Is Road tar everywhere?!?

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Chubs

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My question is, How many of you encounter road tar on a car and how do you deal with it?
I don’t hear many people talking about removing tar in there full details. Now I’m curious if road tar is an issue since I detailed a Trans-Am WS-6 that came from Las Vegas. The car was in terrible shape and it had no road tar. It was just dingy from a sand dust type substance, which cleaned up with a APC. Every vehicle I encounter here in Erie, PA has road tar on it. This can take up quite a bit of time for me and I’m looking for different ways to remove the tar and save some time. I mainly use a specific tar remover that evaporates after I clay the top panels and then I start buffing the car. I have tried using the clay bar and this works, but seems to take longer and it destroys the clay bar. If anyone has any suggestions I’m all ears??

Thanks,
Chubs
 
I don't deal with much road tar, but have to constantly be claying over spray. When I first took delivery of my Black car, it had what looked to be a huge crack on the door sills. Turned out to be tar.

If and when I do get the occasional tar removal, I'll use 3M's Adhesive,tar, and wax remover.
 
If I ever get any tar on my car (rare) I use some tarminator and then rapply lsp. For clietns with really bad Tar I use tarminator and then clay.

Greg
 
GregCavi said:
If I ever get any tar on my car (rare) I use some tarminator and then rapply lsp. For clietns with really bad Tar I use tarminator and then clay.

Greg
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Is tarminator good on bugs as well?
 
Chubs said:
My question is, How many of you encounter road tar on a car and how do you deal with it?
I don’t hear many people talking about removing tar in there full details. Now I’m curious if road tar is an issue since I detailed a Trans-Am WS-6 that came from Las Vegas. The car was in terrible shape and it had no road tar. It was just dingy from a sand dust type substance, which cleaned up with a APC. Every vehicle I encounter here in Erie, PA has road tar on it. This can take up quite a bit of time for me and I’m looking for different ways to remove the tar and save some time. I mainly use a specific tar remover that evaporates after I clay the top panels and then I start buffing the car. I have tried using the clay bar and this works, but seems to take longer and it destroys the clay bar. If anyone has any suggestions I’m all ears??

Thanks,
Chubs
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IG tarminator,
WD40 works as good and most people have this laying around.
 
I've yet to encounter more than a handful of cars without road tar since we opened on the east coast in August.
 
WD40 works great. Something we used at the detail shop I worked in was straight mineral spirits. The tar just runs right off the car. Now I use that as the 'go to' product for tar removal. It does the trick faster than anything else I've used. I would consider Mineral Spirits to be generally available OTC too. Any PepBoys should have it. If that fails then I'm sure Home Depot carries it too.
 
Jngrbrdman said:
WD40 works great. Something we used at the detail shop I worked in was straight mineral spirits. The tar just runs right off the car. Now I use that as the 'go to' product for tar removal. It does the trick faster than anything else I've used. I would consider Mineral Spirits to be generally available OTC too. Any PepBoys should have it. If that fails then I'm sure Home Depot carries it too.
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I was at walmart yesterday and i noticed the also carry mineral spirits.

If not Try Mineral Water :stuart: ..Pei told me to say this.
 
Mineral spirits is more like paint thinner. I wouldn't suggest smoking while using this product. It is a very effective tar/adhesive remover.
 
The one time I had a real accumulation of road oil/tar because of construction that I couldn't avoid, I washed the lower part of the car with kerosene. Then washed normally and rewaxed it. Cheap & easy. (Like me:))

Charles
 
If available you can put some diesel on a rag to remove the tar.

We use to spray the bed of the dump truck with diesel to keep hot aspalt from sticking to it,also the laborers would use the diesel to clean their tools.I;m not sure if this would remove your lsp,but if your waxing the car then it wouldnt matter..
 
We used to use mineral spirits until we discovered Sprayway's Industrial Cleaner Wipes. They are non-toxic,non-flammable and non-hazardous. Won't tear up your hands and no obnoxious odors. Works well with tree sap and adhesives.
 
I use a product called neylon spoter I buy it from a local paint $ body supply wokrs good for me I never had to use clay It just melts it away!!
 
My product of choice for tar is AutoPrep by Kleen Strip.

It is a product used by body shops to clean paint as part of the surface preparation. I've gotten it at Pep Boys and AutoZone.

Use it on a small out of the way spot to make sure it doesn't damage your paint. That's the warning. However, I've used it on several cars with no problem.

If there is fresh tar anywhere in town, my wife can and will find it.
 
Jngrbrdman said:
WD40 works great. Something we used at the detail shop I worked in was straight mineral spirits. The tar just runs right off the car. Now I use that as the 'go to' product for tar removal. It does the trick faster than anything else I've used. I would consider Mineral Spirits to be generally available OTC too. Any PepBoys should have it. If that fails then I'm sure Home Depot carries it too.
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I've had some real nightmare cars with tar and I second the mineral spirits.....its cheap, works real well, and is easy on the paint..I would clay right after to insure all is picked up and then re-wax /polish
 
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