Mini review of new Farecla G3 Body Prep Clay Mitt

Rabidracoon28 · Feb 10, 2014

Bought this today as knew had some claying to do on a Hyundai i20.

Opened up and one side (pink) is a MF type of fabric

With the other side (black) feeling quite rubbery

Washed car 2BM, then decided to use mitt with a shampoo (G3 Detox), firstly loading up the mitt with the soapy water and applying it with the pink side.

Another dunk into the water then, flip the mitt over and use rubbery side on the paintwork.

Initially can hear the mitt rubbing over the dirt and contaminants but after about 20 seconds or so, no more noise indicating that mitt is working.

Rinse with open ended hose to leave this. (Only left hand side of bonnet done at this stage)

Onto the base of the passenger front door. Note the stains not shifted from the earlier 2BM.

After a pass with the mitt and a rinse

Bootlid before

Bootlid after

Base of drivers door, before

Base of drivers door, after

One handed video (sorry) showing ease of use

Initially was very sceptical about a clay mitt, never be as good as my BH clay but I was wrong and am now a convert. FANBLOODYTASTIC. Did like to in the past, look at the clay bar after each panel to see what had been lifted. Just got to get used to not being able to do that now.

For £12.99, get to Halfords and get one NOW!!!!

Cheers again Gleemspray for the initial heads up.

Blackmondie · Feb 10, 2014

seems like a nice product. thx for the review!

Charlie Purvey · Feb 10, 2014

Hi mate not sure if this is a silly question BUT with a traditional clay bar you would constantly fold the clay bar over on its self revealing a fresh surface to work with, how do you go about doing that with a mitt??

Rabidracoon28 · Feb 10, 2014

Just dunk it back into the soapy solution in your bucket and let witchcraft sort it out. Seriously load it back up with the soapy water and its good to go again. Very impressive piece of kit.

linuxmanju · Feb 10, 2014

Thanks for the review mate. Impressive results there :thumb:.

Kiashuma · Feb 10, 2014

Looks like it works well. Was any marring left at all?

Rabidracoon28 · Feb 10, 2014

none whatsoever, just smooth as glass paintwork

m1pui · Feb 10, 2014

Did you have to, or did you anyway, give it the window wiping job before setting it on the paint?

Rabidracoon28 · Feb 10, 2014

did try it on the window first, no problems so proceeded to the paint

bradleymarky · Feb 10, 2014

Looks brilliant for the price, took me 2 hours to clay the car yesterday.

I would be pretty scared using it on my car so may try the works vans first.

Rabidracoon28 · Feb 10, 2014

Hence why it was tried on the mother in laws first lol. I now have no hesitation at all to use it on my own car next.

diesel x · Feb 10, 2014

Did you have to break it in on the windscreen and any marring?

Paul04 · Feb 10, 2014

can you use any shampoo? or use clay lube?

Rabidracoon28 · Feb 10, 2014

Packaging says to use Farecla clay lube and nothing about shampoo. Seen a few other mitts being used with shampoo so thought would give it a whirl

Kiashuma · Feb 10, 2014

Tempted to get one, i get shopping vouchers sometimes so handy i can get one in Halfords.

saul · Feb 10, 2014

If you have a quidco account you save another 2.5%, something is better than nothing.

Venkman · Feb 10, 2014

Looks good, thanks for the review. It would be interesting to measure the dimensions (cm x cm) of the clay membrane on this mitt and compare it with similar products such as the ADS clay cloth. This way a cost per sq cm could be worked out for each as a rough guide to value. I appreciate that effectiveness/durability of the membrane is a very important factor that would require further testing.

Rabidracoon28, would you please be able to provide membrane dimensions?
Anyone, ADS clay cloth membrane dimensions?

Thanks!

dillinja999 · Feb 10, 2014

ads is about 11-12 inches square

eadand2003 · Feb 10, 2014

Anyone know how many times this can be reused? And how you would go about aftercare, could it be washed post use or just air dried etc

dillinja999 · Feb 10, 2014

i would do a smaller area at a time, like a quarter of a door before a good rinse or smaller if i was you, just to prevent inbedded sharps possibly scratching the paint

Flakey · Feb 10, 2014

Another contender to the ever growing list of clay mitts and clay towels. ADS and CG seem to be leading the pack so far but this one hits it on the head as far as the price is concerned.

dillinja999 · Feb 10, 2014

says 5 times longer than clay from the pic

dillinja999 · Feb 10, 2014

upto 40 times you can use ads cloth, this says 5 times? rubber looks alot thinner than ads too

GleemSpray · Feb 10, 2014

G3 clay mitt is approx. 13cm wide by 15cm deep ( size of "clay" area ).

When I bought mine, I did notice that the ones on display had slightly varying depths and some were about 2cm shorter top to bottom.

Naturally I picked the biggest one LOL

saul · Feb 10, 2014

Think I will invest in one. cant be that bad or go that wrong.

Venkman · Feb 10, 2014

So going on area of clay membrane alone:

Farecla £13, 13 x 15 cm = 195 sq cm = 6.67 pence per sq cm
ADS £40, 29 x 29 cm = 841 sq cm = 4.76 pence per sq cm

Rabidracoon28 · Feb 10, 2014

Get a life ;-)

Leebo310 · Feb 10, 2014

Tempted by one and results look good but have a question!
I know it says "5 times longer than clay" but how do you know when it's time to change the mitt?? Is it just literally when it stops picking up stuff??

Kimo · Feb 10, 2014

Depends what clay too :lol:

For example bilt hamber you can cut into 4, some you use as 1 etc

Be interesting to see what they base that on

mr.t · Feb 10, 2014

Interesting...
I was going to get bh clay bar but now im not sure...

Rabidracoon28 · Feb 10, 2014

Give it a try. It's very, very good. Farecla on the packaging state that it should be used with a clay lube just like a clay bar. Using it with the shampoo like I did on the earlier posted video produced brilliant glass-like results, ridding the paintwork of ALL visual contaminants. Was a lot quicker than using a clay bar as well.

mattyh2013 · Feb 10, 2014

I'm going to give it a try.
Was about to buy a new bh clay but this is worth a try.

I'll try it using onr as lube :thumb:

Yellow Dave · Feb 10, 2014

I use my CG mitt in a strong dilution of shampoo in the bucket, spread over the panel with the mf side then dipped in again before using the clay side, but I also spray the panel with clay lube as I go.

After a panel, or a heavily contaminated section I rub it with my hands in the bucket again to clean it off.

When talking about useable life, I can only think when the rubberized side starts to break down, wear out or deteriorate. No idea how long that would be as I've only used it on a couple of cars. But what I would say some of the panels were heavily tar spotted even after a few hits with Tardis, and the clay would have gone in the bin after the lower front doors. With the mitt just give it a good wash and away you go

james_death · Feb 10, 2014

Interesting stuff, mitt would be handy.

Yellow Dave · Feb 10, 2014

It's far quicker and easier to use. Not tried the cloths but everything is simple with a mitt

Mini review of new Farecla G3 Body Prep Clay Mitt

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