How To remove Paint Transfer off your car's paint

My neighbor came over and asked if I could look at his girlfriends car. She has a new Chrysler 200 and had a plastic shopping cart rub across the drivers door, pretty minor. I did a search on paint transfer and this was one of the threads that came up. I would never have thought to use a paint cleanser to remove paint transfer but it was off in no time and the paint looked good as new! I was all set to get out the magic eraser knowing it might need polishing after but try the least aggressive first :xyxthumbs:. Great tip Mike!
 
Looks like paint over spray. If a light consumer grade claybar like the mothers or meguiar's claybar kit doesn't work you might need a more aggressive clay. Nanoskin clay towel or mitt may do the trick as well.
 
Buster906 said:
I need help with this anyone PLEASE
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I already created you you're very own thread for this project here,


How can I remove overspray paint off the roof of my Tahoe?


And when I click on the above thread it looks like although you didn't get all the overspray paint off the Tahoe you finished the job and returned the Tahoe back to the customer?


Just to know... this thread you're posting to is about removing IMPACTED paint off a car not OVERSPRAY paint. Some techniques and products would probably work on both types of problems but they are completely different types of problems.


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Thank you Mr. Phillips for your helpful advice. I am thinking about purchasing the Nanoskin medium wash sponge.
 
This is AWESOME!!! I've actually got a vehicle coming Thursday that I believe will have paint transfer. So we'll see how it goes.

I don't have any paint cleaners, but do you think Meguiar's #7 Show Car Glaze or BF One Step would Suffice?

I also have 3D One, Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish, and also the Sonax Perfect Finish.


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That's the main reason I purchased my "Pixie". All my friends who visit have some sort of "rash" that I make disappear!
 
Jacob Harrod AUTOCLEAN said:
This is AWESOME!!! I've actually got a vehicle coming Thursday that I believe will have paint transfer. So we'll see how it goes.

I don't have any paint cleaners, but do you think Meguiar's #7 Show Car Glaze or BF One Step would Suffice?

I also have 3D One, Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish, and also the Sonax Perfect Finish.
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Here's the deal....

Normally with this type of issue, that is where someone has rubbed or bumped their car against something, the paint on the "thing" came off and KEY WORD --> IMPACTED <-- ONTO the paint of the car. It's ON THERE.

The technique I use and I share in this article is to NOT machine polish first. The paint transfer can be so IMPACTED ONTO THE paint of the car -that machine polishing is not as safe or as effective as simply RUBBING ON THE PAINT TRANSFER BY HAND.

Make sense?

By rubbing by hand you keep temperatures LOW. You can also stay focused on JUST the impacted paint. Remove the impacted paint FIRST by hand and THEN machine polish the underlying paint to perfect it and remove any marring you caused by rubbing by hand.

I'm telling everyone straight-up - this is the SAFE approach. Sure machine polishing can work if the offending paint transfer is not too impacted onto the car - but you won't find out until you start working on the car.

Me? I take the safe approach. Everyone else can do as they see fit in their eyes. :cheers:

One more thing, when removing paint transfer by hand first, a compound works best. In fact an aggressive compound that you can still feel grit or abrasives in it. Basically the abrasives are going to CHEW off the paint transfer. It's hard to find any quality compounds that you can FEEL the abrasives in them because everything is so refined now days.

The OLD RUPES Zephir Gloss Compound was like this. I have not felt the new RUPES DA Compound or the Rotary Compound. Most compounds now days feel like Jergens hand lotion. This is great for normal paint correction but for removing paint transfer - old school works better.

Same goes for COTTON TERRYCLOTH instead of microfiber. Cotton terrycloth like a wash cloth out of the linen closet has more bite than microfiber and enhances the bite of the compound.


Hope this helps...


:)
 
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