Welcome back to Detail Garage.
Today we're going to show you how to use the Chemical Guys Heavy Duty Clay Bar.
The clay bar is a detailer's secret to restoring a smooth as glass feel to any exterior surface
on your vehicle.
As you can hear this vehicle is extremely contaminated.
It's full of dirt, debris and pollution that is stuck in the pores of the paintwork.
The only way to take that out safely without causing any damage is using a clay bar.
The Heavy Clay Bar is extremely sticky.
This is the most hard core clay bar made by Chemical Guys and it is going to pull out
intense debris, contamination and even oxidation that builds up on the surface of the paint finish.
To get started with the detail I need to wash off any loose debris and dirt on the surface
so I'll use EcoSmart Waterless Wash to remove any of that grime without creating any additional
swirls or scratches.
When I use the Heavy Duty Clay Bar I need to use a lubricant to help glide it across
the surface so I'm going to use the Clay Luber from Chemical Guys to help me glide the clay
bar and remove any stuck on contamination.
Finally I'm going to use the TORQ 10FX and V36 Cutting Polish to restore the gloss and
shine and remove any swirls, scratches and wash marring that are all over the trunk of
this Mercedes.
Looking at the rear end of this Mercedes Benz we see there is tons of dirt and grime.
The car has seen much better days and the paint is pretty much trashed which is why
it needs polishing.
Like I said it is extremely contaminated so that's why we need to go through all these
steps to prep the paintwork.
If we don't take out that rough feeling it is going to clog up our buffing pad and we're
to cause additional scratches with the machine polisher and we're just not going to get good results.
You need to do all the prep work before you get involved with a full blown detail.
To get started I have my EcoSmart solution ready to go.
I'm just going to spray down the lid of the trunk.
There is heavy dirt here where the license plate used to be.
We've already washed the rest of the car so I'm only concerned with the trunk right now.
The trick to using EcoSmart is you need to wipe the product in one direction.
If I were to just buff back and forth right now I would be grinding all this dirt and
filth into the paintwork which is what sandpaper is.
I wipe in one way to pick it up off of the vehicle and as I wipe I roll the towel up
so that I'm not wiping with the same leading edge as I go.
That's how we use a waterless wash without scratching any paintwork.
Once the towel is totally saturated I use the four fold method to flip to a clean side
and continue cleaning the car without installing any scratches.
Extremely rough feel.
The Heavy Duty Clay Bar comes in a 100 gram block and in two pieces.
You can see they are individually wrapped.
All you need is one piece at a time.
You don't need to use both pieces at once.
I'm going to take this piece and break it.
I'll break off about a third of this piece and use the larger piece when I detail the car.
This is all I need to get started.
I simply take the clay bar and mold it into a flat disc shaped paddy.
This quantity is the perfect amount and this helps protect me and my investment in tools.
So if you ever drop a piece of clay on the ground, it is the same thing as dropping a
piece of gum, you can't use it again you have to throw it away.
It'll pick up any grit and pieces of dirt from the ground and you will have sandpaper.
So you can't use that piece anymore.
I have a little disc shaped paddy and I'll take my Clay Luber .
I'm going to start on this half of the trunk.
So I'll spray the lubricant on the surface and then scrub with the clay bar very vigorously
putting a good amount of pressure down on the paintwork.
You can hear the contamination being pulled off it'll start off loud and then it will
get quieter as I go.
That means we're pulling off all the contamination that is stuck on the surface of the paintwork.
We're restoring a smooth as glass feel to this surface.
Checking our results so far on the trunk.
Now just using the Clay Bar we've restored a lot of gloss because now there is no more
contamination blocking the reflection.
Now you can see the true extent of all these scratches, swirls and marring that are all
over the trunk lid.
But the surface is as smooth as glass.
We've taken away all that heavy contamination.
Now we're going to follow up with a polish using our TORQ 10FX and V36 Optical Grade
Cutting Polish.
I've chosen the Green Pad, in my experience this is a good combination to use on early
2000's Mercedes paint.
I'm going to try this out for my test spot and if this combination works I'll continue
to use it on the rest of the car.
If I need more aggressive combination I'll try using an Orange Pad or even a cutting
compound or microfiber pad.
So I'll just do half of the trunk lid and I'll start with this half of the trunk.
Spreading out the polish I'll use speed setting one to spread it out over the area.
Then speed setting six with moderate pressure on the machine while working with a fifty
fifty overlap going from left to right also up and down until the polish is clear.
That's when I know its done its job.
I've finished my polishing pass.
The polish has broken down and it's looking nice and clear.
I'll get a fresh Workhorse Microfiber Towel to buff off any residue.
Just with one pass I can see we have reversed a lot of the ravages of time.
We've restored a lot of gloss and shine while taking out a lot of scratches, oxidation and
intense water spots.
There are still some deep defects.
This car car has obviously been abused but we can't get 100 % paint correction on a vehicle
like this, it's just not possible without repainting the vehicle.
So now you see how easy it is to use the Black Clay Bar during your regular detail to take
off heavy contamination.
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You've got a nice car lets keep it clean with Chemical Guys.