Has anyone heard this one? Clay removes swirls?!

**Jngrbrdman** · 05-18-2002, 09:23 PM

A guy on another forum that I vist says that clay removes scratches and swirls. A guy said that he tried it on his black car and noticed that nearly all the swirls were gone. Have you ever heard that one? I wasn`t aware that clay had any swirl removing capabilities. Maybe if the swirls were in the wax and the clay stripped the wax, but....... I don`t know. Shout out if this story holds water or if its just another `washing with woolite` method.:nixweiss

**2k2blackWRX** · 05-18-2002, 10:55 PM

some clays have abraisives soo...

Possibly..

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**MicroRacer** · 05-19-2002, 06:24 AM

Not to my knowlege. but I have never used the abraisive bars.

That would be sweet though..........

**forrest@mothers** · 05-19-2002, 09:58 AM

It`s an old (new?) wive`s tale.

Clay removes bonded/embedded contaminants from above the paint surface.

It has no way to "remove" a swirl mark, since a swirl is actually a minute scratch - where the paint is gone. Won`t do anything for oxidation, either.

BTW, clay wont cure AIDS, impotence, hair loss, high blood pressure or anything else that ails you - just the bonded contaminants from your paint surface. I even sat one on my checkbook, and it failed to balance it.

**rstype** · 05-19-2002, 10:51 AM

ROFLMAO.... hahahahah!

Originally posted by forrest

BTW, clay wont cure AIDS, impotence, hair loss, high blood pressure or anything else that ails you - just the bonded contaminants from your paint surface. I even sat one on my checkbook, and it failed to balance it.

**nerdhunters** · 05-19-2002, 12:31 PM

I have never seen clay remove even the slightest swirls, maybe some other clay does by Poly clay sure doesn`t.

**imported_Intel486** · 05-19-2002, 01:08 PM

Maybe the swirls the person had was in a layer of wax and the clay simply removed the wax which contained the swirls?

**We're Here** · 05-19-2002, 02:28 PM

My initial thought mirrors that of Intel486. There certainly couldn`t be any other logical explanation

**Jngrbrdman** · 05-19-2002, 02:50 PM

Originally posted by Intel486

Maybe the swirls the person had was in a layer of wax and the clay simply removed the wax which contained the swirls?

That is pretty much what I was thinking too. I just don`t see any other way that the clay removed the swirls. He says he was using the clay magic bar to do it with too.