Bad Marring from Clay Mitt

[Rsurfer]

Was it a fine, med or course mitt?

 

[shadwell]

I will give this a try next time, your theory makes the most sense to me though so I will definitely wash the car with a true wash mitt and dry before I switch to the mitt.

Thank you for your advice!

If the car is under cover and or its not very sunny, no need to dry the car after washing and rinsing thoroughly... your about to cover it in a shampoo / lubricant anyway...
clay then either rinse and dry or dry straight away if you are solo panel by panel etc.. one less step..

 

[fightnews]

I'm assuming you broke the mitt in properly on glass first? If not, the marring can be very bad.

Regardless, we've been using synthetic clay (mitts & towels) for a couple of years now, and in the majority of situations they leave significant marring. This is of no concern to us as we only use them when prepping for paint correction work. We have found that the marring is removed easily, even with just a light polish like M205 on a polishing pad.

Clay mitts, towels, and pads save a considerable amount of time, but for the reasons mentioned, I would not recommend using them for general maintenance if you're only planning to apply protection afterwards, or just an AIO. If you keep up with your vehicle, you should be able to clay the car with traditional clay in no time anyway.

this is why i backed out of the nanoskin mitt. marring, and the fact that i can clay my already clean car in ten minutes with poly clay. i really would rather not marr up the paint whether im doing a correction or not its working backwards. someone needs to invent synthetic clay that wont marr, i can only imagine the disaster one of these clay pads for the da can leave

 

[fightnews]

The mitt was properly broken in and used on a few vehicles before these jobs.

Jobs were both Subaru paint, I guess I should expect more than usual since they have some super soft paint.

I wiped down the panel with the non-rubber side first then flipped it over to rubber side.

let me ask you this, are you applying pressure with the synthetic clay? i've read you're not supposed to use any pressure with clay

 

[tpr1634]

I use the fine nanoskin on my black 150 with soap and ONR no issues.