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looking for some help
FinancialController
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in Motoring
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
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
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Pay a valet/bodywork place to clean it off for you?0
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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.0
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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.0
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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 much0 -
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.I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
(except air quality and Medical Science
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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.You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friend's nose.0 -
I find Autoglym Tar remover to be excellent and would recommend that as one to try initially.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.Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0 -
WD40 may sound odd but will remove a lot without damage0
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