[SpaceMonk]

Originally Posted by RKT BMR

The clay holder pad is a waste of money. Got one, tried it out, and now it sits on the shelf. In fact, pay the shipping, and you can have mine. It's using valuable shelf space, but I just can't bring myself to toss it, given what I paid for it.

Three things that aren't good about it:

• No tactile feedback... This is the biggest one. You have no idea how dirty, and whether or not your getting clean, the surface. The typical "by hand" method allows you to feel where the clay is catching, then the point at which the surface has been successfully cleaned as you go back and forth, back and forth, over the trouble spot.
• The clay easily slips out of the cup, fouling the foam pad and smearing on the paint surface. Ironically, this problem only gets worse and worse the more lubricant you use -- to try and avoid having the clay bind on the surface.
• It's wasteful. A small amount of clay, properly used, can do the entire car. I usually break off about 20-25% of the bar, use it to clay the whole car, then discard. This thing requires the entire claybar, and then it's contaminated, and should be discarded.

Send it back to Griots for a full refund. That's what I did with mine.