How to remove sap?

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blkSRT

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Well atleast I think it is sap.It is very small spots about the size of a pin head.You can remove some with your fingernail but a brown spot is left behind.I will try and get some pics but I am really bad at that.Forgot to add that claying will only remove the top of the sap.
 
If it's sap, it is a 'resinous' product and can be removed with anything that will dilute resins. (If anyone says 'laquer thinner' I am going to freak out)

Our ChemE major from the deep south should be able to answer this one for us.

How 'bout it intel??
 
why not laq-thinner ??

-- (not trying to start a flame war, just curious 'cause it works for me on the dried up crystalized type of sap when either denatured or isopropyal alcohols don't :) )
 
Well,it looks like the green rubbing alcohol is going to work out, the only problem being that I have to knock off the hardened sap with my fingernail to get to the fresh sap underneath.I'm gonna take a guess here and say that there's no way I can get around doing each little spot individually? I guwess I have to accept the fact that it's going to take a long time.
 
Nope, you are gonna have to do them 1 by 1. If you put the alcohol on a towel and let it sit on the spot for a few second it will remove the oldest and hardest sap.
 
I personally would use "Goop-Off". It won't evaporate, therefore allowing time for solvent to penetrate pitch. It sounds like it's pitch from a CottonWood tree.
 
I have had good luck with a product made by stoners its called tarmenator. Works very well but it will definatly strip the wax/sealent off.
 
I know its been a while but I an back online.I took the car to a so called detailer and he said he had seen the spots before and that it wasnt sap but it was spider droppings.Anyone heard of this before?
 
That's some serious spider droppings or one big as spider....... I have used mineral spirts with good luck and lac Thinner as well. Don't knwo why anyone would not if they where going to polish out after..........Althought I have never seen spider droppings so I can't advize
 
Not a good pic but if you look almost in the center there is a few dots.That is what I am refering to.
 
Although I've never seen spider droppings I have seen insect (especially bee) droppings on my car and they look just like the brown spots on your hood. The droppings on my car are easy to remove with QD spray but I have a lot of wax on there. Most sap will be sticky when fresh and hard as a rock when dry but can usually be removed with the alcohol.
 
I am surprised at the lack of mention of using clay. I use it quite a bit when the sap gets heavy, and it seems to always do the trick for me.
 
Wow, a year later, and this thread shows back up.
I had to look twice because it only looked like a week till I noticed 2004 then 2005.

Do you still have the sap on the car :-p

"J"
 
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