House paint overspray

[sil008]

Hi everyone. I have a 2008 Silverado. About a month ago it got covered in tan house paint. I've tried claying with the smooth surface clay kit. It removed a lot of the over spray, but not all. I've also tried cleaner wax, and ultimate compound. Should I try a more aggressive clay? or is there some kind of chemical solution to remove this? Mostly whats left is very small dots of the over spray that the clay wouldn't pick up. Thanks for any ideas.

[Marc08EX]

Re: House paint overspray

I would try using the more aggressive clay.

[Murr1525]

Re: House paint overspray

Yeah, more agressive clay, or one of the newer style rubber 'clay' towels/blocks.

Just remember going more agressive increases the chance of some marring being left behind that may need cleaned up.

[sil008]

Re: House paint overspray

Yeah, more agressive clay, or one of the newer style rubber 'clay' towels/blocks.

Just remember going more agressive increases the chance of some marring being left behind that may need cleaned up.

Is there any product in particular you would recommend?

[Detailing by M]

Re: House paint overspray

sometimes you have to clay a car a few times. Clay Magic and 3m have more aggressive clay. I particularly don't care for them. I myself use the clay towel and the Auto scrubber, but that's an advance tool. My advice is to clay with 3m blue clay until it's gone.

[sil008]

Re: House paint overspray

Thanks very much. I'll try the 3m blue this weekend.

[sil008]

Re: House paint overspray

Tried the meguiars blue clay on this today. Did get alot of it off the paint, but there are still some small specs left. Is there any kind of rubbing compound to try? Or should I just take it to a bodyshop?

[CHzo6]

Re: House paint overspray

Body solvent or paint thinner? Also plastic razor blades.

[Detailing by M]

Re: House paint overspray

if there is still contaminates on the paint then your not done claying. I've had to clay a car 3x before it was clean.

[jarred767]

Re: House paint overspray

Sometimes overspray can be really finicky stuff, especially on different kinds of trim. It can take hours and hours to get rid of it depending on how bad it is. It sounds like you've gotten a good majority of it off, so it may just need another pass with the blue clay that you have been using. If that doesn't work, or you don't feel like it will, you could go one more step up and use the pink aggressive clay. You will almost certainly have to go over it with a polish after you use the pink clay, but it sounds like you've got Ultimate Compound so that should help you there. Just try to be as gentle as you can with the pink clay so that you only give yourself as much work as absolutely necessary.

One other thing that might be causing more issues for you is the fact that you used the cleaner wax. In a way you have kind of sealed the overspray in by putting the wax over it. You may want to do some wax removal before going at it again with the clay so that the clay can be in direct contact with the overspray instead of having the layer of wax inbetween the two.

[CreamPuff]

Re: House paint overspray

I got some overspray on my Lexus after i was spray painting some things in the garage...didn't realize that much was floating around. Spent about 2 hours claying my car with the detail clay...luckily I just waxed the car a few days before so i think that is what saved me.

[sil008]

Re: House paint overspray

Thanks everyone. Guess I'll give it one more try, and I only used the cleaner waxy on a very small section. Wanted to see if it would help take off what was left over.

[jrsb1418]

Re: House paint overspray

Laquer thinner worked for me. Recently there was some painting done outside my shop and my car got oversprayed front to back. the paint was in bigger dots versus typical fine mist overspray, . I tried a fine & aggressive clay but they wern't working, i also tried the plastic razor blades. The laquer thinner cut the paint immediatetly, however there were some leftover marring because the thinner flash dries and i think makes the microfibers more brittle and thus scrtached my soft paint. Polishing afterwards was a must for me.

[Detailing by M]

Re: House paint overspray

I would have never used laquer thinner. That's way to hash. Claying would have worked just fine. I would have used an auto scrubber and been done in a few mins. I had a mini van that required 3 different clays and aplacations and my auto scrubber worked in seconds and on DA saved my arm and lots of time.

[jarred767]

Re: House paint overspray

Okay, I've been claying over sprayed cars for some time (probably the call I am least excited to get by the way), and I have never heard of an auto scrubber, I've always just clayed them until I feel like my arm is gonna fall off.

So, what is the auto scrubber and how does it work?