In my never-ending quest to find the perfect combination of detailing products for my Challenger, I am always trying any new detailing product I run across that might do something better or faster than the stuff I have in my arsenal now.
As such, I recently purchased a bottle of Beyond Clay by Surf City Garage to see if was indeed all it claimed be - description on back of bottle paints a picture of a clay bar on steroids. I was quickly disappointed when I tried it using my Meguiar's DA Power System drill attachment with a red pad. So up on the top shelf it went, with the other useless stuff doomed to a future of either collecting dust or being given away to a friend willing to take it.
Fast forward to yesterday when I was doing some paint splatter removal on a friend's truck. He had run through some road stripe paint or something, and it was especially stubborn at holding on despite my best efforts using my detailer clay. I ran through all 100g of clay I had in back stock and had only removed barely half the paint splotches I needed to.
I knew buying another 100g of clay may only do part of the job ahead of me, so I had to figure another way. Light bulb! What about that SCG stuff? So I busted it out, along with my Meg's DA attachment and red pad, but this time I used a corded hand held drill capable of 2500+ rpms (instead of cordless drill used previously capable of only 1500-1800rpms).
That proved to be the ticket! I made short work of the rest of the paint splatter, and much less effort was needed using this method over the regular clay bar and QD way.
So the moral to this story is really more about using the right tools to enable the product to do its job. Am I going to stop using clay altogether now? Not a chance. It's more affordable and easier to use for large areas of paint cleaning. But if I have small, concentrated spots of contamination that the clay is having to work too hard on, this stuff will definitely get the call to come in and take over (along with the corded drill, of course).
Nuke
As such, I recently purchased a bottle of Beyond Clay by Surf City Garage to see if was indeed all it claimed be - description on back of bottle paints a picture of a clay bar on steroids. I was quickly disappointed when I tried it using my Meguiar's DA Power System drill attachment with a red pad. So up on the top shelf it went, with the other useless stuff doomed to a future of either collecting dust or being given away to a friend willing to take it.
Fast forward to yesterday when I was doing some paint splatter removal on a friend's truck. He had run through some road stripe paint or something, and it was especially stubborn at holding on despite my best efforts using my detailer clay. I ran through all 100g of clay I had in back stock and had only removed barely half the paint splotches I needed to.
I knew buying another 100g of clay may only do part of the job ahead of me, so I had to figure another way. Light bulb! What about that SCG stuff? So I busted it out, along with my Meg's DA attachment and red pad, but this time I used a corded hand held drill capable of 2500+ rpms (instead of cordless drill used previously capable of only 1500-1800rpms).
That proved to be the ticket! I made short work of the rest of the paint splatter, and much less effort was needed using this method over the regular clay bar and QD way.
So the moral to this story is really more about using the right tools to enable the product to do its job. Am I going to stop using clay altogether now? Not a chance. It's more affordable and easier to use for large areas of paint cleaning. But if I have small, concentrated spots of contamination that the clay is having to work too hard on, this stuff will definitely get the call to come in and take over (along with the corded drill, of course).
Nuke
