Hi guys,

I wrote an article on how to remove watermarks using clay bars. Its been raining a lot lately and I thought some of you might find this useful.

Enjoy

I think it took me a good 20 minutes. That's including snapping all the pictures.

No I didn't take any sunshots of the test area. It was in the evening and getting dark.

BTW what are you looking for with sunshots? Just the reflections of the sun or swirl marks? I know some detailers use standing lights to detect swirls.

I don't even want to know if my claying affected the paint, cause if I knew I'll go crazy like you finding the right torchlight and polisher to get rid of any defects And I know that will definitely burn a black hole in my bank account

This is a hard one to answer. I agree that the waterspots is just sitting on the protection layer of Permanon and not even reached the clear coat and paint. But the thing with claying is that the surface will always be smooth when your done hence the assumption that the coating was scrape off when claying, and maybe the clear coat or paint as well (but I don't think so, that is why you have wet sanding and polishing for that). So its hard to tell especially when you have someone like me who coats the surface 3 layers every month, I only did this 3 month straight, and must have build up a full 1cm of coating (if that is even possible).

The only way to answer your question is to measure the thickness of the surface like Larry showed in this episode before and after doing the claying. At the moment I am blind, and clueless, as to how much my claying took out the coating. All I can assume is it did and I need to coat it 3 layers and do it 5 months straight Talk about being kiasu