ONR vs tar

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While dipping my toe into ONR usage I was recently pleasantly surprised when I was able to remove sap from pecan trees recently. Today I tried it on my black car that's driven down The Highway From Hell to work and back. I broke out the hose and gave her a good rinse off as it hasn't rained since the last wash (I work at a refinery and one of the many things it's subjected to besides the aforementioned drive is coke dust, which must be rinsed before a wash.) Having the passenger side away from the sun I didn't notice the tar - from patching a stretch I travel through - on the passenger side of the car until I started ONR'ing it.



The first indication was a blackening of the chenille wash sponge I use.

"Huh?!?" Upon further inspection I saw "light" tar along the side of the car.



"Crap!" I thought. I then got the twin halogens out so I could evaluate it further. Yep lots o' "light" tar. The chenille wash sponge was already contaminated so I went over the panels several more times w/ the sponge, rubbing the grit guard and paint grid between passes and the ONR removed it all. The surprising part is that it was mostly released off into the solution - which I would have changed out if this hadn't been the last panels of my wash.



For those keeping score: ONR 2 - tar and sap 0; 1 chenille wash sponge in the garbage!
 
A couple of squirts of ONR on a bird bomb breaks it up very quickly also. You hardly need to wipe at all. ONR is the Swiss Army knife of detailng products with all its uses.
 
+1 on the bird bombs. I went out for my break and noticed that there was a huge bomb on my car. I'd say it was there for no more than 2 hours but the heavy rain that just started about half an hour prior wasn't making a dent. I reached for my trusty spray bottle of ONR that I keep in my trunk and gave it a few sprays and it loosened right up.



Mind you - when I got back in, I was teased for the rest of the afternoon because of the fact that I ran out in the heavy rain just to remove a bird bomb. Oh well..
 
Just a quick question, it's been a looong time since I used ONR. If it's disolving tar and sap wouldn't you think it would be removing wax/sealant?
 
Danase said:
Just a quick question, it's been a looong time since I used ONR. If it's disolving tar and sap wouldn't you think it would be removing wax/sealant?
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That's a really good point. It doesn't seem to dissolve my wax (P21S) of Klasse SG (I use DP RW&G), but I'm surprised that it washes off tar!
 
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