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Bodywork pain - Foreign paint spots!

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I have no idea how on earth this happened, but it's proving to be a right pain!

I was cleaning my 987 GT Metallic Silver this afternoon, and I noticed that on the front bumper and other panels (including headlights and sidelights) on the front of the car fine drops of dried paint; magnolia in colour, not sure what type of paint it is.

All I do know is the paint spots are proving a real pain to remove, I have tried Autoglym's Super Resin polish and the paint spots are very diffidult to remove.

After all the elbow grease I use keeping my pride and joy spotless, to find this paint spray on my car is really really annoying!

Has anyone got any ideas about what form of solvent I could use to safely, and more easily, remove this paint from the bodywork and glass lights?

Thanks for any thoughts.
 
The magnolia paint is probably coming from your neighbour, who's probably having the outside of their house painted and the wind is blowing tiny drops of wet paint onto your car. Get them to fix the damage and pay for it!
 
Thanks Rodney, thought of that but sadly couldn't find a neighbour in a wide radiius doing just that!

Alex, thanks for the clay bar tip; I haven't got one but I will source one and see...

 
Hi you should try raceglaze to source your clay bar www.raceglaze.co.uk they have claybars and tons of stuff give them a call and they might be able to point you in the right direction to rid your car of the paint drops

Chris
 
i had a similar problem with a motorbike - turned out to be where the council redid the road markings. didn't get a penny of the bvggers though!
 
Clay bar will not shift paint.

Use T cut, small area at a time then polish, then wax up.
If you can get hold of an electrical orbital polisher then use Meguires cut and shine to polish out the paint droplets and finally re-wax the pannels
 
In my experience T-Cut will remove the metal flake - even the metallic T-Cut products. Chuck out your T-Cut. Worst DIY product ever made.
 
Thanks for all the thoughts, and so far my reseach and resposnses from both here and boxa.net suggest that a clay bar is the thing to try; in process of getting hold of some and other cleaning stuff from:

http://www.autoshinecarcare.com/

T-Cut is scary stuff, and I will look at that as a very last resort for the car's metallic based paint.

London987 funny you should say that, I have a vague recollection passing some road works on Sunday which just might have been the culprit!

If you had troulble getting any compentation out of your local council, you should have a go here in Guernsey!

Hopefully get the clay bar before the end of the week, and go to work...
 
I have successfully removed paint spots with a clay bar.. next door neighbour with a spray can on a windy day [&:]
Hard work for sure, but I don't think I'd need to go as far as T-cut

garyw
 
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