Sonus Green Clay Bar

solekeeper said:
another quick question, if I already have wax on a vehicle, and clay bar it with the sonus green, it won't strip it off, right guys?
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Depends on a) how healthy/tough the wax is, and b) how gently/aggressively you clay. Yeah, the *idea* behind SFX clay is that you can "clay your LSP clean" without stripping it (and many of us do that, even with more aggressive clays), but there are a whole lotta variables so YMMV.
 
Accumulator said:
Depends on a) how healthy/tough the wax is, and b) how gently/aggressively you clay. Yeah, the *idea* behind SFX clay is that you can "clay your LSP clean" without stripping it (and many of us do that, even with more aggressive clays), but there are a whole lotta variables so YMMV.
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Yea, very true. Hm, it could possibly strip it. I waxed about 4 months ago and there is some light debris in my paint. I just want to remove the debris.

I'm going to re-coat with wax again after the clay, but just didn't want to have to polish again.
 
solekeeper said:
don't know much about chemical cleaners, care to explain the pro's/cons of that vs clay barring?
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It's simply chemical vs. mechanical approaches to the same thing.



Chemicals pretty much eliminate the chance of marring whereas there's *always* a risk of that with clay just because of what you're doing- namely rubbing something against the paint..oops, the clay is supposed to be gliding along on a film of lube and not actually in contact with the paint..but that's not always how it goes in real life ;)



If something's really stuck to the paint, then the way clay bumps-and-shears can be *very* effective. Maybe the chemical won't loosen the bond well enough to "wash" that something off, maybe it will :nixweiss



Chemicals can clean pores/micro-fissures/etc. in the paint better than clay can because the chemicals can get down into those areas (whereas the clay glides along across them).



Eh, after four months (this time of year) I'd plan on doing *something* besides just clay-and-wax anyhow, even if it's just a quickie with some AIO or somesuch.
 
Clay should work fine for you, just be sure and keep her lubed up real nice.



Also, for anyone's input, ONR performs terribly for me as clay lube at the recommended dilution. I use it at QD dilution or even stronger if I need to for claying and it works much much better. I keep it real, real, wet when I'm claying and can easily use 32 oz. on a vehicle.

Just one anecdote in the sea of information known as the internet.
 
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