I need any help or suggestions on what I should clean my car with. I have this sticky stuff on my car. You can't see it, you can only feel it when you lightly drag your hand across the car. If you take a rag to it, the rag snags on these tiny particles and leaves behind little portions of the rag.

It does come off if you try and scratch it off with your nail, but I don't have the time to do that. It seems like very tiny seeds from a tree or something....but my car is garaged most of the day...so I don't understand where it is coming from or how it got on my car.

Power spraying doesn't work, and I waxed the car with a power buffer and some came off but not all.

How do I remove this stuff from my car without scratching the clear coat. I am at a total loss.

I need help on this. Again you can't see the tiny sticky particles. you can only feel them with your hand.

Please help.

 

Go to your local auto parts store and pick up a clay bar. Wash the car first with Dawn. Put some car wash soap in a spray bottle and use it as a lubricant as you slide the clay bar over the sticky surfaces. Keep folding the clay bar so you get a clean surface after every square foot section. If that doesn't work a product like Klasse All-In-One or some other type of cleaner polish should remove the sticky residue.

 

Thank you very much.

I heard a clay bar tends to dull the paint on a TB evo.....is that true???

 

Sounds like some VHT from the drap strip. Really sticky stuff...I would use some acetone or something like that to cut through. Thinner works as well. Goo gone is your safest bet.

 

Wash the car with Dawn?! Isn't dishwashing detergent too harsh for the paint?

 

haven't been to the drag stip, don't park under trees and is mainly garaged.....that is why I am so confused.

It's so annoying too. THe spots are no bigger than the end of a piece of hair. but it is all over the hood and the roof, and the tops of the doors.

I need to find something hard enough to remove the spots yet soft enough not to scrath the clearcoat.

 

have you ever tried spray wax?? or some quick detail by Meguiars?? if not clay bar, my buddy clay bar'd mine and i had a black EVO 8, WOW is all i have to say B-E-A- utiful

Try the quick detail or the spray Wax first

 

clay bar is the easiest and BEST solution :-)


Tj

 

Clay bars will not dull the paint at all if either quick detailer or car wash is used as a lubricant and the clay is folded often. If the clay picks up grains of dirt and isn't folded then it will scratch the paint.

Dawn is OK to use as a car wash occasionally. It is suggested not to use all the time as it strips any wax from the car and can be harsh on the plastics. Dawn has ethanol in it, so it is a little more aggresive compared to a car wash concentrate. A car should always be waxed after Dawn is used to clean it.

 

I have found WD-40 and a soft cloth works great for removing a lot of things.

 

Thank you for all of your suggestions. I will either try the claybar....or I have also heard rain-x works well on sticker removal and bug and tar. You just have to wash it immediately after.

Thanks for your help.

 

I would use the clay bar first. If not, wax and grease remover that you can get at a paint store;or grease/tar remover; or mineral spirits/paint thinner (not lacquer thinner) from Wal Mart. After the clay bar, all of the above are very similar and are similar to goo gone less maybe the smell.

 

Mothers has a kit with everything you need.

 

can these claybars be picked up at any walmart.....or does it have to be an auto parts store ....i.e pep-boys/napa.....etc??


Thanks for everyones help.

 

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