Why you SHOULDN'T clay your car | DIY Detail  

I’ve been using the PSDT and is simply just Awesome! Soo glad I purchased this! It makes my life so much easier and happy! Thanks for making great products!

Thank you! Recently did my Z and used your advice about going slower with less pressure or no pressure on the torq buffer and the car turned out amazing with just about 9-10 hours of polishing with Sonax finishing polish… I split it into two days… car looks amazing with Evo Pure - ZERO issues applying/removing…

Great news! I've been waiting to place my order for that clay towel and other of your fine products!!! A bonus releasing this informative video as you inform me that it's time to order👍

Love this towel. Use it all the time either in the wash bucket with rinseless wash, or with iron remover. The surfaces of my vehicles are slick!

Both!! I just used the Towel today on my grandmas Buick and it turned out amazing. The last 80 degree day had to get a wash/decon/protect for her. She lives in the city and only has a car port. The fall out and contamination was really heavy and she never drives any more. The weird thing is after Iron remover/towel it made the paint bead and sheet again on one side. So it had to be coated at the dealer bc I've never protected it.

I had a mouse nibble the end of my legacy sponge. Still works fine, but o bough a second one last week, just because. lol

I bought a cheap synthetic clay mitt off Amazon, didn't realize the corners are sharp, and put at least a dozen shallow scratches all over my clearcoat! Had to wetsand to take them out! Since clay bar is vastly cheaper than a >quality< clay mitt, I personally will be sticking with clay bars for the forseeable future.

Kevin Kennedy With the clay towel, can you use it with other iron, removers.

I used a similar towel(rag company) and it marr soft paint. I used it on a black Subaru. I’m guessing the PSD is very similar. Still love this towel.

Interesting thanks for. Explaining. I’ve never used a towel.

How well would the new DIY Waterless wash work with the decontamination towel to remove embedded substances on a ceramic coated vehicle?

I just bought a bunch of products from you guys and it’s coming tomorrow 👍😁

Kevin Kennedy Wanted to as if you can use any other clay lube with your towel.

I'm never used clay bar the best way for me through years is Pre wash spray good video guys greetings from Brussels Belgium 🇧🇪

Wheels Yvan! Forgot to cover claying wheel barrels. Do you recommend using a regular clay bar for that?

I’d love to see you demo this: I’m a professional detailer and own both claybars and clay towels and in the rare occasion that I get any marring 9/10 times it’s the clay towel that does it, not the claybar. Not only that, but the clay towels don’t do as good of a job at removing heavy contaminants. Please prove me wrong. Do a 50/50 on the same car?

The only claybars I ever liked are Japanese patented gray variety. I used synthetic an was like ohhh these bars are terrible at removing grit on paint. I don’t believe if a claybar is dropped on the ground it’s no longer usable as other people make this out to be always the case. The claybar has to be sitting on that surface for a while a the weight of the bar embeds the debris. The user of the claybar has to be quick an never work on a dirty shop floor. That’s also key to keeping the shop floor regularly clean. A clay bar can scratch the paint which is true on soft painted surfaces it’s best to test a small area to not go swiping the surfaces especially an unfamiliar vehicle.

Thank you for the video. I have developed a hobby of detailing my car and wife's. I only recently heard of claying and it's sounds intimidating.

I like the look of your products but live in the Uk when are your products going to be available over here

can we apply the same logic with the clay towel that abrade the paint to remove contamination without abrading it, to also any a new technology that polishes paint without polishing agents, or any new compound that can cut paint without cutting abrasives? Thanks, great video again sir, keep up. My best regards

My PSD towel didn't come in a container when I purchased it so I'll stick to the parchment paper, folded in quarters and put in a zip lock. 😂 Thanks for the great podcast as always!

I tried to get the iron remover in a bottle but its out of stock . I got iron remover at Canadian tire. Let me know when back in stock. The silver wax company leaks out red colour from the red clay towel. I hope its not damaging it. I use rinse less in a seperate bucket to clean the red die that comes off every time.

Yyan / Nick, Can we buy this Devon towel in New Zealand? The CarCare Co in Australia do not service orders from New Zealand.

Realise this isnt an 'on PSD towel message' question ( I already have one - its awesome, buy one if you havent already) - when you are polishing ahead of ceramic coating, do you machine polish the windows? Does machine polishing cause micro marring on glass?

I gotta be honest , clay bars scare the hell out of me, especially when said it will put light marring/scratches on the paint . Guess the anxiety don’t help since I’m a novice polisher as well.

How do you clean the Decon Towel? I'm worried small particles will remain caught in it over time and accumulate.

Hi guy's, I've just bought your PSDT towel. Soaked it in rinceless wash, then used it on the windows first. Should it feel stiff when using it and it sounds noisy on plastic trims. Should it? Thanks guy's Dave

Hi Guys, I know that your Clay towel was designed to be used with your DIY products, but it can be used with any iron decon product that can be used over panels? Also, when rinseless and clay towel will be restocked?

I love how DIY Detail products are counter imtuitive some times, but that's because they actually simplify the process. I used to be afraid of rinsless, but I'm definitely trying the Rinsless Wash + Ceramic Gloss (and PSD Towel) combo. When you mentioned the panel by panel method I just thought how much faster the whole wash can be.

Very much obliged sirs. What about a clay mitt?

Can we use the clay towel to prep for coating whether its highly contaminated or not? Or is it only a for maintenance?

I suppose for heavy overspray But the psd towel hasn't led me astray thus far

What specs do you look for in a compressor? I’m currently running a 2.4 cfm 6 gal. pancake compressor and I’m wondering if this is enough for detailing applications.

If your towel doesn’t have any Abrasives how does it take off the contamination

Im not a big fan of traditional clay bars today as they are abrasive and they hang on to everything. Whilst rubber polymer clay towels and mitts dont seem to make the paint as smooth as a bar, the marring from most clays are a pita. What are your thoughts of kaopolite sf powder to make a liquid clay like the diamondite spray clay from 2006? i have 2kg of kaopolite sf powder in my garage to make a liquid clay. It may still be abrasive and marr so maybe not the way to go. I prefer removing the iron before i use a towel. Pure personal choice. In the future we need a coating that repels fallout like two magnets repelling each other so we dont get any but thats something probably decades away or never possible. Its easily removable with chemicals anyway

Why is it any different than the wash mitt? A wash mitt is mechanical cleaning, so why would this cloth be any different?

What about wrapping the towel around the sponge to keep from applying too much pressure?

Off topic but any plans for rinseless with protection added?

Might gotta try dis

Aw man, i just made an order yesterday and the clay mitt was out of stock 😢

Right on this.. just as I ordered a clay towel 😂

i live in condo. cannot wash on site. i use car wash. can i use the clay towel with rinseless wash on a dry car. must i dump towel in water first?

I used the PFDT on my parents silver car with iron remover using the method you suggest, but I couldn't get rid of those orange brake dust dots after a few passes. I just gave up and left them there. I was afraid to marr the paint and wasn't gonna have time to polish. Wish I had known it was ok to keep going until it was gone. I ceramic coated it with the 5 year. Will those orange dots damage the paint now that they've been sealed in?

I have detail chemical from a couple other companies...can I use those as a lube for the decon towel?>

Is the DIY detail decontamination towel the same as the p&s towel ? looks the same .

Is it ok to use this on a coated windshield for bugs?

Keep it coming 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

How to remove road tar? Is the PSDT works?

My towel was just in a bag, no container 😢

How do you know when the towel in broken in?

If i have dust spots after DIY 5 like water spots what do i do to get rid of these dust brown spots. My car is out in the sun every day. No garage. Its ok to clay towel it and use water removal after 3 weeks after the coating? I put the 845 insulation wax before i got an answer 😢. How can i repair the damage i did putting the wax on the roof? I was hoping it would stop the dust brown spots

is the decon towel safe to use on PPF?

I have to watched it a week ago.. I made scratch whole car by cheap clay bar then spent $600 for 2stage polish. Please don’t do your self if you are not a professional

I already have a bottle of Adams iron remover I'd like to use before I buy your product, can I still use your decon towel and do the process with Adams iron remover? Or will it mess up the towel? I wouldnt think it would but just want to clarify. thanks

Soft black paint, will it mare that's the question.

Another awesome Video guys really appreciate the wisdom, am keen to add this amazing tool to my detailing kit. just for comparative purposes how do you rate the rag company’s clay scrubber pads? cheers guys.Duncan

What if you have ceramic pads? Would that reduce or slow down contaminant build up? I moved into an apartment a few months ago and have discovered rinseless, equipment is on order (I went with P&S Absolute as it's easy to source in the UK where I'm based) looking forwarded to getting started, I'm an avid weekend warrior detailer, but I haven't washed my own car since moving in. I've been using a reasonably good valet service, but noticed some light swirl marks in my piano black trim the other day, body should be in good condition still as it's ceramic coated (for the record, I have a 2018 Golf GTI)

Incredible suds

Incredible Suds

In Thailand your clay towel gonna be 65$🤣 l would love to buy that but pretty expensive shipping cost😆💀

Decontamination towel or fine clay towel?

Yet to watch the video but clay bars have never made sense to me. They say you can clay 4 or 5 cars with a clay bar. So, you are going to drag all the debris and crap of the 3 or 4 previous cars over the current car and that's supposed to help the paintwork? Clay towels have always been superior. And now to watch the video...

The word Clay towel is very misleading. If this towel does not have any clay or chemicals to remove embedded particles, i find it hard to believe that anything is being removed because of the waffle structure. I wish another reputable car detailer would comment on its use. Sorry to be so pessimistic.

TGIF!🎉

Rinseless 4 Life!

First!!!

Rinseless.