If you're gonna do paint correction, can you skip claying ?

[Oz_TCH]

just wondering. Thanks.

[PaulMys]

Depends on if your paint surface needs it or not.

Do the baggie test to make sure.

[irvsmith]

just wondering. Thanks.

If your paint has the above surface contamination and you don’t clay you will reduce the effectiveness and longevity of your pads while doing the correction.


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[Klasse Act]

I'd atleast do chemical decon once a year

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[FUNX650]

As to Claying...

•IMO:
-It’s far better to do it and not need it;
than it is to need it and not do it.
-(As mentioned earlier: “The Baggie Test”
determines “the need”.)


•Perhaps you’ll find the below scenario
to be, at the very least, thoughtworthy.

1.) you didn’t Clay; and, that:
2.) during your correction step(s) your
buffer and pads (unknowingly) picked-up
some contaminates; and, then:
3.) those contaminates wound-up marking
the living hell out of your paint!

Just think of the misery you’d probably
wind up putting yourself (and the paint)
through. Not worth it; amiright?


Bob

[jolo]

Not worth the risk if you are correcting anyways. Just JMHO.

[Markymapo]

I typically will clay as so not to pick up any fine “gunk” that would mess up a panel (I do clean n change pads often), just my process. Baggy testis a must do

[hoyt66]

You do not save enough time imo to even entertain NOT claying.

[yakky]

Claying with a nanoskin sponge is so fast that there is no reason to skip it.

[Mike Phillips]

No.

Allow me to clarify and be specific.

Whether you need to clay or not depends on,

The contaminant itself. There's a difference between DOT highway paint and bug poop and how tough it is and how strong of a bond it has on the paint.

The pad you're using and even the tool. There's a HUGE difference between cutting paint with a wool pad on a rotary buffer and an aggressive compound and ANY tool or product when using foam pads.

Foam pads, even foam cutting pads can simply GLIDE over some bonded contaminant and have ZERO effect.


So what I've been TYPING for at least 17 years now online is this little quote,

The most effective way to remove above surface bonded contaminants is by claying the paint - Mike Phillips


When I first started typing that the Nanoskin towels, pads and wash mitts and all the copies of their products had not been invented yet.


I can also tell you from first hand experience, if you don't clay first, and there are bonded contaminants, on dark color paints as you move a foam pad on ANY orbital polisher over the paint, in the residue you see behind the path-of-travel (of the pad over the paint), you will see what looks like Comets, that is a dot with a trail behind it. That is the contaminant and the trail is how the residue visually forms on the surface after the pad moves over the surface.

Been there, done that and seen it.


Try to find the above info anywhere else.