New Car Detailing Woes

**Nick!** · 06-14-2013, 07:00 AM

Forum noob here, however I am a hobbyist detail veteran. I have a problem I was hoping you could all help me with.

I picked up a 2013 Volvo a couple weeks back. Other than the drive home from PA to CT, its been sitting in the garage. The vehicle was sitting at the dealer lot for 6 months outside of course. During this time, it has accumulated a tremendous amount of stubborn stains and dirt on the paint. I`ve been patiently claying for 6 hours and barely finished only the hood. It literally has been taking me about 10 minutes for each 6x6 inch section.

I would post photos, however my DSLR won`t pick them up. I am getting extremely frustrated with how long this has been taking. On top of that, the claying is causing a lot of light scratching, much like a 3000 grit wetsand would leave.

I`m almost about to resort to a "regular" clay with a polish follow up (white pad and Menzerna SIP) and hope they get removed in the polishing process. I of course have some concerns with that though.

What can I do here?

**pwaug** · 06-14-2013, 07:18 AM

Probably the best thing you could do is treat it to a bath with the Value Guard decontamination system before claying Valugard - Neutralization System There is a video on their website showing the process which is nothing more than 3 washes and it would probably remove most if not all of the contamination so that you may only need to do a light claying.

**togwt** · 06-14-2013, 07:57 AM

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**Accumulator** · 06-14-2013, 11:42 AM

Nick!- Welcome to Autopia!

I too am a big advocate of the ABC. One of the nice things about it is that you can avoid marring things up as compared to aggressive claying.

**Nick!** · 06-15-2013, 05:48 AM

In one section on the roof, I tried a "normal" clay and a quick pass with the PC with white pad and super finish. Nothing doing.

**Thomas Dekany** · 06-15-2013, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Nick!

Forum noob here, however I am a hobbyist detail veteran. I have a problem I was hoping you could all help me with.

I picked up a 2013 Volvo a couple weeks back. Other than the drive home from PA to CT, its been sitting in the garage. The vehicle was sitting at the dealer lot for 6 months outside of course. During this time, it has accumulated a tremendous amount of stubborn stains and dirt on the paint. I`ve been patiently claying for 6 hours and barely finished only the hood. It literally has been taking me about 10 minutes for each 6x6 inch section.

I would post photos, however my DSLR won`t pick them up. I am getting extremely frustrated with how long this has been taking. On top of that, the claying is causing a lot of light scratching, much like a 3000 grit wetsand would leave.

I`m almost about to resort to a "regular" clay with a polish follow up (white pad and Menzerna SIP) and hope they get removed in the polishing process. I of course have some concerns with that though.

What can I do here?