Removing Paint Overspray on PPF and Glass

[nsainfreek]

So I recently got a new car and had paint protection film (PPF) put on it. I just got my ceramic coating product in the mail and was going to apply it this weekend. With my luck, my father decided to paint the driveway with an paint sprayer. When he realized that wind was catching some of the paint he stopped and waited for us to move our cars. Needless to say, there's paint overspray all over my car.

Using Tar-X, the paint spots do come off but it takes a lot of work and I can't completely tell if I get all of it until I put my hand across the surface again and feel the bumps. This process is really long and tedious and I'm nowhere near done. Then I notice that my glass has paint overspray all over also. I also have a full glass roof and it's all over that too. I was hoping for a more efficient and certain way to remove the overspray from the PPF and the glass. I've read people use claybar to remove overspray from paint but heard it wasn't good for PPF.

Any insight would be appreciated. If not, I may spend the whole day just trying to work all this overspray out. Even then, i'm afraid to put the ceramic coat on and seal in any overspray i may have missed.

[TMQ]

Hi, and welcome to Autogeek...

There are a couple of things you can try.

1. Clay bar
2. Paint reducer. I get a small bottle from my local painter.
3. Compound.

If you compound the paint---follow up with a fine polish.

If you are planning to coat---Might as well polish out the paint and get it ready for a coating.

Be very, very careful on the PPF. I don't know of reducer will hurt the PPF. You can check with the body shop or try on a small area out of sight and see what happens.
Do not use compound on the PPF as well. Only a fine polish and maybe 2 or 3 light passes. Stop and check. Heat from polishing will harm the PPF.

Hope this helps...

I'm sure others will chime in in due time.

Tom