailing in the maintenance section of the forum i think theres a link to it. I was the same aswell sort of when i heard clay and sealents and everything else

[feeman]

scratch that just go into youtube and type in meguiars clay bar, dont know how to do a link

[BIGNICK]

That was the other stuff I was looking at, can't be much different I guess. Although I could be wrong!?

Thanks for the heads up I'll check it out, summat to keep me busy over the weekend.

[DADDY]

Halfroids are doing to for price of one this week, I was looking at a Pro clay bar a while back It would have been 10 times more clay than the Maguire stuff, but no lube. I think it was called a voodoo bar or something mad like that, but trade lads in the states seemed to use it.

[Doc]

Bilt Hamber Autoclay is the pick of what is available for a beginner IMO, it's HUGE (3-4 times the size of Meguiars) and you can just use water and your normal car shampoo as a lube.

[dooka]

Get yourself some Aquartz iron cut, will get the rest of the crap out of the paint, well metal based crap, such as rail dust, brake dust etc..

[Doc]

Can you get that in a trade size dooka? Can't see 500ml lasting me very long with 4 cars at the house.

[dooka]

Yes you can, its around £140..

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[shaun]

Its all down to trail and error really thats why i enjoy cleaning as you get to try different products all the time but i would recommend the autoglym hi def wax kit also the megiuars clay kit is also not to bad.

But if you have the time check out "clean your car" or "elite car care" both are very good for cleaning products

[BIGNICK]

Cheers for the advice guys, I had a look on eBay to see what was avalible there, but there wasn't really any special bargains and when I wasn't really sure what I was meant to be getting I ended up for autoglym detailing kit, I also picked some extra polish (cos I didn't think the pokey little bottle in the kit would be enough, it was!) and some extra gloss protection muck.
So I started with a rinsing, then turtle wax shampooed and chamoised. Then it rained! So I chamoised again. Started the pretty long, buy suprisingly satisfying job of claying, then resin polish and finally gloss protector. So after 4hrs and rubbing the car top to toe 8times it gives a pretty impressive shine..

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