looking for some help

FinancialController

Last month my youngest daughter was visiting friends and had borrowed my car. The friends were in Leeds and on her way home to Scotland she stopped for fuel and used the car wash. She paid cash for the fuel and the token for the car wash and then used the car wash and drove home. She parked the car in my garage and it has been there ever since. as it was dark when she parked it she had not noticed a plague of black marks caused by the car wash.

The marks do come off and appear to be rubber residue but it's very hard work and slow to shift them and I'm physically struggling to do this as a result of arthritis.

Can anyone offer any advice on products that may ease this process and the car has metallic paint (if indeed that makes any difference).

Any help at all would be appreciated

spira9

Pay a valet/bodywork place to clean it off for you?

Mankysteve

Try some Tar remover. Also clay bar but have a good read up on how to use a clay bars as while there brilliant at removing paint containments they can damage paintwork when not used properly.

FinancialController

Would that not be really expensive though? If they do it by hand it would still take someone a long time. If i could manage to do it without a lot of cost that would be much better.

FinancialController

Mankysteve wrote: »

Try some Tar remover. Also clay bar but have a good read up on how to use a clay bars as while there brilliant at removing paint containments they can damage paintwork when not used properly.

thanks very much

facade

Can't you get your youngest daughter to polish them off as she put them on in the first place?
They should come off with a slightly abrasive polish like autoglym.

Rain_Shadow

facade wrote: »

Can't you get your youngest daughter to polish them off as she put them on in the first place?
They should come off with a slightly abrasive polish like autoglym.

That's definitely where I'd start.

jimjames

Mankysteve wrote: »

Try some Tar remover. Also clay bar but have a good read up on how to use a clay bars as while there brilliant at removing paint containments they can damage paintwork when not used properly.

I find Autoglym Tar remover to be excellent and would recommend that as one to try initially.

loskie

WD40 may sound odd but will remove a lot without damage