Removal of small rust spots?

joe2cool

Hi noticed on my car bonnet what looks like a few tiny orange rust spots? I believe the spots are referred to as 'Industrial Fallout' I was just wondering is there a safe & easy way to remove these? could a compound be used? If so how safe to the rest of paintwork?

Thx

s_b

you need to keep the car clean all the time
this fallout often comes from railway lines apparently

joe2cool

Yes believe so..........

Wig

Never heard of it, if it is rust dust on your paintwork? Wash it off?

If it is a stone chip and has rusted, scrape away, and use touch up paint.

cyclonebri1

No, it's not like that. It dosn't wash of.

It's what you would expect if you had a white car, worked for a netal foundry or metal finishing company and parked your car next to the main plant extraction system. Fallout describes it very well.

I only add this as my eldest daughter recently bought an Audi A4 something or other in white, and it showed these exact issues.
The owner hadn't even noticed, but he did work in engineering.

Took a few hours with t cut but now fine.

I'm guesing the rust stain you see, which is only just visible, is about 10 x the size of the spec of ferrous dust that caused it,;)

Wig

Best I found on the subject
http://www.clean-image.co.uk/articles/fallout.htm

The clay
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/sis.html?_nkw=3m+38070+Perfect+It+Cleaner+Clay+Car+wash+Mud

savemoney

Can you not use clay? This is clay for cars it removes containments in car bodies you need something to lubricate the clay some clays you can use water. I then use a good car polish like Auto gymn and a good car wax on top

mikey72

I just cleaned mine, and didn't know if clay would cope with that sort of mark. Oddly enough I used autoglym resin polish as well. Between them they shifted most things. Otherwise t cut, or possibly rubbing compound may shift anything else. Halfords have a good 3 for 2 at the moment.

vikingaero

I agree to try a clay bar. If you live/park near industries/railway lines/station car parks then this will happen. Only solution is regular cleaning/waxing and a paint sealant being applied far more often than for a normal car.

savemoney

Try clay bar like I said and vikingaero they are around £10

Guide on caring for car and using products

http://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/acatalog/car-care-advice.html

The pros use clay to clean a car before applying products to get a paint surface looking good if you then polish and wax this would protect the car for a while. I use on my car Bilt Hamber regular clay and authogym resin polish followed by Collinite 915 Marque D'Elegance it last 6 months. I did my car 2 months ago and ist shiny as a mirror well almost and easy to clean as its sealed

cyclonebri1

Don't you just love progress, as in the article quoted by Wig, the audi I was talking about luckily was only a year old so probably the penetration wasn't too great, but Audi and no doubt most of the others, use water based paints now.
That stuff is much more susceptible to fallout staining:mad::mad: