Clutch - Ceramic Spray Sealant

ONE BOTTLE, PAINT TO BED LINER.

Clutch is a water-based ceramic spray sealant carrying 16% SiO2, which is a high enough silica load to be real protection rather than gloss that rinses off next weekend. Expect 3 to 4 months standing on its own.

It's the most versatile bottle in the lineup. Paint, trim, wheels including powder coat, sprayed-in bed liners, UTVs and side by sides, boats and jet skis, even outdoor furniture. On faded plastic trim and bed liners it does something a sealant usually doesn't: it pulls the color back and darkens the surface while it protects, so a sun-grey bed liner reads black again.

Two ways to run it. On an uncoated vehicle Clutch is your protection. On a coated one it's the topper, reloading slickness and water behavior when the coating starts feeling flat. Either way it's the same bottle.

What it isn't. Clutch is a sealant, not a detail spray and not a permanent coating. You put it on an applicator, let it set up, then buff. Being water-based makes it forgiving and easy to get right, but it doesn't bond the way a solvent-based ceramic coating does. If you want years instead of months, that's Beadlock Pro, and Clutch becomes the topper that keeps it slick between details.

16 oz. or gallon? The gallon holds the same sealant as eight 16 oz. bottles. Eight of those would run $272. At $196 the gallon works out to $24.50 per 16 oz., about 28% less. That's a smaller gap than most of the line, so the gallon is for shops running it on every car rather than a saving worth chasing at home.

How to apply it

The tool follows the surface. Smooth surfaces take an applicator. Textured and porous ones take a brush, because an applicator rides across the high spots and leaves the low ones dry.

Paint and full vehicle

1. Shake well. Water-based ceramic sprays separate at rest, so this isn't optional.
2. Mist two or three sprays of Clutch onto a clean applicator.
3. Spread it across the panel in overlapping passes.
4. Do the whole vehicle, then stop. Wait 15 to 30 minutes for it to set up.
5. Buff the residue off with a clean microfiber towel.

Plastic trim

1. Mist Clutch straight onto a clean, cool surface.
2. Let it soak in for a moment.
3. Spread it evenly with a clean applicator.
4. Buff off the residue with a clean microfiber towel.

Bed liners

1. Mist Clutch onto the liner.
2. Let it soak in.
3. Work it in and level it out with a Curveball brush. Sprayed-in liner is rough and porous, so the brush is what gets product down into the texture instead of skating over the top of it.
4. Buff off the residue with a clean microfiber towel.

Wheels

1. Start with clean, cool, dry wheels. The bond is only as good as what's underneath.
2. Spray Clutch onto all four wheels, then leave them alone.
3. Let it separate and set up on its own. Don't chase it while it's still wet.
4. Come back and level it out with a Curveball brush. The brush gets behind spokes and into the barrel where an applicator can't follow, and levels the whole face evenly in one pass.

Pro tip: the set-up time is the whole job, on paint and wheels both. Cover everything first, then come back, rather than chasing each panel or each wheel. The longer it sets inside that window, the easier it levels, and going in too early is the single most common reason something comes out streaky.

Getting it right

• Work in the shade on cool surfaces. On a hot panel it flashes before you've spread it.
• Use a clean applicator and fresh towels. A saturated applicator streaks, and there's no fixing that except doing the panel again.
• Never move a wheel applicator or brush onto paint. Whatever came off the wheel is now in it.

Pairs well with

• Autofiber Applicator Pad: what Clutch goes on for paint and smooth trim, and worth having several so you're never reusing a saturated one.
• Detail Factory Curveball: the brush for wheels and bed liners, where texture and spokes beat an applicator.
• Creature Edgeless Dual Pile Microfiber, 10pk: clean towels for the buff. This is where streaks get made or avoided.
• Shift Soap - Pure Vehicle Shampoo: the maintenance wash that keeps Clutch working instead of stripping it.
• Smooth Move - Paint Decontaminator: decon before you seal. Clutch locks in whatever is under it.
• Beadlock Pro Ceramic Paint Coating: years instead of months, with Clutch as the topper.

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