I used the Zaino kit this weekend (clay,Z2,Z5,Z6,Z7) and am more than thrilled with the results (well, before this nor'easter at least). But...there are still small little black bumps all over the boot, and the bottom of the doors. They almost look like I drove over a wet line of paint. I tried rubbing them off with the clay - and used as much force as I could without permanently harming the paint. They won't come off. Any ideas on what to do?

Also - a bird left a present for me on a stripe, and I didn't remove soon enough. The residue is gone, but left a hazy smudge. Has anyone successfully removed this before?

--Sean

 

try tar remover for the black bumps. :smile:

 

Du Pont First Klean works well for this

 

I concur with the general thought of the posts above.

You are looking for a product with lots of solvents to disolve the tar or whatever the black stuff is. I have a product from Turtle Wax called "Bug & Tar Remover" that is great for this kind of stuff. They have been making it for years. One of my early childhood memories is a crusty bottle of this stuff on my grandfathers garage shelf (probably 25-30 years ago). Ahhhh... good times.

Probably any product that is chock full of solvents will work. This also has some abrasives in there to speed things along. You could also try a paintwork cleanser, a light compound, Scratch-X or even a cleaner wax (most waxes you can buy at Sprawl-mart... Turtle Wax and the like). I've got a sample bottle of Mother's Cleaner Wax on my shelf that I pull out for this kind of work every once in a while.

After you get the suff off, make sure to clean the area well and wax or seal your finish again. The solvents and abrasives in all of the remedies above will break whatever protective finish you have laid down and you will need to reseal.

 

I had the same problem a couple weeks ago when I clayed for the first time this season. What I did was wash the car then take some bug and tar remover to get the black specks off. They were especially bad on the boot and the lower part of the doors behind the front wheels. You will notice a lot of the specks won't come off very easy. I ended up picking them off with my finger nail using the bug and tar remover as a lube (before anyone says anything I wasn't gouging into the paint, I was guoging in the speck ).

You will have to wash again. Most bug and tar removers I've used are some sort of petroleum product and you will want to get that off. After all that I clayed and Zaino'd. Bottom line...it takes a lot of time .

 

i just clayed my sister's car this weekend and it had tar all over it. Also, she doesn't wax or even get bi-weekly washes so it's prettny bad.

Anyways, I honestly just keep going over the tar spots with the clay ad lube. I don't even use much force, just fast motions over it for maybe a minute and there are NO tar spots or stains on the car. the only black spots left are paint chips.