Overspray removal, good OTC product suggestions?

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Through a series of unfortunate events, my black Mustang got misted with a fine layer of white overspray. Come Saturday, my car and I are going to be in a big holiday parade, and I need to get her shining. I need a good recommendation for an over the counter polish or compound to remove the overspray. I've run short on time and don't have the ability to order my good stuff :( Car has been waxed and polished not too long ago, but will be waxed again if there is time. Any guidance is much appreciated!
 
Mydnyghte said:
Through a series of unfortunate events, my black Mustang got misted with a fine layer of white overspray. Come Saturday, my car and I are going to be in a big holiday parade, and I need to get her shining. I need a good recommendation for an over the counter polish or compound to remove the overspray. I've run short on time and don't have the ability to order my good stuff :( Car has been waxed and polished not too long ago, but will be waxed again if there is time. Any guidance is much appreciated!
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Did you try using a clay bar where you have overspray? Maybe try a test spot?
 
Another vote for the clay bar! Especially if it was recently waxed it should work!
 
Another vote for clay. I had a family member who had some serious overspray on one door of her brand new Honda, the dealership tried to remove it with a rotary, failed miserably, and ended up just using clay, and got it all.
 
Clay X4, Twice I had overspray on my cars, once from highway line painting and once from some moron (me) spraying wrought iron lawn furniture too close to the car. Clay handled both cases and left the finish ready for wax.

Bill
 
Another vote for clay. I recomend Clay Magic, you can get at your local auto-parts store.
 
You can purchase Meguiars Clay Bar kit in the car wash section at Walmart for under $20. It works well for removing overspray and other surface bonded contaminates. Just be sure to re-wax after. Clay will remove your LSP.
 
Awesome, I have a clay bar, just not sure how much clay lube I have. There's a Wal Mart nearby, will check there for the Meguirs stuff. Thanks a ton guys, will give this a go!
 
The Mothers clay kit is also a good otc product to remove overspray. Meguiar's and Mothers detail sprays are interchangeable with each other's clay bars.
 
There is an awesome OTC product for removing overspray, tar and is a great general cleaner. It has an awful name but works great. Krud Kutter is available by the gallon at Home Depot for about 11 or 12 bucks and works great. Awesome stuff for getting stains out of carpet too, including the dreaded red stains. Use is 50:50 with water or straight if you have to. Let it dwell and then you could even use it as clay lube for an extra kick. If that doesn't remove it, I would be astonished. They even have a product to cut graffiti.
 
richy said:
There is an awesome OTC product for removing overspray, tar and is a great general cleaner. It has an awful name but works great. Krud Kutter is available by the gallon at Home Depot for about 11 or 12 bucks and works great. Awesome stuff for getting stains out of carpet too, including the dreaded red stains. Use is 50:50 with water or straight if you have to. Let it dwell and then you could even use it as clay lube for an extra kick. If that doesn't remove it, I would be astonished. They even have a product to cut graffiti.
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Clay is always a good place to start, but it really depends on the type of paint on how long it's been there. Clay can be very time consuming, or even ineffective on some over sprays and I will usually try some sort of solvent like Richy mentioned above first as claying of over spray often results in some amount of marring too.
 
What about Menzerna Power Gloss compound? I have two overspray spots I am trying to remove.
 
This is an older thread, and I am wondering how it went for the OP. In the short time frame I would have recommended a pro. OTC products are going to be somewhat limited, not productive towards the cause if you are in a hurry. Other than that, I agree on what Rasky said: try a solvent first. Claying will leave some marring that could be visible during the parade.


Csmit176 said:
What about Menzerna Power Gloss compound? I have two overspray spots I am trying to remove.
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Different approach to removing deposits is to abrade them off. The topic was focused on removing the contaminants without polishing, without removing any of the vehicle's paintwork. Any polish would do basically the same thing. PowerGloss, being a harsh compound, will leave a world of hurt to the vehicle's finish, and will need subsequent polishing to refine. But the real problem is that it may or may not remove the overspray. If you polish over embedded particles you will more than likely push them further into the paint. Also, the foam pad will bounce off the embedment creating a "crater" effect until you can cut through the vehicle's paint enough. So I would never recommend using polish to remove contaminants unless I have tried everything else first.
 
Mydnyghte said:
Awesome, I have a clay bar, just not sure how much clay lube I have. There's a Wal Mart nearby, will check there for the Meguirs stuff. Thanks a ton guys, will give this a go!
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Any good QD will work well as a clay lube!
 
I would always try clay and if that didn't work try using polish with white pad to remove the over spray.
 
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