How to remove paint drops on my car ?

[Skchng]

Hi

 

Just discovered that there are some (> 20) white paint drops (1mm size) on my 2 mth old car (dark red color). I must have parked the car near some construction site.

I tried to use my fingernail to scrap off the paint unsucessfully. Can I purchase a 'cleaner' to remove the paint drops

 

Need your advise in this area.

 

Best Regards & Happy New Year to U + family

[Steelblue]

Do you have some cleaner wax , like those from soft99, can try that first as it's the least abrasive method. If not, can try claybar

[Maded]

Dude sorry about your car....

 

I'm suprised fingernail didn't work for you.. it always did for me....

erm... scratch harder?

[Lawsu]

Maybe can try bit of kareosene(wrong spelling)

 

If not mama lemon....even can remove existing sealent.

 

Worst, repaint your car.....

[Maded]

kerosene cannot lah.. strip paint how?

[Jazziegirl]

no lah! cannot use kerosene or mama lemon!

[Leonknapp]

Hi

 

Just discovered that there are some (> 20) white paint drops (1mm size) on my 2 mth old car (dark red color). I must have parked the car near some construction site.

I tried to use my fingernail to scrap off the paint unsucessfully. Can I purchase a 'cleaner' to remove the paint drops

 

Need your advise in this area.

 

Best Regards & Happy New Year to U + family

Claybar after washing ur car. will remove the paint spots for sure.

[Skchng]

Tks for everybody's help

 

The following are the advises that I have gather

 

1) Leave it (just wax over it, it might looks nice)

2) Use touchup-paint to color the droplets to the car's color

3) Use fingernail

4) Use bug and tar remover or cleaner

5) Use claybar

 

For 2 to 5--> to be follow by protective waxing.

 

* DO not use brake fluid or lacquor tinner as it will eat the

paint

 

NB: I just purchase the claybar. WIll try it this weekend.

 

Tks & Best Regards

[BMW320i]

I bought the "Tarminator" works well and I've removed spots of paint on my father's car.

 

BTW me not selling product

 

If you wanna try the tarminator, I can lend it to you. Its a spray bottle.

[Qooo]

I've also got some on my bonnet when my car was just a few months old too!

Bliff it or not, I use the amour all oil (those for dashboard and internal plastic). Just dot some on the paint dots... it can loosen the grip then followed by fingernail treatment!

Those that didn't come out with this, I use the Autoglym Intensive Tar remover.

 

Good luck!

Edited January 27, 2005 by Qooo

[BMW320i]

I tried the fingernail treatment. Highly not recommended. Will leave white marks on it that looks like scratches. careful dude.

[Silver_blade]

Should try to wash off with water. Most of the time, the paint most construction site uses is water based, unless it is used to pain metal or wood, which is oil-base.

[Qooo]

Couldn't resist the temptation! *hee*

[Apollo]

white? depends... if it is emulsion paint (water based) it should go off easily by dapping some wet tissues.

 

but if it is "lime" used for gypsum plaster, it may take a while longer, as this is endothermic as it absorb water easily.

 

cleaner's wax will do the job.

 

but if it is enamel paint (oil based), habis liaoz.

[Panda]

Hi

 

Just discovered that there are some (> 20) white paint drops (1mm size) on my 2 mth old car (dark red color). I must have parked the car near some construction site.

I tried to use my fingernail to scrap off the paint unsucessfully. Can I purchase a 'cleaner' to remove the paint drops

 

Need your advise in this area.

 

Best Regards & Happy New Year to U + family

 

Turpentine (tarpin). Organic based solvent, safe on car paint. I've used it to remove everything except body paint. Tar, emulsion, you name it. Forget about expensive tar remover products.

[Skchng]

Tks very much

I use turpentine and it works !

I did keep across a similar advice earlier (see below) and your timely reply give me the confidence to use turpentine.

 

Thanks

 

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From: DelThomas ([email protected])

Subject: Re: Help: paint problems!!

View: Complete Thread (4 articles)

Original Format

Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech

Date: 1997/06/04

 

 

Good news! I had a similar problem some years back and the painter at a

local body shop gave me this solution.

 

Just get a small can of mineral spirits or turpentine (NOT laquer

thinner!). Use a soft rag to apply it to the areas where the paint

droplets are and let it soak in for a minute or two. Then simply wipe the

softened droplets of paint off. The mineral spirits or turpentine won't

damage your catalyzed, baked on, factory paint at all, but *will* require

a re-waxing and/or re-application of paint sealant, if a sealant is in

use. Better to take this approach than to abrade away the paint spots

using sandpaper, rubbing compound, etc.

 

By the way, this same method works great if you ever have the misfortune

of living in the same neighborhood with pea-brained gang members who spray

graffiti on anything that doesn't move! As long as the original paint

finish is baked on, mineral spirits or turpentine won't damage it. If you

have any doubts, test the method on a small, less visible area of the

finish first to verify the accuracy of my method. When it happened to me,

I drove my *brand new* car under a freeway overpass that was being

spraypainted with epoxy enamel. My entire clean-up took less than 30

minutes.

 

Good luck!.

 

A word of warning! The longer you let the paint stay on the car, the

harder it will be to get off... so I recommend going at it immediately.

Once it's baked in the sun for several hours, it can be far more difficult

to remove using a solvent in this way.

 

 

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[Valentino]

Tks for everybody's help

 

The following are the advises that I have gather

 

1) Leave it (just wax over it, it might looks nice)

2) Use touchup-paint to color the droplets to the car's color Where to get touch up paint?

3) Use fingernail

4) Use bug and tar remover or cleaner

5) Use claybar

 

For 2 to 5--> to be follow by protective waxing.

 

* DO not use brake fluid or lacquor tinner as it will eat the

paint

 

NB: I just purchase the claybar. WIll try it this weekend.

 

Tks & Best Regards

[Skchng]

I saw some ( a entire rack of touchup paint) at AutoBhan last week.

Regards