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Mother's Clay Bar System

Old Oct 6, 2007 | 06:47 PM
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Mother's Clay Bar System

What are your experiences with this? is it any good?
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 10:27 PM
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What are your experiences with this? is it any good?
I have used it on all of my cars for a few years now. Works great, but it's an expensive screwup if you drop it. I use it as recommended, after washing, before polishing, glazing, waxing / sealing, ect...
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Old Oct 8, 2007 | 01:06 AM
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What do you do to your car after you use the Clay Bar system? Do you polish it with a buffer? etc?

I don't do anything "fancy" to my car normally...just a basic hand wash and wax. If I washed my car, clayed it, and waxed it with Zymol, would that be OK?
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Old Oct 8, 2007 | 10:09 AM
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works well

wash, clay, quick wash, polish, and wax

be sure to not drop the clay on the ground and store it back in a zip lock bag with some lubricant. if you have time clay the windows, grill and such also.
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Old Oct 8, 2007 | 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackLiquorish8
works well

wash, clay, quick wash, polish, and wax

be sure to not drop the clay on the ground and store it back in a zip lock bag with some lubricant. if you have time clay the windows, grill and such also.
What do you polish with? I don't have a Porter cable. Is it OK to skip the polishing step?

What lubricant do you use to store the clay with in the ziplock?

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Old Oct 8, 2007 | 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by tbone
What do you polish with? I don't have a Porter cable. Is it OK to skip the polishing step?

What lubricant do you use to store the clay with in the ziplock?

Thanks
ya its fine to skip the polish if your car doesnt need it... i would use the lube that came with the mothers kit or you can just make your own which is water + car soap. you just dont want the clay to be dry up you know what i mean?
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Old Oct 11, 2007 | 01:08 AM
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Dont use the whole bar at once use enough to get the job done. So if you drop it you can discard it and grab a new piece.
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Old Oct 13, 2007 | 01:56 PM
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Dont use the whole bar at once use enough to get the job done. So if you drop it you can discard it and grab a new piece.
Yep, I did just that with that whole bar. That totally sucked!.

I agree that the bar is excellent. I would use it on the whole car with excellent results.
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