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Originally posted by berettafan
how often do you stretch and fold the clay bar?
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berettafan, Not picking on your question just making a general comment to all of you that have never clay barred before:
This is a simple inherently obvious process once you start it.
If you've never done your paint - after doing a panel, say a door skin...look at the surface of the clay. If its truly never been done before you're going to see a brown film around the edges of the bar. Thats the contaminants you have picked up. Stretch it out a few times and refold into a nice palm-sized pad and start again. You can do several cars before you truly need to buy another clay bar....at least that's been my experience. Living in a big metro area like L.A. where there is smog and microscopic sap drops on the paint I clay my car a couple of times a year. If you do it CORRECTLY it is impossible to hurt your paint. But it does strip wax and leave it naked so good waxing thereafter is mandatory. That's great if you love to wax your car like I do. If you don't? Well, it makes the job a little longer. But waxing a freshly clayed and otherwise good paint job is an easy task.