However, in your hurry don’t forget to always first spray a generous amount of lubricant as an extra layer of scratch protection between the mitt and your paint. For more agility in difficult-to-reach spots like around mirrors, door handles, grilles,… Autoscrub Fine Grade Towel wins the test. Same idea as the aforementioned mitt, but in the form of a towel. This makes it more pliable to get in all nooks and crannies. The vast majority of customers are over the moon about this clay combo, but a few complain that it is not harsh enough to remove heavily contaminated surfaces. We completely get that: we advise to start with a medium grade clay bar if your car paint has been neglected, then switch to the fine grade.

Pass the Clay Cloth over the wet surface. The Clay Cloth should be turned over or rinsed regularly to reduce the risk of removed contamination scratching the paintwork Although a clay mitt is faster, you should be aware that there’s a higher risk of micro-marring your paint than when you use a fine clay bar. Especially on dark car paint you might have to polish afterwards to remove micro marring, minute scratches that are only visible in full sunlight. It’s also harder to feel the surface when working with a mitt because of the rubbery moya layer. If you clay-bar your car in a cross-hatch pattern with a fine grade clay bar after you’ve washed it thoroughly first, you can’t really harm your car’s surface. However, it is very important to keep the clay bar, cloth or mitt well lubricated to prevent scratching. Do you have to wax after claying? Effectiveness –The consensus in the detailing community is that clay towels are not yet as effective at removing stubborn contaminants when compared to traditional clay bar ( about 90% )

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Completely satisfied, we proceeded to the next area, overlapping the first by a few inches just to make sure…This time we did double passes with plenty of lubricant to get it right from the first time. Gotten the hang of it, we could feel the contaminants loosening under the clay surface as friction gradually reduced.

Use this Fine Grade Clay Towel during the wash process or during a standard decontamination process. Unlike clay bars, synthetic clay towels allow you to rinse off contaminants after using providing you with a product that will last. Secondly, there’s no telling when, but over time these nasty gritty bits will come loose while you’re washing, polishing or coating your car, scratching the car surface in the process. So, instead of improving your car surface, you’re actually adding scratches and swirls. Thirdly, you’re applying a protective coating over contaminants that when they loosen, leave a spot (more likely thousands of spots) unprotected and vulnerable to corrosion. That makes no sense, does it? Even though it takes significantly longer to complete a car, my personal choice is still with the traditional style clay bar as I find that it will remove the more stubborn contaminants more effectively and I have more control in terms of being careful with potential marring.Why should you do something by hand if you can do it faster and better with a machine? That’s certainly true in most cases, but it does not apply to clay barring. While claying with a polisher and a special hook-and-loop adapter pad seems the easy, fast way to go, we do not recommend it. Darren is the founder of the DriveDetailed blog and is a keen detailing enthusiast living in the rainy south of Ireland. When he is not cleaning his car he is always researching ways he can improve his techniques and enjoys testing out new products. Mothers Speed Clay 2.0 is a game changer when it comes to ease of use and ergonomics. It does what a clay mitt or clay towel does but it distributes pressure more evenly like a clay bar does. Though clay towels and clay mitts last much longer than a clay bar, you should keep an eye on their rubbery surface: if it is damaged or begins to flake off, replace them. When the rubbery layer is damaged, it loses efficiency and might even scratch your car’s paint. Longevity If your car paint is like new and well cared for, this clay bar is for you! Adam’s Fine Grade Clay Bar removes impurities with the finest, most delicate touch and with hardly any scratching. Because it’s so fine, polishing as a next step is not strictly necessary. This is the kind of clay bar you could in theory use every time you wash your car and keep it looking brand new.