Obscured view through wing mirror

Joe_Horner

If you've just got the marker to worry about now then nail polish remover (the proper acetone stuff) will shift it but DON'T get it on the plastic surround or the car paintwork.

londonTiger

londonTiger wrote: »

if it's an unpainted surface you could just sand it down

sorry, i thought it was the wing mirror housin, not the mirror itself.

Chopper_Read

londonTiger wrote: »

sorry, i thought it was the wing mirror housin, not the mirror itself.

Well people do make mistakes.:D

photome

londonTiger wrote: »

if it's an unpainted surface you could just sand it down

has to be post of the year

cwtw

Stick stuff remover from Lakeland (also great for clothes stains!)

Strider590

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Contains lighter fluid (naptha) 30 - 60% + petroleum distilates (lighter fluid) 10 - 30%. In other words, contains 40 - 90% lighter fluid.

http://www.flints.co.uk/pdffiles/label_remover.pdf

Ambersil label remover, about £6. or 150ml lighter fluid, about £1.25.

Get a tin of ligher fluid - the best sticky label solvent in the world. As recommended by Ambersil :rotfl:

Actually the active ingredient is d-limonene..... Which is quite a greasy/oily substance, the rest is largely there to make the above evaporate after use.

Joe_Horner

Strider590 wrote: »

Actually the active ingredient is d-limonene..... Which is quite a greasy/oily substance, the rest is largely there to make the above evaporate after use.

I guess you've never tried lighter fluid on sticky labels then? Trust me, it's a pretty active ingredient all by itself.

Not quite sure what d-limonene is meant to add to the party apart from a nice smell but, whatever it is, it's really not needed. For over 3x the price, I'd be expecting it to wash the rest of the car all by itself and make me a cuppa while I'm waiting for it to finish!

patman99

I think the idea regarding using a permanent marker over the top of what is already on the mirror was suggested as it reacts with the dry ink and allows you to wipe it off.
You have to do it a small bit at a time though or it will just dry and make things worse.

sparrer

Some 'interesting' suggestions, thank you.

Acetone based nail varnish remover was vile stuff, if we thought we could get away with nail varnish at school we were wrong. A bottle of it was always kept in the nurses bay, and I know what you meant by don't get it on the paintwork, it almost stripped off the skin around our nails :eek:. I don't know if they even still make it?

I don't smoke so no lighter fluid available

I think it's an industrial strength marker rather than the domestic type which washes off plastic wear.

Sticky stuff remover may have worked on the label, which I got off with WD 40 this morning, but wouldn't touch the marker.

Thanks for the advice on how to use a scraper properly, I'll remember it should I ever need it.

Thanks also for the chuckles, as I said at the beginning, there were some 'interesting' suggestions

Joe_Horner

Yes, acetone remover is still available - look for the cheap 99p stuff rather than the "better" ones which tend to use kinder alternatives.

For the record, no I don't use nail varnish but acetone is a minor ingredient in the clock cleaning solutions which I use in my work and the cheap nail stuff is about the cheapest way to buy it in small quantities

An alternative is CD or tape head cleaning fluid (isopropyl alcohol) which will also dissolve most marker inks