Mothers Clay Bar Vs Meguiars Clay Bar

[Ng Luder]

heres another review from what i expereinced this past weekend. ive been a loyal fan of Meguiars (still am) for a long time now and have used their clay bar for roughly over 2 years or so. I bought the mothers clay bar to see how it competes since theres another review saying the mothers was better for them. so here goes...

note:
i used the mothers clay bar on the whole car. took this experience in comparison to all the other times i used my meguiars bar in the past. i did not do half car meguiars, half mothers to compare.


so after i did my usual washing with gold class form meguiars, i dried like i normally did with my abosrber and touched up with my MF towel. now its nice and ready to be clayed after about 5 months since its last clay.

at first the QD that came with the clay smelled ok. it was a bit to minty smelling for my taste. it did its job perfectly well in terms of lubricating and getting contaminants off.

the clay bar itself was kind of a disappointment. first compared the Megs, its waaaay smaller. texture is a bit too rubbery which makes it incredibly hard to kned. Megs was softer and bigger. but i think the worst part of the clay was how effectively it does its job. i literally had to do a second pass of the clay on a panel the first time i used it. when i glided the clay, it just didnt pic k up as much contaminants as it would have with Megs. so on the second try, i had to not only do it again, but press a bit hard to really reach my satisfied result. that clay just wasnt good in terms of leaving ur surface truely clean and slick compared to the Megs clay.

another related issue is that the size and amount of use u can get per package of clay bar kits for mothers is very small compared to the megs. the bottle of QD sprays alot more compared to the MEgs QD bottle (which i love) so it runs out quicker and with their smaller clay that can only do about 3 average cars, it really makes me reconsider its price to the number of use ratio.

one good thing that was very obvious for the mothers clay was the ease of use of the clay bar. since its more rubbery, it practically NEVER smudges no matter how hard u press or hit that piece of clay on the paint while the meguiars was alot easier to smudge where u would have to buff it off. but this comes to the sacrifice of having the clay bar not clean as well as the meguiars too.

so over all i must say i was disappointed with the Mothers clay bar kit. mostly due to the fact that their clay just didnt clean as well as the MEgs. further more, u get less uses out of their whole clay package compared to Megs. but their QD compared to the Megs seemed to clean a bit better by itself, though it was a bit harder to wipe off also with any kind of towel.

so for me, the winner is Meguiars Clay Bar over the Mothers. MEguiars work great, smell WONDERFUL, and get lots of uses out of each kit. plus the QD is really a gem if u use carnuba waxes for toppers.

so theres another review for ya, hope it helps

[BradE]

You are one of the only people I have heard of that likes the Meguiars clay. Most people here who have tried it hated it. The clay broke down quickly, and they had streaks and smearing on the surface. Maybe they finally fixed the problems with their clay.

[Andre']

I dont like the Meguiar's clay at all , it's much to soft. I'm a big fan of 3M's clay.

Skill and technique mater much more than the products one uses.

[PrinzII]

Personally, the Mother's did not do that bad of a job for both of the vehicles I used it on. However, I agree that it takes herculean strength to knead that clay into a workable shape.
I loved the kneadability of the Meguiar's but the problem came with the residue it tended to leave on the car. I had to go over the residue with the clay again and/or wash the car a second time to get any residue off.

Eventually, I will be switching clay to Pinnacle.

[PhilStatic]

I thought all the clay was the same due to a patent? Either way I like Clay Magic I've never had any problems and it's like 6 - 7 bucks cheaper around here.

[toyotaguy]

mothers has a cinnamon smelling showtime qd...i love that stuff while claying...

mothers clay breaks down more quickly for me, but the megs stuff seems to take longer to remove the same defects, the blue one compared to the mothers yellow

the megs quick clay white stuff is JUNK IMO

for over the counter stuff, the mothers is pretty good, but still a second to the claymagic....both in price and in quality

[artikxscout]

i will be doing a review of the ebay clay before vs mothers. with onr as my qd

[sneek]

I hate mothers clay. Their clay kit, probably stopped me from trying anymore of their products. I agree with most of you about the Meguiar's clay. It is very good, but it breaks down/up more than the mother's.

[BlueLibby04]

Ive never had a problem with Mother OTC clay or MEGs smooth surface clay kit. I just bought MEGs kit the other day and used it. Wonder stuff I must say..



The kit came with two 50 gram bars, some cleaners wax, a MF, and of course a bottle of QD.

My brother has used their quik clay kit(the older kit) and didnt seem to have a problem with it.

[Monte78Carlo2k1]

I had the Megs. Quick Clay and I didnt have a one problem with it. But now I have switched to claymagic.