Hand cleaner as tar remover! You gotta see this!

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Mike lambert

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I’ll have more pictures and write up later, but somebody at advanced auto told this owner to use hand cleaner to remove the tar!
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We’ll never know what this owner was told. There are cream style cleaners that use a gravity fed pump dispenser (consistency of yogurt). These have zero abrasives in them that work very well at cleaning hands and I have seen guys use this on tar both on cars and and clothing. Goop is an example of this cleaner. We always had a dispenser of this type soap and a Boraxo dispenser side by side, you could clean with or without grit. No, doubt that cleaner was loaded with pumas.
 
I thought it was going to be the cow snot stuff (goop hand cleaner). Then I saw the picture. Obviously one of the cleaners with the abrasive grit in it.
 
Ho-lee mo-lee.

I suppose that’s the large scale version of people using their fingernail to scrape something off the paint?

Nice recovery Mike! Guessing they’ll go a little gentler in the future...
 
I saw a woman using her ice scraper to clean the snow from her hood. I did a double-take on that one.

I couldn`t get my phone out fast enough to capture that one as traffic started moving.
 
As Gearhead noted, I think it was well-intentioned advice, they just needed to use the smooth stuff instead of the pumice. Of course the smooth stuff can be hard to find these days, depending on what cleaner you are looking at.

As Gearhead also noted, I always liked having a choice of grit/no grit, depending on what you were trying to get off your hands. Boraxo would give me a rash on the backs of my hands after a while. Fortunately today we have cheap nitrile gloves.
 
Wow! When I saw the title, I was thinking something along the lines of hand sanitizer and thought maybe you`d discovered some odd, legit, off label way of removing tar. Then I saw the pictures....

Great recovery, that damage was pretty ugly.
 
Desertnate said:
Wow! When I saw the title, I was thinking something along the lines of hand sanitizer and thought maybe you`d discovered some odd, legit, off label way of removing tar. Then I saw the pictures....

Great recovery, that damage was pretty ugly.
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HAHA I thought the same thing
 
All I can think is ?!?What`s wrong with people?!? I honestly don`t see how somebody who`s presumably functional enough to drive could do that and be surprised by the result. Not even some tiny little test spot...IMO it`s an inappropriate level and extent of damage for anything, not just a black car.

Gearhead_1 said:
We always had a dispenser [gritless hand] soap and a Boraxo dispenser side by side, you could clean with or without grit...
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Same here, and yeah maybe the counter guy was thinking of Goop/etc. Though I`ve about had it with the "use weird stuff to do automotive things" mindset; it`s not all that hard/expensive/[whatever] to just use the right stuff and get the desired results.

No, doubt that cleaner was loaded with pumas.
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I doubt it too, more likely some pumice. Although it did kinda look like claw marks...

Heh heh heh...sorry, sorry...couldn`t resist, that image cracked me up.

Mikelambert- Nice save for a "what can ya really do at this point?" situation, but I dunno if I`d want the owner as a regular customer.
 
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