Fence paint on car

mindyourlanguage

hello

My neighbour decided to spray paint his fence. It was windy and its gone all over my wife car, tiny little specks everywhere:mad: .

Can this be taken off with t-cut? Or will it need a respray?

blue_haddock

If its still fairly fresh you will probably be able to remove it with a little petrol soaked into a cloth.

oldagetraveller

It's probably water based and should polish off with a bit of work. T Cut is possibly too abrasive. Pay your local motor factors a visit and they should be able to advise a suitable product e.g. G3 Liquid Compound. Or even speak nicely to a body shop for their recommendation.
It might even polish off with a conventional wax polish.
I had a white car a few years ago and did the same thing when spraying a fence. Lots of dark brown fence treatment spots all over the car! They polished off with MER without too much effort.
I doubt a respray is necessary.
I personally wouldn't risk Petrol on the paintwork.

netlang

Try a clay bar. Worked for me with the paint splashed up from yellow line painting

thescouselander

You could try using tar remover - I find Auto Glym Tar remover pretty good at removing most things. If that doesn't work I think you could be in for a hard time in getting the specks off - perhaps a machine polish at a body shop would do it.

Hintza

Reminds me of a friend who blythly painted (sprayed) their slatted fence without a care in the world, only to notice half way through the stripes on the neighbours house........ooops.

albionrovers

In spite being told not to, nail varnish remover worked a treat for me on a metallic blue BMW. The whole side had been sprayed in a straight line by a vandal.

I tried a tiny corner patch at first, in case of disaster, and there were no adverse effects to the paint work.

Try if you like, it worked for me. Loads of folk told me not to. :rolleyes:

maniac886

I would wash the car down using shampoo, then use AG Tar remover to get rid of the worst bit, shampoo the car again. If you have got rid of all of the specks then you may be ok. If not then I would clay the car(you can get a Meguirs clay and lube kit from Halfords)

Can you not have a word with your neighbour...he may offer to pay for the supplies you need?

mindyourlanguage

maniac886 wrote: »

I would wash the car down using shampoo, then use AG Tar remover to get rid of the worst bit, shampoo the car again. If you have got rid of all of the specks then you may be ok. If not then I would clay the car(you can get a Meguirs clay and lube kit from Halfords)

Can you not have a word with your neighbour...he may offer to pay for the supplies you need?

Gonna speak to him tonight when he get home, hopefully it'll all come off.

anewman

I wonder if meths might take it off? But then you would need to wax the car afterwards. Think whatever works you'd be best waxing the car anyway.

mindyourlanguage

I have bought some tar remover so I'll give it a bash and keep you posted.