Clay polishing pads

[Hobbit]

Anyone ever try one? My car gets very contaminated - rough paint - within 12 mths because i park close to a shipyard for a few months a year.

I'm thinking of using it on my SPTA 15mm cordless. Quick and easy.

Doesn't seem to be a popular tool. I have a new clay towel but its mild, much like the blue clay scrubber i got from The Rag Company. I'm starting to think these products are too mild and a waste of time. You have to do so many passes you get swirls anyhow. The blue scrubber destroyed my trunk lid panel one time. Made for a fun polishing session however lol Very easy to polish out with a polishing pad and fine polish - with a real machine polisher. I'm sure if i was using a palm sander i would of beat the thing up.

Another fallacy - Modern Clay products like towels don't leave swirls in the paint.
Any clay will make swirls on dark soft paints and it's leaving the same swirls on white you just can't see it very easily.

 

[DUBL0WS6]

I used a clay towel and it marred the paint significantly but it was several years old. New ones might be softer.

 

[yakky]

What are you using as your paint protection? I used to need to clay twice a year but now ceramics, I do it as needed and that's not very often.

I used one of the da pads that used traditional clay in it, and it was terrible, but that was right as the new pads were coming out. Now with the nanoskin pads I can clay a whole car in 30 minutes if it's not too bad.