KMG
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So I received a phone call from one of my friend's mothers in a panic. She was following a construction vehicle on the highway and it had threw tar all over her car. She wanted to know what she should do, so I told her to drop the car off at my place as soon as she gets off work. Having not seen any pictures or anything I was not sure what to expect when I would get home, either way I figure the sooner I work on it the better when it is 90-100 degrees out.
Before Pics
So here are a few picture before I started doing any removal work on the car. While it did have a decent amount of tar on it, it really wasn't as bad as I was expecting.
streaks of tar on hood
streaks on the front bumper along with a large amount of bugs built up
tar on the driverside of the convertible top
more tar on the driverside of the top
tar and other road debris built up on the front fender and door
one area of the tar that was on the windshield
Wash, Decon and Removal Process
I started out cleaning the wheels and tires as usual, and followed that up with a strong foam pre-soak and let it dwell for several minutes.
I then started the tar removal process
this picture show Tar-X breaking down the streaks on the hood
another picture of Tar-X on the front bumper
After going around the whole car and treating all the areas that had tar on them, I proceeded to do a 2 bucket wash on rest of the car.
This was followed up with the decon, starting with Iron-X.
The entire car had quite a bit of iron deposits on it. After being thoroughly rinsed of the Iron-X I went over the car with my Nanoskin Wash Mit for one final wash.
After being dried the car was pulled inside. Knowing that the car is doomed to a life of tunnel washes, I decided to just do a quick polish to just clean up the surface a bit without going overkill on chasing all the defects. The paint was in pretty rough shape as the car really isn't very well maintained.
lots of swirls and RIDS on the trunk lid
more swirls and RIDS on the side of the convertible top
This was my first test spot, using Optimum Hyper Compound on a white LC flat pad with my Rupes 15.
I was not overly thrilled with how it looked following this test spot, so I stepped up to an Orange cutting pad which yielded much better results.
before picture on the side of the convertible top
after picture of the same spot
Final Product
The car was the sealed off with Hydr02 and I did a quick cleaning of the interior as it was quite messy also.
the front is now nice, clean and shiny
A few interior shots
And that is it for a fairly quick and simple job. Thanks for taking a look!
Before Pics
So here are a few picture before I started doing any removal work on the car. While it did have a decent amount of tar on it, it really wasn't as bad as I was expecting.
streaks of tar on hood
streaks on the front bumper along with a large amount of bugs built up
tar on the driverside of the convertible top
more tar on the driverside of the top
tar and other road debris built up on the front fender and door
one area of the tar that was on the windshield
Wash, Decon and Removal Process
I started out cleaning the wheels and tires as usual, and followed that up with a strong foam pre-soak and let it dwell for several minutes.
I then started the tar removal process
this picture show Tar-X breaking down the streaks on the hood
another picture of Tar-X on the front bumper
After going around the whole car and treating all the areas that had tar on them, I proceeded to do a 2 bucket wash on rest of the car.
This was followed up with the decon, starting with Iron-X.
The entire car had quite a bit of iron deposits on it. After being thoroughly rinsed of the Iron-X I went over the car with my Nanoskin Wash Mit for one final wash.
After being dried the car was pulled inside. Knowing that the car is doomed to a life of tunnel washes, I decided to just do a quick polish to just clean up the surface a bit without going overkill on chasing all the defects. The paint was in pretty rough shape as the car really isn't very well maintained.
lots of swirls and RIDS on the trunk lid
more swirls and RIDS on the side of the convertible top
This was my first test spot, using Optimum Hyper Compound on a white LC flat pad with my Rupes 15.
I was not overly thrilled with how it looked following this test spot, so I stepped up to an Orange cutting pad which yielded much better results.
before picture on the side of the convertible top
after picture of the same spot
Final Product
The car was the sealed off with Hydr02 and I did a quick cleaning of the interior as it was quite messy also.
the front is now nice, clean and shiny
A few interior shots
And that is it for a fairly quick and simple job. Thanks for taking a look!
