All I can say is. What a difference

 

Love the red. Wish my wife would authorize that.

 

Very nice!

 

Looks great! nothing like a clay bar rub to get the paint silky smooth.

 

Yah. Really is like a baby bum. And I have a one year old that i change fairly regularly so have a fairly good frame of reference.
Now for a good high gloss sealant and I should be pretty happy with the results.
There were some areas that I didn't think would rub out but clay bar really is all it's cracked up to be

 

RejeX Wax would work. Or go the nano route (only if fully paint corrected).

Looks good.

 

Fabulous!! .... but... c'mon, you know I am a downer.....

Back when these clay bars became popular, I gave them a try and was totally convinced this was the best stuff in the universe... right behind Pilsner Urquell... Then... (downer coming) I did something stupid and got a grain of something on the clay and scratched my hood!!! Like badly.

You can go ahead and say I am a dope and it wouldn't happen to you, but whatever. After feeling sick to my stomach for a few days, we had a storm and a window screen blew off a 2nd story window and landed square on my hood.... so I got a new hood!

Something to think seriously about: Clay bars are wet sanding.... very very fine abrasive, but your are wet sanding. Period. This stuff was originally invented for painters to remove over spray, not to detail cars. I use a Porter Cable random orbital, terry pad, and Meguires Ultimate Polish.... same results as clay but I feel much more confident with this than clay. See what my Boxster S looked like with mostly original paint at around 150K miles: https://goo.gl/photos/ZGT3hnmom5jQm2Lj6

Peace
Bruce in Philly

 

Very rewarding to do and look at when finished. I did this last week with a P21 treatment and then I smoked a cigar and admired the car with a glass of scotch.

 

Sorry to hijack but LexVan what is actually paint corrected and Nano?

 

Here's one of hundreds of excellent posts on the topics:

https://rennlist.com/forums/991/9334...clear-bra.html

And another:

https://rennlist.com/forums/991/9019...ery-penny.html

 

^^^ Thanks for the links!

 

clay bar is just a solid rubbing compound, rubbing and buffing has always been the answer to smooth out paint surfaces. Its just harder to handle a buffer and compound with out going thru the paint. The safer way to polish out the paint is to use a orbital buffer/waxer and use a polishing compound

 

The reason you clay the paint, is to removed any contamination prior to polishing.

 

Now complete with high gloss sealant.

 

^Guards Red is a very rewarding color.