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04-28-2012, 12:35 PM | #1 |
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Claying wheels?
Spent the morning washing, claying and sealing my car. Looks great but now I wonder about the wheels. I have read you can clay wheels. Has anyone ever done this? Is it worth the effort? I have no more energy left for the day other than to put the top down and go for a spin. I might trying claying the wheels next week if someone convinces me it is worth it.....sort of seems like a pain to do!
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Claying a car is cleaning the paint. Clay removes surface bonded contamination through the mechanical action of the clay bar rubbing against the vehicle surface. Detailing clay abrades the contamination, wearing it down in some cases, as a result of this mechanical action. However, detailing clay is not abrasive to the paint. The use of a soap water solution prevents the clay from marring the paint. The removed contamination sticks to the clay bar and is removed from the paint.
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I am a little obsessive, I was going to clay and then use Wheel Wax on the wheels . I dropped a jar of the stuff last year in my garage and it smelled like bananas for about a month! I swear if you chopped up some bananas and put it in the wheel wax, you could fool some of us in the South!! I also have a polymer sealant that is supposed to work on wheels. The detail shop that did my paint protection film said it works better than anything they have tried on wheels. In terms of claying, this is the first time claying my white car (got it in October) and I did pull some stuff off of it. It feels beautiful to the touch, like a brand new car! Highly recommend claying your car, really makes it pop (even a white car),
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I actually wanted to clay my wheels too but doing a not so perfect job on my car I was too tired already, spent about 12hours or so on claying, polishing, waxing etc.
I did however just applied the Nanolex Preimum alloy sealant (http://www.nanolex.de/en/nanolex-premium-alloy-sealant) Bought it a while ago but never had a chance to take off all my wheels and clean them, then apply it. Will see how it goes |
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and just like doing wax on your paint, it is only useful if you try to clean you wheels as much as possible, and see if you got some kind of paint cleaner to clean it to to allow the wax to bond to the wheels better (whether you are claying or not)
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I use that as my clay lube....I do love the smell (tangerine) as well and it is a great lube. In fact love all DoDo Juice Products. The Born to Be Mild car shampoo also super sudsy and smells great too. I only recently started to clay my cars. I always read about it but it seemed like a lot to go through but it is amazing how well it works!
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