after claying my car. There is now a haze over the finish. I just washed it with armor all car wash soap and water. Still there. Furthermore, there are scratches all over the paint from the claybar.

How can I get the clay residue off of the car? How can I remove these scratches? I've also found 3 areas on the car, where it looks like the clay actually removed some paint? Is it possible for the claybar to remove paint? A few times during claying, the bar got "stuck" so to speak on certain areas. Cant remember where it got stuck.

Please please please help. I am feeing very sick to my stomach over this

 

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did you lube the claybar at all or did it on a dry car?

 

Describe the process you used to clay your car

 

call Sal Zaino

 

well I did lube it first. Dawn soap and water. Used a rag to lube it. Some areas did get dry though. I'm so sick over this. A girl I know stopped by in her eclipse when I was outside and I blew her off due to this crap. I bought some Meguiars Scratch X. Please please work.

 

I assume you have black? Same thing happened to me, but luckily it was on a very small spot ... I am getting it buffed out next week. The haze will temporary go away after a nice polish/wax is put on ... but that only lasts a week or two until it wears away. You may have to get it buffed out.

 

The trick to CLAYING, The paint surface has to be lubed constantly. In other words, you cannot use clay on a dry or semi-dry surface. You have to constantly lube the paint (sounds sick doesn't it?)

Next time, use soap/water and put it in a spray container 16 OZ bottle, and spray and clay at the same time, you can't go wrong.

ENSURE, once you are done claying you re-wash your car with regular car wash liquid (Zaino car wash, ect..)

The fix to this, is try and re-clay those areas, to get the streaks out. If their are scratches/swirls try a scratch remover, I would reccomend Zaino, but Meguiars makes a pretty good scratch remover.

Last?, what claybar did you use? All are pretty much the same. Was the claybar new or have you used it before? Anytime you re-use a claybar it should be re-molded. Hope thats not 2 confusing....

Good luck.

 

used meguiars scratch X on the entire car. Seemed to do the trick. I followed with Z5 and then Z2. Looks good . I would definitely try Meguiars Scratchx before getting the car buffed out. But then again, black may be a different story.

I have chrome silver by the way. This claybar crap is bull$hit. It didnt do **** for my paint except make things 20x more difficult.

 

If you all learned to read directions, you would see a difference. It's hard to screwing things up when you follow DIRECTIONS. RTFM

 

Well it's to bad we cant all be perfect like you cookie boy

 

HAHA! That will follow me forever. Good to know some people remember me.
Sorry but when people make bogus claims such as...
I have a complete right to call them out. Just because you did it wrong means that...
Give me a break....

 

bahhh... i say just use a quick detail spray next time as a lube. Works much much better.

 

Actually, I have had excellent results with the clay bar. In fact, it has been pretty much the only "miracle" type product I have ever used that has actually worked as advertised. I was in shock the first time after using it! (And this is on a silver car.)

You absolutely need to keep the area you are claying moist. You should use a spray bottle filled with water and car wash soap. Spray a small area. Then run the clay over the area back and forth 5 or 6 times while pressing down a bit. The clay should glide fairly smoothly over the paint surface without sticking. If it is sticking, then the area is too dry. If it's not doing anything at all, then the area is too wet. When doing it right, those impossible to remove grease/bug/sap/rail dust spots just vanish as you are running the clay back and forth over them with virtually no work required on your part. You should do the entire car this way - one small area at a time.

A huge caveat: The car should be washed fairly well before you use the clay bar. You don't want any gritty dirt particles getting in the clay. Make sure you constantly check the clay for any trapped particles as you are using it. If you rub the clay over your paint with some hard grit trapped in it - you will scratch up the paint!

Sounds like you may have been claying without any lubricant at all, and may have had some dirt in your clay... Unfortunately the paint is probably scratched up as a result. Not sure what you should do now...

 

I agree, he totally f*ked it up and is trying to shift the blame to the product. Thats like someone who doesnt know how to drive a manual saying the 6 speed is slow.

 

Do you mean that you used Dawn soap and water as your lubricant??? OUCH! I would count your blessings that you do not have a black Z.

 

Never us e dish soap on a car for crying out loud

 

Now you did it

 

"Jackdawfool" you are definitely a man that know the sweet science of car detailing...my question is why would anyone need to clay a brand new automobile where the finish is smooth as glass already. I always though claying was to remove embeded particles in the paint or sap which sticks to paint. My advise to anyone who want to keep there car beautiful and swirl free is to 1. never use the same rag to clean the top half of the vehicle that's already been use to clean the rims and bottom half of the vehicle (those areas are usually the dirtiest and fine particles will accumulate on your cleaning rag. It will be like cleaning your car with fine sand paper) 2. Treat your vehicles cleaning kit (towels, rags etc.) as if it were your own laundry never reuse a dirty wash mit or towel.

 

Some new cars definitely need to be clayed. Depends on how much rail dust has settled on the paint during shipping.

 

ok gotcha...I guess it all depends how smooth your car feels after being shipped