Do not use clay bar

[Caman96]

there's ultra fine polishes out there where you run over an entire vehicle with a foam pad

This Coppertone is the ultra fine polish?

 

[xXxPARAGONxXx]

Clay barring is a mainstay of my detailing regimen. Never had a problem with it. Would not recommend "aggressive" clay unless you know what you're doing. Most cars if maintained properly just need a "mild" clay to remove contaminants.

 

[Orpedcrow]

This Coppertone is the ultra fine polish?

With built in uv protection

 

[kennythewelder]

Clay barring is a mainstay of my detailing regimen. Never had a problem with it. Would not recommend "aggressive" clay unless you know what you're doing. Most cars if maintained properly just need a "mild" clay to remove contaminants.

X-2. If you get the mild, or fine, clay bar, you shouldn't have an issue. All you want to do, is remove the contaminates from the surface of the clear coat, not the clear coat, itself. Partials get lodged in the surface of the clear coat, and are hard to remove, with just regular washing. Waxing only seals in these particles. They need to be removed before waxing, and even more so, when doing a ceramic coating.

 

[BNielsen]

The paint on both of my trucks is a solid 7.5/10 as long as you don't look at the roof or the hoods too close.
Trying to work out a repaint for em both but that's not exactly a cheap process.

 

[PlayingWithTBI]

MAACO is running a sale for under $900 on a single stage job I remember when they were $39.95

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Yeah... there's a few of us on here who remember when stuff was cheap....
And then some of our membership is younger than their trucks!

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

MAACO is running a sale for under $900 on a single stage job I remember when they were $39.95

The collision repair shop that worked on the Burb, when we picked it up, I asked the service writer about the bad paint on Rawhide. He said, to do it properly, would be $2000. I said, nah, I have other things to spend that kinda $$ on...

 

[DerekTheGreat]

Seems the horizontal surfaces always shed their clearcoat first. Sun and large surface areas that tend expand and contract more. My brother and sis-in-law have 04 and 05 chevy's both in dark green metallic and both shedding their clearcoat on the hoods and roofs. I doubt either has ever seen a clay bar.

It's the UV exposure which kills paint. Clear coat's biggest job is to absorb it. Once that's gone, the rest of the paint system goes in pretty short order as ecoat isn't UV stable at all. It begins to chalk from the exposure which bucks the primer and base coat layers off. In the early 90's/late 80's GM thought they could get away without using primer sealer on some of their basecoats, namely white. The lack of UV shielding is what caused all of those paint failures.

 

[PlayingWithTBI]

He said, to do it properly, would be $2000

For a complete paint job? Was that a single stage job or base coat/clear coat?