Auto Detailing Clay: How to Use a Clay Bar

Back in the day, removing embedded contaminants like bug guts, bird shit, tree sap, and road grime from a car’s exterior meant throwing a splash of turpentine on a shop rag, and hoping for the best. If your toil paid-off, you were left with a relatively clean automobile, and a shit-ton of spider web surface scratches to go with it. Since automotive detailing clay bars, towels, and mitts were still decades away from being invented, removing paint impurities was a risky endeavor back in ye olden times. Flip forward five decades or more, and detailing clay is everywhere. Yet despite its commonality, there’s still a lot of confusion surrounding automotive clay. Here at AvalonKing we feel that it’s high time that someone set the record straight about automotive clay, and explain what it is, how it works, all that it
Back in the day, removing embedded contaminants like bug guts, bird shit, tree sap, and road grime from a car’s exterior meant throwing a splash