The City had some people painting a water tower(spraying the paint) and guess what? Yes sir, overspray everywhere. The city is going to correct this, but some guy with a company called "Overspray Experts"is trying to tell me that it will only take about a hour to fix each car. I told him to do it right, I thought that was impossible. Any help on this will be much appreciated.
How much time to claybar a corvette with overspray?
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imported_themightytimmah
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Well, if you just burn it off with a decon kit, you could do a pretty solid job in an hour. That or lacquer thinner. To do it with a clay bar is going to take at least a couple of hours per car, plus you'll need patience and some serious upper body endurance. I'd do it chemically too, if I had numerous cars to do.
The decon kits use an acid/alkaline/ph balanced wash series, which is not nearly as harmful to your car as it sounds. Almost every new car bought or sold gets this process, the only downside is that this will melt through your coat of wax, and you'll need to reapply. I'd do that part myself, cause I don't know what the "Experts" use for wax, but I doubt it's Souveran
. After the chemical soak, they probably use a red (more aggressive) claybar to take the extra off (I bet they'll scratch it up here).
Personally, I would find out what the city was paying them, and if it was over 100 per car, I'd do the work myself. Here are the supplies you're going to need.
Finish Kare Decon Kit 60 bucks (www.fk1usa.com)
Claymagic red bar 20 bucks (anywhere really)
Some sort of polish (PO85RD for me, SSR1 for the less rotary-enhanced)
LSP (red or black, go RMG than Souveran, light colors, go EX-P than FK1 Pink).
If you let them do it, you'll need to polish and wax anyways, most likely. If you are not comfortable with the decon kit, I would suggest letting them do it. Doing it yourself with a clay bar is miserable, and you're going to induce more marring than they would, if you go at it hard enough to remove all the spots.
Best of luck,
Tim
The decon kits use an acid/alkaline/ph balanced wash series, which is not nearly as harmful to your car as it sounds. Almost every new car bought or sold gets this process, the only downside is that this will melt through your coat of wax, and you'll need to reapply. I'd do that part myself, cause I don't know what the "Experts" use for wax, but I doubt it's Souveran
. After the chemical soak, they probably use a red (more aggressive) claybar to take the extra off (I bet they'll scratch it up here).Personally, I would find out what the city was paying them, and if it was over 100 per car, I'd do the work myself. Here are the supplies you're going to need.
Finish Kare Decon Kit 60 bucks (www.fk1usa.com)
Claymagic red bar 20 bucks (anywhere really)
Some sort of polish (PO85RD for me, SSR1 for the less rotary-enhanced)
LSP (red or black, go RMG than Souveran, light colors, go EX-P than FK1 Pink).
If you let them do it, you'll need to polish and wax anyways, most likely. If you are not comfortable with the decon kit, I would suggest letting them do it. Doing it yourself with a clay bar is miserable, and you're going to induce more marring than they would, if you go at it hard enough to remove all the spots.
Best of luck,
Tim
buellwinkle
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What the "expert" isn't taking into consideration is what about overspray on parts of the that are not smooth painted surfaces like trim, grey textured bumpers (think Honda Element), wiper blades, tires, grills. If it happened to me and the city said they would take care of it, I would expect not one speckle anywhere on my car and I don't think it's possible in one hour no matter what method used and clay will only do the painted surfaces and glass and even then you have to get a commercial grade clay for removing overspray, not the stuff we normally used on our cars and that may leave scratches so you may have to buff/wax anyway. If the chemical process noted above works, that's probably best. I just can't imagine a chemical strong enough to remove latex paint overspray and not somehow damage car paint so let us know how it works out.