I live in SoCal and currently have two brand new cars I want to care for properly.
I always avoided the car washes and even the detailing places. I preferred driving dirty than taking it to those places.
When time permitted, I washed myself with the two buckets method and sometimes even clayed...
Gents,
A couple of days ago, I washed my car (which I had washed a week prior and just got dusty from a couple of drives) with a foam gun, rinsed it and proceeded to clay it.
Now I have marks all over the car.
Yes I used plenty of lubricant. No, did not drop the clay.
Here is what I did. I am...