Quote Originally Posted by Junkman2008 View Post
If you took notes, answer me this. How do you tell if your paint needs to be clayed?



And how long it maintains that look will be directly related to how you touch the paint. There is NO protection that is scratch proof. Clear coat last a lot longer than any of these protections being offered and clear coat can be scratched so that should tell you that a coating is NOT the all to end all. I don't use any kind of coating and rely on nothing but common sense to keep from constantly having to fix my paint.
all I know is if you don't want to keep playing with your paint to keep it nice looking, clear expel the whole car and be done. I have done this for some time now, but your on track on your theory