Friends can someone tell me how much clay would be required for doing up a car? Yesterday I detailed one door of my car. Claying it yieleded a lot of contaminants but I'm guessing by folding the clay over and and over I can use it on 3 doors at the max 4. This was with perhaps 30gm of clay bar.
Currently I'm carrying out an experiment on my car where I've marked out each door for different combinations of sealants/wax/sealant+wax. The door I did yesterday was with my recently bought collinite from Bringing best. They are very customer oriented which I liked. Plus very neatly packed.
According to the topic posted out here by Mr. Nirmal regarding use of collinite, it said it would be best to get collinite into a squeeze bottle from autogeek. Since I don't have anyone to bring such stuff for me, I decided to improvise. After a lot of effort and time managed to find an effective combination that worked. Used an empty lotion bottle from body shop and a fevicol bottles squeeze cap. And these bottles are made of very good quality plastic and even on immersing in hot water did not change shape.
Currently its a work in progress as I get time I'm doing each door. The current list of products being used are :
1. Collinite
2. Wolfgang Deep gloss paint sealant.
3. Blackfire sealant. (Ordered)
4. Meguiars clay kit
5. Motomax 2k rubbing compound.
6. ONR W&W
7. JOPASU magic wipes
8. Meguiars supreme shine mf towel
9. Pinnacle foam pad
10. Meguiars foam pads
11. Eurow towel (yet to try)
All this is being done by hand with the help of regular foam pads although I'd have liked to have the hand cutting pads from autogeek just to give a bit more bit to the compounding. This can never compare to the quality of machine polishing but currently I don't have the budget to buy the DA but some fine day it might be an impulsive buy
I've a lot of combinations planned but this takes a lot of time compared to applying only 1 product at a time. This door itself took me about an hour to complete. The aim of all these experimenting is to find out the best product suited for my car in the current weather conditions.
So here are some pics from yesterday's work along with short descriptions. Would appreciate feedback and advise regarding how to better my process and even reduce time taken.
1. Initial condition of the car.
The car hadn't been detailed with any sort of clay bar for its entire life of two years in fact it never went to a detailing shop. So I expected the surface to have contamination and was secretly hoping for lots of it to be picked up by the clay so I could verify myself that the smooth clay bar is effective.
2. Claying with Meguiars smooth clay kit + Meguiars quik detailer as clay lube + Meguiars supreme shine towel to clean the excess lube from surface
The contaminants picked up by the clay from just a single door.
The towel being used to clean the surface after claying. Very effective.
Surface was left very smooth after claying although I feel it would be even smoother if done with an aggressive clay. Here I'd like some advice too from the experts.
3. Compounding with motomax 2k rubbing compound and meguiars foam pad.
I applied the compound by hand all over the door as shown in a video on the motomax website. Then used the foam pad to do section passes in up down and sideways motion for 5 to 6 times just for my satisfaction although I feel this will only work with machine.
Buffed off with a jopasu magic wipe.
4. Gave the surface a clean with onr blue one. Just to remove some dirt. But should I've done this in the middle of the process? Since I don't even have a polish with me. Please advise.
5. Waxing with collinite 845 plus pinnacle foam pad plus jopasu magic wipe
I found the pinnacle foam pad to be better than meguiars because of its size and thus being easier to maneuver. But the price is 3 times that of meguiars so I'm keeping this single pad just for wax applications.
Due to the light color of my car I knew I couldn't expect mirror like reflections but what did improve with collinite in a single coat is how the finger just glided over and it felt very slick to touch. Gave a second coat too about 2 hours later as I had to go off for some work in between. This slick nature I feel Is what is going to let the water bead and also very easy to clean dust off with a simple wipe.
All in all, what I realised is car detailing is a much more fun process than doing a bike as the area covered is larger and the results are more prominent. But I've a lot of learning to do in this regard as I've just started.
I wanted to check the beading today but did not get time. Will try out tomorrow.
My clay stock is running short and I soon may have to turn to notorious for his OEM bars. Notorious sir can you pm me the details how to go about ordering your bars plus the prices.
Feedbacks are welcome
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Some after shots.