Spray Paint Trauma

[minigoth]

Help! a friend of mine used the empty side of my two-car garage to spray paint some items white - while my black on black with black tinted windows set unprotected on the other side of the garage. the result... very fine white spraypaint overspray over the ENTIRE car. I washed the car, then waxed with Glanz Wax. The car looks very clean and shiny from two feet away, but up close is still completely speckled with fine white spray paint - how can I get this off?

[holdenontoit]

with "friends" like this, who needs enemies.Go to an auto detailing place and let them give you a quote for LIGHT compounding and waxing, give the quote to your spraypainting friend and tell him to cough up the dough!

[Ryephile]

Best bet will be start from scratch and Clay Bar the vehicle. That will get rid of the fine overspray mist from your friends oopsie

[BuckeyeMCS]

Originally Posted by Ryephile

Best bet will be start from scratch and Clay Bar the vehicle. That will get rid of the fine overspray mist from your friends oopsie

I 2nd this. Body Shops use clay bars for overspray.

[minigoth]

Great - thanks for the suggestion. I have two new Zaino clay bars at home, sounds like I have a date. I suppose in the event the clay bars do not work (fingers crossed they do) that the local detail shop's compound is the next step?

[TulsaMINI]

I drove through some paint and had spatters all up the side of the car. I used enamel reducer to remove them. Wipe it on, give it a couple of seconds to soften then wipe the spots right off. No damage to the finish whatsoever.

Try this if the non-chemical methods don't work for you.

Angie

[holdenontoit]

Originally Posted by Ryephile

Best bet will be start from scratch and Clay Bar the vehicle. That will get rid of the fine overspray mist from your friends oopsie

does Holly come with the clay bar kit?

[ncdave]

The Clay Bar should work (did the same thing - self-inflicted as the mist drifted outside onto the car ), especially if your car had a coat of wax on it as the overspray is actually on the wax, not the paint. If that doesn't work then light compounding it is.


Good Luck!

[Rick-Anderson]

Kill the roomate and use his blood to clean the car. The proteins in blood work well. Just joking - I would probably do it but that is just me. Seriously, though, I had an extreme amount of overspray on the classic Mini as it sat in a bodyshop for two months. 18 hours of claybar and the paint looks new.

[minigoth]

Thank you all for responding. I took the afternoon off and spent about 5 hours with the clay and the result was great! It is all off. Washed the car - pulled it in the garage and am now ready to wax again. My black car is black again!!!

[Ryephile]

Originally Posted by holdenontoit

does Holly come with the clay bar kit?

Sorry, Holly is an expensive Option

[minimc]

Originally Posted by minigoth

Help! a friend of mine used the empty side of my two-car garage to spray paint some items white - while my black on black with black tinted windows set unprotected on the other side of the garage. the result... very fine white spraypaint overspray over the ENTIRE car. I washed the car, then waxed with Glanz Wax. The car looks very clean and shiny from two feet away, but up close is still completely speckled with fine white spray paint - how can I get this off?

Ryphile is right on.

When I saw the title of this thread I HAD to respond. In the past 3 weeks my bk on bk mcs has been dusted with white overspray TWICE! The last time being on Friday. I couldn't beleive it when I went to wash the car and saw the spots. Both times its been due to local businesses painting their buildings & various structures. My car goes in for its second scheduled maintnance interval tomorrow. After that it's going to be clay-bar-ed. Hopefully all comes out well again.

Glad to hear that yours was a happy ending.

cheers!

[olYeller]

clay bars work miracles at removing all kinds of junk. i used one for the first time about a month ago and i will never do a complete detailing without it again.

just do that once maybe twice a year and start with a nice smooth clean surface to put your favorite sealer over.:smile:

[scooterboy]

Glad you got the paint off, but I have two questions:

1) Why did you put wax on it before getting the overspray off?
2) Did you give your "friend" the kick-in-the-butt he so richly deserved?

[minigoth]

stoopidity. I was hoping the wax would help remove the overspray, clearly I was wrong. As for the friend... yeah, that's another story. Actually he offered to help clay bar/wax... no way! I would not let him touch it.stoopidity

[tattman23]

Lord knows how I ended up with white paint spatters, misty sized tiny dots, but I gotta get them out now! Hi old friends and new gurus, all is well (except for paint spatters!) at 50k miles .

Rather than start a new thread, I took 2 minutes and found this old 'un... hopefully i'm in touch with someone(s) in the know about other options if there ARE any.

I was starting up a wash, clay, Zaino process when I noticed the spatters. Is clay gonna work for me?

Gratefully, as always,
Tatt

[lotsie]

Clay may work, depends on the type of paint, and how long they have been on there. If clay/lube does not get them off, try WD 40, it won't hurt the paint surface, and may help to lift the spots.

Mark

[tattman23]

Originally Posted by lotsie

Clay may work, depends on the type of paint, and how long they have been on there. If clay/lube does not get them off, try WD 40, it won't hurt the paint surface, and may help to lift the spots

WD40? Hmmm, I'm an alumnus after all, Class of '81 from University of WD and DT (Duct Tape) U. If no one screams "halt!" then that just might be a good experiment to try on the bumper cover (where i just found more speckles #$%@@!). If it works there, i could MAYbe put it on the paint <bashful to do that, but we'll see. Thanks man,

Tatt