{"id":31506,"date":"2020-12-15T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/?p=31506"},"modified":"2021-01-12T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T21:17:26","slug":"heavy-decon-removal-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/heavy-decon-removal-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Decon Removal Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Detailed Image Customer wrote to us and asked:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am trying to clay bar the car right now and I&#8217;m having a very hard time decontaminating the paint. I have washed the car with CarPro Reset twice. I have tried an old but unopened clay bar from a Mother&#8217;s kit and tried a NanoSkin AutoScrub Fine Grade Pad. I can not seem to get all of the contamination off the paint. No matter how hard or long I clay I still hear contamination. I plan to use CarPro Iron X soon but I will purchase a new clay product at the same time. Could you make a recommendation for a new clay device? Also, the car was made in Japan.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a few clients that worked next to a heavy metal polishing facility and their paint literally felt, and sounded, like 80 grit sandpaper. Heavy decontamination is a much different approach than standard maintenance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/kaad81fXgWY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>First, after a good shampoo soak, I would use something like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/CarPro-M53\/IronX-Iron-Remover-P600\/500-ml-S1\/\">Iron-X<\/a> to get out and iron deposits, but also to help see what you are dealing with. Remember to thoroughly rinse and cover your nose!<\/p>\n<p>Next, I would recommend just a standard clay, slightly more aggressive, bar like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/DI-Accessories-M12\/Medium-Grade-Clay-Bar-P376\/100-g-S1\/\">Medium Grade DI Clay Bar<\/a>. I normally like to use something like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/CarPro-M53\/PolyShave-Decon-Block-Mini-P2072\/\">CarPro Poly Shave<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/NanoSkin-M54\/AutoScrub-Sponge-P2271\/Medium-Grade-S2\/\">NanoSkin<\/a>, but since the contamination is so much on the surface and not just trying to pull it out of the paint pores, the rubber polymer products just can&#8217;t really grab on. The clay has a little more give and &#8220;wraps around&#8221; the particles and really helps pick them up.<\/p>\n<p>Then you are going to want to grab a rolling cart or something because you can be here a while, depending on what the makeup of the contamination is. Just take you time, one panel at a time and you can get through it.<\/p>\n<p>Just note that you will most likely cause <em>some<\/em> damage to the paint from this and will need to polish the paint after. When you FINALLY finish, make sure to protect your paint to help prevent this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy Decon Removal Tips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":33023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,28],"tags":[1474,1745,913,385,1552,2248,912,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-31506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-clay-bar","8":"category-decontamination","9":"tag-clay-bar","10":"tag-decon","11":"tag-decontamination-2","12":"tag-detailing","13":"tag-gloss-angeles","14":"tag-iron","15":"tag-iron-x","16":"tag-removal"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01878-1024x683-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kPO7-8ca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31506"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33279,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506\/revisions\/33279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}