Video - How to use a clay bar.
 

Enjoy :tup:

Never clayed my car. Anyone recommend a cheap effective clay?

I just used the Meguiar's kit two weeks ago. $17.

Walmart.com: Meguiar's Smooth Surface Clay Kit: Automotive

This works pretty good. Used it on the Frontier and you could feel the crap coming off while you are using it.

good video gonna clay her later this week. :tup:

Cool vid, the interwebs is freakin amazing.

I use Riccardo Yellow or Blue depending on the vehicle. You can give Nanoskin Autoscrub a try too.

Anyone have an estimate on how long this will take?

I did mine pretty hastily in about 30 minutes; the car was already thoroughly cleaned & waxed the week before and got another wash just before the clay bar which I did with the car wet. I'd say give yourself an hour to be thorough; maybe longer if you have lots of bumps and stuff all over the place. Even though I did the entire car, most of the rough stuff was on the front end of the car only.

I did my car in about 45min with the Meguiars Kit.

i highly recommend against meguair's soft blue clay. it is pretty coarse and will scratch your finish. i speak from experience. it's soft in the beginning but then coarses up for some reason as you knead it. this is the only clay that i had this problem. i use it for glass these days if i have water spots.

for the z's paint i use griot's yellow clay (mud). it's super soft. use disposable gloves.

I ended up getting the Adams clay kit and a bunch of other stuff from Detailers Domain. Haven't used it yet though as it's been raining.

I'll give the Griot's clay mud a try the next time I do my car. Thanks for the heads up Kenchan.