Paint From Highway On My Truck - How To Remove?

[FitzIngarage]

I was washing the truck this afternoon and found several dozen areas where some sort of tough-as-nails white paint spattered up on some lower body areas. It might be road striping paint; we really don't know. I've tried tar remover and bug remover and nothing dents this stuff. Does anyone have a secret weapon to remove such without damaging the body paint? Thanks.

[EB_05_NISMO]

Try pming cctmobiledetailing. He details for a living and seems to know all the tricks.

[brett3116]

use a clay bar

[cctmobiledetail]

Don't use a clay bar ( clay bars are for smoothing paint or overspray removal, etc. , not paint transfer from something else, like your situation ) use laquer thinner with a clean rag , wipe until the foreign paint comes off, resoak rag as needed ,then follow with your favorite polish and wipe off.

[BLKFRONTIER]

Originally Posted by cctmobiledetail

Don't use a clay bar , use laquer thinner with a clean rag wipe until the foreign paint comes off, resoak rag as needed ,then follow with your favorite polish and wipe off. (it normally takes seconds for the thinner to work and remove the unwanted paint)

Will this work the same for yellow road paint in my wheel wells?

[nizmut]

not driving on wet paint works pretty good. All the guys that stripe our jobs use paint that dries in like 5 minutes, you have to damn near run them over to get paint transfer.

[cctmobiledetail]

Originally Posted by BLKFRONTIER

Will this work the same for yellow road paint in my wheel wells?

Yes, but know that thinner may discolor the plastic of your wheel wells, if it does , touch up the plastic in the wheel wells with Satin Black paint. Brush on with a foam brush, to not show brush marks if not taking the wheel off, or take the wheel off if wheel well is discolored and spray satin black paint to repaint the wells.

[brett3116]

Originally Posted by cctmobiledetail

Don't use a clay bar ( clay bars are for smoothing paint or overspray removal, etc. , not paint transfer from something else, like your situation ) use laquer thinner with a clean rag , wipe until the foreign paint comes off, resoak rag as needed ,then follow with your favorite polish and wipe off.

I've used a clay bar to get sap off my truck, I think small areas of paint would be just fine. Now if it's a large area of paint, then there would be easier ways.

[cctmobiledetail]

Originally Posted by brett3116

I've used a clay bar to get sap off my truck, I think small areas of paint would be just fine. Now if it's a large area of paint, then there would be easier ways.

and the easier way is with laquer thinner, I own my own mobile detailing business, hence the screen name, and have over 15 years and 4400+ vehicles detailed, so believe me when I say that Laquer thiner IS the way ! In fact with sap it'll melt away in seconds with thinner. well and you could buy some clay I suppose you use the $ 15 mothers clay ( not professional clay like the $30 a bar stuff from 3M , that I use) and Laquer thinner is about $3.00 a quart, plus thinner can be used for a myriad of stuff that needs to be removed on vehicles paint, where clays limited.