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Central texas road film how to remove
Hello all, the road spray after a rain leaves a film on my white vehicle that is very hard to remove.
Film turns a redish color and looks like it maybe be from iron in the soil.
Any ideas on how to remove?
I am working on detailing the vehicle in order to seal the paint surface.
Vehicle is a 2002.
Thanks
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Re: Central texas road film how to remove
The road surface is full of contaminants, both from the road material itself, and also because of cars leaving back residues of fuel, oil, metals, and also rubber from the tires. When it's raining, all this dirt gets partially solved/floating in the rain water, and then it gets splashed onto your vehicle, where it sticks.
In order to remove these contaminants you can use CarPro IronX+TarX, or TRIX (which combines the former two into one), which will dissolve/loosen iron and tar particles. Once that's done, you need to rinse and wash the car. If you haven't done it in a while, you might also want to clay the paint to get off the embedded contaminants, that can not be removed by a regular wash cycle anymore.
However, if you have serious amount of dirt sticking regularly to your paint, then this will obviously only treat the symptoms, not the cause. The solution in this case could be polish the car and apply a ceramic coating. This will reduce the amount of contaminants that can stick to the paint in the first place, and will make it easier to remove the ones, that still do.
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Re: Central texas road film how to remove
A sealant will protect it just fine as well. [after you’ve done the recommended steps mentioned to clean the paint] The polishing step is optional.
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Re: Central texas road film how to remove
Any updates on new products to use for paint cleansing. I’m always surprised when using AIO product how much dirt is on the pad
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Re: Central texas road film how to remove
Originally Posted by pharden
Any updates on new products to use for paint cleansing.
Well you could use a dedicated paint cleaner, this would be a non-abrasive lotion type product that you can apply by hand or machine and it will gently clean the surface of the paint.
If I needed a product like a paint cleaner instead I would simply use either a fine-cut polish or a cleaner/wax. You get ALL the benefits of the paint cleaner plus defect removal and in the case of a cleaner/wax you get protection.
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I’m always surprised when using AIO product how much dirt is on the pad
Yep... and that's my point about any daily driver including those with ceramic paint coatings. When a car is exposed to the world it gets a dirt film build up, the kind that normal washing won't remove. The more time that goes by the more exposure the great the build-up.
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Re: Central texas road film how to remove
Thank you for your advice. Paul
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