GTR vs tar - need your help!

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FES

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I’m currently facing a serious challenge: customer of mine tried to remove fresh road tar from his car and this is what he ended up with:







He applied tar removed directly on the car and let it sit for a minute. After wiping it he was left with this drips. He says that he tried to washing it off, claying, a bit of polishing but nothing helped. All detailers he addressed in his area sad that it is ridiculously hard to remove if even possible. I haven’t seen the car yet in person, but before I’ll starting working on it this weekend, would like to hear some suggestions from the Pro’s. Any solvents I can use, M105 on wool or foam, wet sending?



P.S.: The car is 2008 Nissan GTR in pearl white, and I’m in Ukraine, so getting some of the product mostly available in the US is a bit problematic.



Thanks for your help in advance!
 
FES said:
I’m currently facing a serious challenge: customer of mine tried to remove fresh road tar from his car and this is what he ended up with:







He applied tar removed directly on the car and let it sit for a minute. After wiping it he was left with this drips. He says that he tried to washing it off, claying, a bit of polishing but nothing helped. All detailers he addressed in his area sad that it is ridiculously hard to remove if even possible. I haven’t seen the car yet in person, but before I’ll starting working on it this weekend, would like to hear some suggestions from the Pro’s. Any solvents I can use, M101 on wool or foam, wet sending?



P.S.: The car is 2008 Nissan GTR in pearl white, and I’m in Ukraine, so getting some of the product mostly available in the US is a bit problematic.



Thanks for your help in advance!
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wow zdarova! Am from Ukraine too! hope you fix that thing! It has many layers of special paint so it "heals" itself from scratches:ignore:wall on sun, so i dont know how to fix it. post pix if you do! poka. i heard its super bad to spray bug remover on that gtr paint.
 
I had the same kind of problem with hot tar on 2010 Lexus SUV last week, I removed all the reside from the paint with Body Solvent and clay. I was left with huge brown-yellow drips down the hoodm, but it was all etching. Some 105 on a foam cutting pad followed by 205 on a polishing pad cleaned it up fairly fast with on slight etch-stain left that was so deep I was uncomfortable removing it on a few month old car. The owner was trhilled as the stain was pretty much completely removed.
 
FES said:
I’m currently facing a serious challenge: customer of mine tried to remove fresh road tar from his car and this is what he ended up with:







He applied tar removed directly on the car and let it sit for a minute. After wiping it he was left with this drips. He says that he tried to washing it off, claying, a bit of polishing but nothing helped. All detailers he addressed in his area sad that it is ridiculously hard to remove if even possible. I haven’t seen the car yet in person, but before I’ll starting working on it this weekend, would like to hear some suggestions from the Pro’s. Any solvents I can use, M105 on wool or foam, wet sending?



P.S.: The car is 2008 Nissan GTR in pearl white, and I’m in Ukraine, so getting some of the product mostly available in the US is a bit problematic.



Thanks for your help in advance!
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heavy HEAVY cut polish like ssr3
 
Thanks guys for your tips. The heaviest compounds i have on hand are M105 and SIP, i'll try what would do the best job if any. Any detergents or mixes i can try as well?

Just never faced this problem before. The owner is really freaked out, because all the body-shops/detailers he addressed so far said that there is nothing that can be done to fix it and it should be repainted. Which I think is a bit of nonsense. Will try to follow up with results.



Thanks again!
 
First things first, take some paint readings.



See if 205 with a cutting pad will remove the defects, if not step up to 105 with a heavy cut pad. If the staining remains, take paint readings again to assure to verify safe clearcoat levels and that try wetsanding it with 2,000 grit followed by 3,000 grit and polishing it out with 105 followed by 205.



That should solve the issue.



-Jeff
 
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