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Ok maybe a little exaggerated but still....
I was driving my MINI today and I was headed down the road and a SUV swooshed a plastic bag infront of me and it blew and then it was my turn and it hit the front of my car and I kept going. I could nto avoid it on the highway.
I got home and parked my car and went got the trash cans and noticed when I was walking back the front of my car had looked like dirt all over the front.
I got a closer look and AHHHHHHHHHH White Paint all over my newly installed Black Grill Trim and my hood and bonnet stripe.
What should I do to get this stuff off My car is dirty because of all the snow etc, should I wash it? Longer I wait the worse off I am or the quicker I get it off the better? Bring it to a detailer, How much with a detailer cost? Help!!!
Ok maybe a little exaggerated but still....
I was driving my MINI today and I was headed down the road and a SUV swooshed a plastic bag infront of me and it blew and then it was my turn and it hit the front of my car and I kept going. I could nto avoid it on the highway.
I got home and parked my car and went got the trash cans and noticed when I was walking back the front of my car had looked like dirt all over the front.
I got a closer look and AHHHHHHHHHH White Paint all over my newly installed Black Grill Trim and my hood and bonnet stripe.
What should I do to get this stuff off My car is dirty because of all the snow etc, should I wash it? Longer I wait the worse off I am or the quicker I get it off the better? Bring it to a detailer, How much with a detailer cost? Help!!!
Last edited by kevinminict; 07-24-2008 at 11:43 AM.
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OK everyone thanks for all your suggestions. It was freezing out I took some hot soapy water and it came off with a tiny bit of elbow grease. PHEW I thought my paint was a goner, never had this happen to me before.
Really? The plastic bag just rubbed onto the paint?
Really? The plastic bag just rubbed onto the paint?
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OUCH, Kevin! Sorry that happened to you.
Good call on the source of the problem. By the photos, I thought that it was paint, too. Did it come off of the new grill trim?
These rogue plastic bags are a real problem. They become permanent landscape features when they escape. I work for a land trust and find them in the most remote places. Old ones especially have a dusty texture to them when they are dry so I can understand the bleedover when wind-whipped against paint. Add some winter road film to start capturing particles and the patch initiates and grows. Ouch ouch ouch.
Bags found on riverbanks and floodplains have been found to harbor staph colonies and have to be handled with care. Plastics as biological substrates: didn't think that that was possible. Yikes.
Anyway, plastic bags damaged someone's treasure: we can add that argument to the debate on paper vs. plastic...
Good call on the source of the problem. By the photos, I thought that it was paint, too. Did it come off of the new grill trim?
These rogue plastic bags are a real problem. They become permanent landscape features when they escape. I work for a land trust and find them in the most remote places. Old ones especially have a dusty texture to them when they are dry so I can understand the bleedover when wind-whipped against paint. Add some winter road film to start capturing particles and the patch initiates and grows. Ouch ouch ouch.
Bags found on riverbanks and floodplains have been found to harbor staph colonies and have to be handled with care. Plastics as biological substrates: didn't think that that was possible. Yikes.
Anyway, plastic bags damaged someone's treasure: we can add that argument to the debate on paper vs. plastic...
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I don't think so
Yes it did. I'll have to wax the trim now. I'ts lightly scratched came like that anyhow. I Learn something new everyday.
Last edited by kevinminict; 01-30-2008 at 06:57 AM.