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Title: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: JGM.30ED on September 18, 2010, 09:30:27 pm

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I was scared to start but did! 4 hrs of mcqiuars carefull claying , and the same time for Autoglym polish, I T-cut the alloys and then sprayed them with Autoglym alloy sealent a couple of weeks ago, happy with the results

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: keith on September 18, 2010, 10:01:09 pm

Looks good :happy2: can beat a bit claying, did my brothers car a few weeks back and the crud that came of it :happy2:.

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: swf7y on September 18, 2010, 10:42:23 pm

Great results  :happy2:
Looks fab.  :smiley:

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: monte on September 19, 2010, 10:14:25 am

Great job there mate  :congrats:  Claying really does make one hell of a difference  :happy2:

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: stealthwolf on September 19, 2010, 10:38:47 am

The first time I clayed my car (not the golf!), I needed to use both bars that came with Megs Smooth Surface kit. That's essentially four bars to do a whole car! Each was one jet black by the end!

Looking very good. Love white cars when they're clean. Look almost as awesome as black cars   :grin:
What did you use to protect the paintwork after claying and polishing?
Why T-cut the alloys?

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: JPW on September 19, 2010, 11:07:02 am

 :congrats: looking good - clayed, polished and waxed mine last w/e.

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: Kiwi on September 19, 2010, 12:08:33 pm

Very nice job, like it alot

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: JGM.30ED on September 19, 2010, 01:16:41 pm

Cheers guys, I T-cut the alloys as the brake dust was pritty bad, the T-cut helped remove it very well, I have some Mcquiars wax to seal the paint but will have to wait for my elbows to recover! winter is not here so have time for another polish and seal.

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: Slickline on September 28, 2010, 11:33:10 pm

That looks good, i've had a megs clay bar for ages but haven't had the guts to attack my paint with it yet.........must give it a go soon  :ashamed:

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: dmac1969 on September 30, 2010, 07:40:40 pm

Mmmm White Ed30 , lovely! :jumping:

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: smokeybubbles on September 30, 2010, 10:40:42 pm

never used a caly bar, but might have to looking at those results

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: monte on October 02, 2010, 12:01:30 am

Quote from: smokeybubbles on September 30, 2010, 10:40:42 pm

never used a caly bar, but might have to looking at those results

Try the Megs Clay kit  :happy2: Very good product. Highly Recommended. Link below (probably cheaper at your local motor accessory shop though)

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_253057_langId_-1_categoryId_165527

Title: Re: clay'd 4 the 1st time
Post by: JGM.30ED on October 02, 2010, 10:17:25 pm

Yip thats the very kit that I used, although I have polished again and used the wax to finish off with, very rewarding! If its your first time go for it you will find it easy enough, I got geat pointers from this forum  :happy2: and Youtube as well.