First time I clayed anything

YNOT · Jul 20, 2009

Nothing fancy, but I wanted to see what claying would do with some basic products on the 01' I just bought. The paint is so smooth now, I couldn't believe it. It's cool to see the dirt coming off and onto the white clay bar.

-Meguiars Clay Bar
-Meguiars Deep Crystal Polish (front their basic 3 step line)
-Meguiars Deep Crystal Wax (from their basic 3 step line)

I've been out of the detailing loop so that's what I used by hand.

blueflamed03 · Jul 20, 2009

very nice! I need to do mine.

YNOT · Jul 20, 2009

blueflamed03 said:
very nice! I need to do mine.

it feels better than it looks, i'm trying to figure out what to get instead of meguiars basic line products. i want to re-polish it, i think.

blueflamed03 · Jul 21, 2009

looks like I need to take a weekend and do mine.

3blackchevys · Jul 21, 2009

YNOT said:
it feels better than it looks, i'm trying to figure out what to get instead of meguiars basic line products. i want to re-polish it, i think.

My prior choice was meguiars for everthing, i've switched to adams, poor boys and wax with migliore

YNOT · Jul 21, 2009

the guy at o'reily was talking about wizards and how it was selling like crazy.

nc6600 · Jul 21, 2009

3blackchevys said:
My prior choice was meguiars for everthing, i've switched to adams, poor boys and wax with migliore

Adam's and PB FTW! Migliore is great, but it gets expensive.

tast101 · Jul 21, 2009

Feels good. I love the feel after it's clayed. I remember I laid a towel on my hood and it slid off onto the floor after claying it.

Modded · Jul 22, 2009

tast101 said:
it slid off onto the floor after claying it.

Haha my car does that about all the time, maybe the Yukon was letting you know to clay it more!

tast101 · Jul 22, 2009

Nnaboy said:
Haha my car does that about all the time, maybe the Yukon was letting you know to clay it more!

Yea but yours is newer. I doubt the previous owners did what I did to the paint.

Modded · Jul 22, 2009

They probably didn't......when are you gonna slam the Kon on 24s Tast?

tast101 · Jul 22, 2009

Nnaboy said:
They probably didn't......when are you gonna slam the Kon on 24s Tast?

I want 24z but I really don't want to drop it, I like the stock height with the rims. Maybe sometime next year, I'm going to probably pay it off when I get my tax return, tired of having a pymt and I need to pay some bills down.

Modded · Jul 22, 2009

Good financial plans, I say alteast do the rear because when you do 24s the back will sit weird if not.

tast101 · Jul 22, 2009

Nnaboy said:
Good financial plans, I say alteast do the rear because when you do 24s the back will sit weird if not.

yea I wanted to try to get a house by the end of the year, but I'm deciding on paying stuff off before I do that, that way I can pay extra on the house to pay it off faster.

IRQVET · Oct 30, 2009

I used a clay bar once, it worked awesome the first time but after that I never got the same result as I did the first time i used it.

The car polish to get is Zymbol. Its the only wax/polish that is allowed in the Mercedes Benz dealerships. That stuff is a liquid polish, super easy to remove, and the end result is awesome.

07tahoe · Oct 30, 2009

I use Wizards products. They work great. Haven't been able to compare them to any of the brands like poorboys, but they do an awesome job and smell great.

Rollin Thunder · Oct 30, 2009

zanio or nothing.

AkursedX · Nov 7, 2009

Claybaring is the single most important step in getting a top-quality shine. It picks up all the residue that can't be washed off, but would get picked up by a polishing pad and potentially causing more scratches.

A quick tip for claying. I know post brands of claybar has some kind of fluid that they give you to spray on the surface before claying. When that stuff runs out, just add a bit of dawn in the bottle with water and you magically have more claying fluid.

I just got done claying, polishing, and waxing my Tahoe. It had 120k miles of crap built up on it and pretty much turned my clay black. It was terrible. I just did a quick single stage polish with some Meguiers polish I had lying around and then sealed it with some Meguiers gold class wax. These aren't the normal products I use, but it came out decent. The body has a ton of deep scratches and paint chips that it wasn't worth it to do a high end 2-stage polish. I normall use zymol products for that.

G35 2007 · Nov 7, 2009

Rollin Thunder said:
zanio or nothing.

+1 on zaino, best products overall!

HitandRunDriver · Nov 8, 2009

It definitely helps to use a good orbital buffer after the clay....looking at getting my porter cable HD soon :head3:

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