Hi guys I'm going to be buying a clay bar kit soon and just wondered what's the best one to buy? Are there difference?

Cheers

 

sonus and meguiars clay bars are good,just keep it well lubed

 

I looked into this and decided to go with the Bilt and Hammer clay bar... 200g for about £12 and you only need to use water for lube...

 

Meguiars clay bar kit is very good, comes with everything you need and its buy one get one free at Halfords..

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_165527

 

Good tip, bargain if its buy one get one free

Just checked that site and the get one free can be something different, like a litre of high glass polish or whatever, so even better if you just want the 1 clay bar.

 

iirc the megs kit at halfords is £25 but if buy 1 get one free happy days. I had good results with megs clay/lube kit , ive also got gloss it mild clay and just recieved soft n meduim bilt hamber , as said use only with water no extra lubes needed , i havent tried it yet tho and ive gone for this as the gloss it clay seems to become very sticky n falls apart quite a bit i found , still a good bar tho . If using heavy abrassive clays meduim and upwards the difference is that you can marr the paint easily and may need a good polish or even a machine polish to get rid of them

i got both BH clays delivered £23.95 200g+200g

mike

 

A guy i know used his kids moddling clay to do his car had good results with it too £2 from toymaster lol

 

a good alrounder is megs.

 

and probably marred his paintowork to fuck,great result
car clay is different from kids moddling clay,does he use head and shoulders for car shampoo aswell

 

Cant say but knowing him yes lol

 

i am using an autoglym kit atm, clay is good, but it needs to be needed very regular, otherwise it breaks up, does work well though.
i think its softer than the meg's bar.

 

i found the megs one to be too mild.using sonus ones the now and seems better,going to try bilt hamber next as it gets good reviews

 

Sonus green always works well for me

 

Ive got the same kit but its never been out of the box.

 

meguairs clay is the only brand ive used ,but i find it good

 

what do you use after claying thinking of getting a kit and doing the xr befor fordfair

 

l use poorboys carnuba polish, then either Nattys paste wax blue, or auto glym HD wax, and then some poorboys EXP sealent, if i can be bothered.

 

I bought the meg's one from halfords after it being mentioned on this thread.

WELL impressed, clayed the bonnet of my daily driver as it had got splattered with angle grinder dust when I was modifying some calipers on another car to it was in a right state.
Its really impressive how much its taken it off, should have taken some before and after pics I guess really but forgot!

Proper bargain when getting 2 for the price of one I reckon

 

You can buy megs clay bars seperate on ebay then just make your own lube up works out quite a lot cheaper

 

Cheaper than getting two packs of 2 for 25 quid, including a couple of decent cloths and speed detailer etc?

I thought that was really good value TBH when it was 2 for the price of one

 

Probaly not if its buy one get one free,i thought you must have just bought one at 25

 

when the deal ends just buy clay refill and use water and shampoo mix in a spray bottle as lube,save paying a tenner a time for quick detailer

 

Be carefull which shampoo you use i used a cheap one and it made the clay fall to pieces,i use a ph neutrol shampoo now and it works fine

 

I used about 1/6th of 1 clay to do the bonnet and thats by far the worst panel im ever likely to do TBH, I reckon half a bar would do the whole car very well, and I have 2 bars in each of the 2 packs, so enough to do about 8 cars, which will probably last me about 5 years, lol

 

cheers for all the info guys been a brill read