How often do you clean/wash/detail your bike?

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Originally Posted by marko138

What do you know. Share your thoughts.

A proper clay barring is like applying an extremely fine wet sanding to your paint. It removes crud and contaminants from the paint surface.

Strip all products off the paint using a soap like lemon dawn, then use a little bit of quick detailer as a lubricant for your clay barring... keep the clay bar lubed so it slides nicely and work around the vehicle.

If you run the back of your hand over a clay barred and non clay barred section and you can tell me it's a waste of your time and money, then you're either Helen Keller or just plain stupid.

You will notice as you go that the clay bar starts getting discolorations on it and such. That is the crap you're pulling out of the pits and craters in your paint that contaminants and acids and stuff have etched into it, and you're 'sanding' it smooth. Just keep kneading/folding the clay occasionally to keep the part of the clay touching the paint fresh.

After clay barring the paint is truly 'naked' and perfectly smooth. Now you lay down your protection. Lay down some wax, then some polish on top.

That's how you get the magazine look where the paint looks wet and you can see deep into it.