First of all, I spent no more than 40 minutes claybarring this car. It is about to be sold. I "cleaned" it at the local car wash.....by that I mean that I sprayed it, but the dirt was so baked onto the paint that it did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Maybe got the dust off the dirt, but not the dirt off the paint. This was a QUICK job, not going for perfection, just better than it was. Anyone see a difference?






The paint BEFORE the clay bar.....with a macro lens.....see the dirt?


Now see the same dirt disappear!

 

is that also waashed? or no? some1 got some stuff and wanna help or give me advice to get my green car cleaned up

 

Clay bars do unbelievable work. I spent a few hours on my old maxima that had 85k miles and original paint. It had the normal "sandpaper" feel to it, even after a good wash and wax. Took the claybar to it and it was like glass. Def worth the investment.

 

Give me a call if you still got my number bro. Me and my buddy have a wealth of products in a closet!

 

the paint is completely dry in the pictures. Just claybar and no washing afterwards. Might get around to waxing it before I sell, not sure if its worth the time at this point.

 

You just sprayed it off and didn't hit it with the foaming brush? I bet half that dirt would have come off with a little elbow grease. Now you just ground it into the paint. You really got to wash it good before a clay bar. Use something like dawn to strip all the old wax and nasty stuff off. Then you clay bar. Then you wax. Then you polish. Bling bling.

 

If it was a better car, maybe. Look at the macro lens pictures at the end, nothing ground into the paint there. I used a lot of the lubricant and was just sloshing around dirty, dirty, dirty water from where the clay passed. Then I just soaked it up with a towel.

Had it been a car I wanted to look like a show car, I would have taken more steps. But this car is 12 years old with original paint and is about to be sold. Not worth my time to spend a whole day on it.

 

Would have taken me 2 hours. :P

 

Spray washes are for wimps. You gotta hand wash and then clay. The reason behind this is you never got the dirt off to begin with.

Like mentioned use some dawn, then clay, then wax. Of course your before and after photos are better......you clayed the remaining dirt off.

I hear ya on it not being a show car and time however.