instead of using compound for paint transfer...

[Mezzoni]

so i overheard my coworker talking today, and apparently on his drive in something flew off a truck and hit his bumper. he said it was plastic and left some color on his silver Altima. I then heard him say, brace yourselves, "I`m gonna rub some gasoline on it, it takes it right off"...

after processing if I heard this correctly I go up to him and go wayne, did you just say youre gonna use gasoline on your paint. "yea it works great" dude you`re going to destroy your paint (aside from the fact gas isn`t the cheapest cleaning agent in the world, or the other million reasons this is insane). THEN he says "na man, its silver so you cant tell"

LMAO I just said to myself he clearly doesn`t understand and left it at that

 

[RTexasF]

Not the most desirable approach but it won`t hurt anything. The paint will need decontaminating after and some type of protection applied. Ever fill up with gas and have the pump not shut off? Gas goes all over the paint and it`s no big deal.

Having said that it`s not the way I would approach it.

 

[Mezzoni]

Never really thought about the spillage from the gas tank, other than it always seems to be one of the first spots of rot although gas probably isn`t 100 percent the cause. I know some GM cars had a foam in the panel that absorbed liquid like a sponge and would cause the rust

 

[Accumulator]

Gasoline generally only damages old-school single stage (and it *CAN* damage that...guess how I know ). Never had it damage b/c, NEVER.

FWIW, I wouldn`t use an abrasive product like compound to remove a paint transfer until I`d exhausted all the less-harmful alternatives..and those have always worked for me except with some stuff on white paint (which the compounding didn`t always fix either, but then I stopped before I did overthin-damage).