Applied claybar today on the hood, because it was off for the engine R&R. Also did alot of other products just to see how well the end result would turn out. Came out quite nicely and the pictures don't do it any justice. The lighting was throwing the auto-focus off also. The list of products I applied today include...

1. Mother's Clay Bar
2. Mother's Showtime Cleaner (included with clay bar)
3. Mother's Carnuba Wax (included with clay bar)
4. Meguiar's 3-Step - cleaner, polish, wax
5. Turtle Wax Color cure
6. S100 Cleaner
7. S100 Paste Wax

Applied in that order also

I know, a bit overkill, but I wanted to see how well the 11 year old paint could shine.

Now, the pics...



Claybar



S100 (this stuff is a miracle)



Just two more



Last one



Thanks, sorry for the long thread

- Jack

 

lol, now put the hood back on, or set it in place for a good show of before/after.

 

HAHAHA. Looks like you took my route

I found I had to make sure I had enough of the claybar spray down, and not press too hard or I ended up with streaks of clay .

 

Oh, and by the way the Meguiars 3-step on the right is on the towel because it kept sliding down the hood
hehe

 

What are the 2 products on the left? You didn't mention them. Did you have some scratches you were trying to hid with the color cure?

 

must have been a good 3 hour project

 

hey i did that before on my whoel car took me a skant 10hours. it look nice tho can tell alot more on red the yellow
joel

 

Is it necesary to use so many products? i used the meguires claybar kit and also a meguires polish/wax in one and it came out awesome

 

i guess it depends on how bad your paint looks.
joel

 

you probably got more of the affect of using such products over and over, instead of the actual affect of each product combined.

 

i have a question about wax in general, how do you remove the white wax residue that gets left on the ends of doors or folds? it really show's a lot on my car since it is a dark color??????

 

q-tips lots of them that what i used to get in all the nooks and crannys.
joel

 

Old toothbrush works to.

 

On the far right is Black Magic "Wet Shine". I didn't use it on the hood because the S100 gives the same, if not better effect as that.

I used all these products, with the intention of each one having a purpose. Did the claybar to remove contaminants, then the 3 step for the paint cleaner and polish with wax, then color cure to bring back the color, and then S100 for the mirror shine.

I've done all these products separately several different times on the car, however the end result with all of them combined turned out slightly better.

Also, on the driver's side door there was some overspray from the previous owner. I did claybar over this (which felt like sandpaper and you could see the white specs of paint) and the claybar took it right off and smoothed it up real nice. It was definately worth it.

 

what's the claybar actually supposed to do?

 

Claybars remove contaminants from the finish. Use mothers claybar on waterspots every other day and it will significantly decrease their showing.
I use mothers clay bar but I am a Dri-Wash person myself. No white gunk in the cracks with the Dri-Wash either.

 

My car really needs some clay bar. Looks good!

 

Thanks for the comments, you need to go out and get some of this stuff, it's awesome! Bump

 

did it leave any swirls? another question for dark cars (mb) is how do you get rid of the swirls? is there a certain wax that works better?

 

mothers is a damn good product

 

There are Definately not any swirls on that hood.

Swirls on a Dark car are very hard to get rid of, however* it mostly depends on the type of towel you use to take the wax off with. I use a microfiber towel from Wal-mart that comes with like 3 blue and 3 white ones. It works real nice, especially if you wipe the wax off with a terry towel then come back with a clean microfiber towel. The S100 on my sister's miata (black) works real nice and doesn't leave streaks/swirls. Believe it or not, the Black Magic on a black car also doesn't leave swirls/streaks...if you rub hard enough - but that goes for all of them. Hope that hhelps

 

Yo,

My black beauty has been treated with Mothers clay, big difference.

And a lot cheaper than Zymols clay, with is around $80.

-C

 

GUys that have done claybar, post some pics. I'd like to see some black cars.

rotaryhardcore - do you mean Zymols is around $80?

Mothers was $14.95 at advance auto

 

Wow, you would never believe that paint was 11 years old. good job man. I think im gonna be washing my baby as soon as i get back from kdr with it. I think im gonna spend a complete day detailing it. Im gonna try the clay bar this year, because i didnt try it last year.

 

i claybarred mine. . . amazing. . . it had about a years worth of dust, metal particles (from polishing and sanding and such), and some overspray from painting some parts in the same garage. . . oops. hahaha. . . looks killer now. . . ill post pics later

paul