Cleaning and Detailing

This solution came with the help of my son's pal, Jerry. His father is the head detail-er at a local Chevy Store. I was using my vinegar trick on the paint. Working away on it, getting there, but ever so slowly. Jerry walks over and asks, "what am I doing". He follows by, "does it work". Oh sure was my response and I showed my first hour results. He responds by something close to, "do you want a better way to do this".
That led to Jerry driving to the Chev Store and returned with about a pint / 16 ounces in a glass jar of what Jerry said was an acid. 1) Put it on with a clean cloth. 2) rinse it off with water 3) dry the paint. As fast as you could do the three steps which in my case, an entire Ford Mustang, it was done in about thirty minutes. The water spots were gone. The name of that acid, I don't know. Possibly, this might be a pro product that a regular Auto Store does not supply. If so, I will find the name of the acid and supply it on this Board.

Clay bar works good on this

I agree, but the clay bars you get with the kits at the auto parts place are way too small and are only good for one panel if you have really contaminated paint. You can buy a large bar (about the size of a soap bar) for about $20 on eBay and it's worth every penny.



With best regards

Al
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Originally posted by alabbasi

I agree, but the clay bars you get with the kits at the auto parts place are way too small and are only good for one panel if you have really contaminated paint.

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A clay bar will last practically forever as long as you don't drop it on the ground. When it gets dirty, you simply knead it under warm to hot running water for a couple of minutes, and it will be as good as new again.

Clay bar question. Lets say you have the impossible situation of a water spotted area of one foot square. How long would it take a clay bar using auto fan to remove the water spots in that one foot by one foot area???? If you are in hard water area, and by pure chance park in an area hat irrigation systems water floats to you auto, the whole damn auto is toast with water spots. Thus the one foot square question.

I forgot to mention that the acid CAN NOT TOUCH THE GLASS. It's for painted areas only. The Pro mentioned this stressing that it can ruin glass.