Road Line Paint

Frapp · 11-01-09, 05:44

How does one get it off?

My town decided, in their infinite wisdom, to paint a single yellow line on a 2 way road that can hardly fit 2 Bugs side by each. They do this overnight, just before a small rain comes through. The paint isn't dry at all, and I'm driving to work.

Now I have some fun yellow paint splash all up my driver side rear quarter, under the wheel wells, and the backside of that bar under the door.

I'm trying to avoid a whole repaint. Someone suggested a clay bar, but I wanted to hear what you guys thought.

smprince1 · 11-01-09, 06:32

A good solvent such as PrepSol or WD-40, a plastic razor, and a lot of tedious careful hand scraping would do it. Best to do it sooner than later as it becomes very hard to remove after it's fully cured.

MBenz · 11-01-09, 06:40

3m adhesive remover should help. Traffic paint is very nasty stuff. I had this happen to me on a road trip. None of the otc bug and tar removers worked so i ended up claying it all off. Not a good move but I was afraid this stuff might stick forever so it was worth the little bit of polishing to clean up marring from the claying. Just get if off ASAP.

a.k.a. Patrick · 11-01-09, 06:57

Theres night and day between thermoplastic paint and water based or solvent based. Solvent based would be the easiest to remove, then water based, then lastly thermoplastic. Try mineral spirits, just keep it away from plastics. Also a plastic razor blade is your best friend.

Dan O · 11-01-09, 09:31

I recently had the same problem. Stoner's Tarminator, a plastic scraper and lots of elbow grease cleaned this up. A little bit of marring did happen but polished out nicely. I also tried clay before this method and it didn't touch the stuff.

yakky · 11-02-09, 07:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan O

I recently had the same problem. Stoner's Tarminator, a plastic scraper and lots of elbow grease cleaned this up. A little bit of marring did happen but polished out nicely. I also tried clay before this method and it didn't touch the stuff.

Tarminator with lots of dwell time and repeat applications. Make sure you wash the Tarminator off afterwards, it will interfere with claying and/or polishing.

Striker · 11-02-09, 08:05

I had the same issue. I got a clay bar and that was it. Clay bar it. Problem solved.