so i am washing my car today, first time in 2 months and,... i think i found specs of rust on my doors and trunk. they are very small , probably less than 1mm accross.

the weird thing is that i see some specs on the sideskirts which are made of plastic.

i tried buffing it using different cleaners, buff out and its extremely difficult, rubbing eventually gets most of it off but one little spec remains

i cant be certain that its rust but it sure looks like it, here is a pic

anyone else experiencing this?

perhaps its something else?

 

I doubt that is rust. Since you see it on your side skirts..

wm

 

I get a speck of rust but not as bad as yours. Should be cover By warrenty.

 

hi!i know what your problem is i just got finished removing my brake dust off my car that was on it for over a year. go to autozone and buy a clay bar kit that comes with a spray cleaner like mothers wash the car and dry then spray a small area with the spray and then take your clay bar and run over the area that you sprayed. you might have to do it a couple of times but it will go away. the rust on the plastic will come off pretty easy. then make sure to wax the car and keep up on the wax every other month or so that will keep the brake dust from sticking on the car. If not you will spend a day and a half rubbing your arm off. I hope this helps you out and everyone who thinks there car is rusting all ready.

 

so its brake dust that burned itself into the paint or something to that effect?

how could it have gotten on my trunk?

 

+1 for REXNEFX
Get a claybar with lube spray and some elbow grease will take care of that in a jiffy.

 

REXNEFX is right on. This is what is commonly called "industrial fallout." It can be brake dust, rail dust (flecks of metal that come from train wheels/track), and a number of other things.

The good news is, your car is white so they're easily noticeable and if treated properly won't do any permanent damage. If you let them go to long, however, the rust can spread under your paint and bubble up.

The resolution is to use a clay bar. This may sound funny, but I actually created a how-to on Claybar use to satisfy a Technical Writing course requirement in college. It has pretty decent instructions and nice pictures, though is pretty large (6MB). Thumbing through it now I realize how much my writing has improved since then, and it has some extra stuff in it to meet the project requirements, but it should be sufficient to help any first-time clay bar users.

You can find it here: http://www.jason-nemeth.com/files/Ne...ayBarUsage.pdf

 

thank you all, i will try the proposed remedy

 

Just helped a buddy clay bar his white car and there were similar "rust" marks on it. The clay bar did the trick.

 

Same problem here. every time i wash my car there is tons of these little damn rust specs. so I end up using the clay bar quite often. Glad to finally know it is these terribly dusty brake pads. I will be changing these out in a week or two. is this a common problem with performance pads, like giro disc?

 

man,

i spent a long time to remove there from both my doors and trunk, didnt even bother with sideskirts.

when somebody says dont press on the claybar, man, i did not listen, thats stuff doent come off easy at all, paint is still on car, looks nice after putting some wax on it

 

I definitely have some behind the rear fenders that's starting to come through, but none on the surface of the paint. Never heard of pads causing that though

 

i just got done with my white mitsubishi galant gtz which i will be selling so i can put money down on my new lancer ralliart rotorglow with the recaro package . thank god i stop at another dealership before to look at a civis si used 2006 with milage for $16000 . I am glad that i stoped on my way there this car blows away honda. i should have know better since i have had my car for 7 years with 77,000 miles on it has been good to me. sorry that i am not a true lancer nut but i will be posting my pics next month.

 

That looks like "rail dust", which isn't covered by warranty. This happens when the vehicle is shipped by train from the port when it comes in from Japan. Then it's put on a car carrier and delivered to your selling dealer. Sometimes on the train, and depending on where the car is on the train, you'll get sparks from the train wheels which kick up a bunch of metal fragments. These fragments get stuck in the clear coat and over a time will start to rust, that's also why you're seeing it on the side skirts. That's what's going on in your car, and white paint shows this the most. I'd suggest taking it to a really good detailer that can clay bar out all the pieces of metal that are stuck in your clear coat.

 

It definitately IS rail dust and my car also had it when I took delivery. At first I thought it was tiny splatters of tar but they were beyond rediculous to remove. Basically I just had Lasik done and couldn't see all that well for the first week. Then when the metal bits starting really rusting after a wash and my eyes were 20/20 I saw them covering the entire car... I knew the Sales Manager really well and explained the situation. While environmental contaminents are not under warranty he immediately asked if he could take the car in for a day and do a full diamond care detail on it. They got 95% of the spots off and I used Meguir's Paint cleaner to get the last few spots.

If I had to clean the entire car I would have been there for at least 3-4 hrs trying to clean them up. I imagine some cars only have a few spots but mine must have had a few hundred so don't back down from them correcting the paint problem if it wasn't your fault.