What do you use for trouble spots like tar, insects, bird bombs and unknown road spuge?
I learned something new yesterday. I got home after a nice drive and noticed a dime sized bird bomb on the passenger side. I used Meguiar's FI to moisten then wiped the offensive little turd off of my black paint. Uh, oh... although the offending bird bomb was only on the paint for a couple of hours it left a dull spot in the finish where it had been.
First I tried the simple approach of waxing the spot after QDing. Wrong, and I already knew this too, wax will only reveal the beauty of the prep work. That's a long way of saying the wax did nothing to restore the dull finish to the spot.
That's when I decided to use a fairly new weapon in my grime fighting arsenal, Pinnacle Paint Cleansing Lotion (PPCL). This product accomplished what I had hoped for. I treated an area about 6" in diameter with the spot in the middle. When I wiped off the PPCL I could no longer detect where the dull spot was. :up My hypothesis is that the bird bomb still had some residual layer of crud on the paint that was causing the dull finish.
I had expected the circle that the PPCL was applied to would look significantly different than the waxed area surrounding it but it did not. So I just rewaxed over the PPCL area with a overlapping strokes outside the 6" diameter and now it all blends perfectly like nothing ever happened.
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I learned something new yesterday. I got home after a nice drive and noticed a dime sized bird bomb on the passenger side. I used Meguiar's FI to moisten then wiped the offensive little turd off of my black paint. Uh, oh... although the offending bird bomb was only on the paint for a couple of hours it left a dull spot in the finish where it had been.
First I tried the simple approach of waxing the spot after QDing. Wrong, and I already knew this too, wax will only reveal the beauty of the prep work. That's a long way of saying the wax did nothing to restore the dull finish to the spot.
That's when I decided to use a fairly new weapon in my grime fighting arsenal, Pinnacle Paint Cleansing Lotion (PPCL). This product accomplished what I had hoped for. I treated an area about 6" in diameter with the spot in the middle. When I wiped off the PPCL I could no longer detect where the dull spot was. :up My hypothesis is that the bird bomb still had some residual layer of crud on the paint that was causing the dull finish.
I had expected the circle that the PPCL was applied to would look significantly different than the waxed area surrounding it but it did not. So I just rewaxed over the PPCL area with a overlapping strokes outside the 6" diameter and now it all blends perfectly like nothing ever happened.
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http://store4.yimg.com/I/classic-motoring_1665_875885
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