Thread: Clay Bar Pictures

I'm a Zaino freak as well, I will never use anything else on my car again and btw both of those cars look great

Originally Posted by a_v_s

when they say dish soap, they mean Dawn Dish Soap... It's gentle enough to not screw up your finish. The purpose of starting with Dawn, is to strip the old wax off the car... Car wash soap will not strip the wax off the car. Also, they don't mean to do this everytime you wash the car... Only when you are starting fresh... Because after you start fresh, you can wash the car with car wash soap, which won't strip the old wax/zaino... Then new coats of zaino will just add to the previous coats...

Yup, thats the more detailed version, and what almost all do when starting fresh each year. I just add the Zaino to the old Zaino unless there is some needed work before hand, like buffing or what not.

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Here are a few pictures of a red grand prix that I did:

Washed, nice swirls!






Notice how the car almost looks a pinkish/orange because the hood had so many swirls.

Here's the claybar before/after once I did a 2'x2' section of the roof:





Polishing hood, left side not polished, right side polished:



Door before polish:



Door after polish:



Car completely done:







The steps that I used was the following:
Wash and dry with regular car-wash soap.
claybar entire car
polish with medium grade polish (Sonus SFX-1)
polish with mild grade polish (Sonus SFX-2)
2 coats of Zaino Z2
finish with a little detail spray

It took me about 10 hours from start to finish.

Here's some pic whoring of my own car too:









Ok, I'm done now.

That red car looks just like mine, all the damn swirls

does anybody have any with white cars??? i love the info but all i see is red cars, i want to see some white ones

if any of you guys live in the tulsa oklahoma area id be more than happy to do the entire zaino process described above for only 50 dollars per grand prix. i do this process about three times every other sunday for my clients. usually charge no less than 150. lemme know. im all about makin the prixs shine.

Beautiful looking cars!! My GTP got buffed out 1 time last year (bought in may '07). I have a mother's clay bar "california gold" kit that i bought last year. I'm assuming that this will do the same job as a all other clay bar? I've never clay bar'd a car before, so i wouldn't mind getting some feedback on them. Here's a pic of my car. It has tons of swirls on her and it was repainted a few time due to wrecks (before me) and i want to get her looking the best that i can.

Jason

I love my Galaxy Sivler GP but theres no way I could ever get that deep of a shine out of it. I hate you all :P

i was wondering how the silver would look

wtf, really?

holy effin old thread
damn bio ninjad me

Am I doing it wrong?

negative...lookin good

I swear this was in new threads i dont know how i got to it

what exactly is the proper method to claybar? i know you are supposed to continuously fold it but do you wash it off before folding or what? step by step would be ballin. looking to do it when it warms up

Instructional Videos
thats a good video breakdown