Paint over spray

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Received a email from a potential client that 2 of his vehicles have paint specs all over his car. The neighbors had painted their house using a spray gun on a windy day. They have agreed to pay for the removal. Any tips or products that can make removal easy? Price range I should charge?
 
I have had mild success with clay... But it seemed like WAY too much effort to me. I don't think I was dealing with normal house paint though... It was like gray epoxy metal paint from a construction site or something.

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Way to grind craz0boy . :props:

Use the search feature - key word latex paint. Auto Geek Online Auto Detailing Forum - Search Results .Plenty of threads.

Email the prospect to get definitive answer of :
1. Paint type used .
2. How long it has been baking under the Texas sun.
3. Never bid w/o eyeballing.

As far as price range - can't help you...don't know your demographics.
 
Try scraping it off with your finger nail gently. If it comes right off its latex. Should be easy with any paint compound I imagine with a DA/yellow pad. I did it by hand years ago with a rubbing compound and foam pad for a latex (bunch of dots from house overspray). For oil based, unsure.
 
Defiantly going to get some more info about the overspray, good point. Going to see if I can inspect the vehicles up close and maybe do a test spot. And I found an old thread and video of Mike claying out paint specs using just clay and clay lube. Pretty sure there was a lot of elbow grease involved though lol
 
I've seen some dude on youtube scrape paint overspray off with a metal razor blade... I can't, in any way, see how that would be safe to do but he sure got all of it off pretty fast.
 
I've had great luck removing REALLY bad overspray with Griot's (yellow) clay. I've tried Meguiar's smooth surface clay without doing much. I keep Griot's clay around specifically for really bad fallout, overspray, etc. Its a lot more sticky then normal clay so its kind of a pain to work with but its gotten stuff off that I couldn't get off any other way
 
Nicholas@Autowerx said:
I've seen some dude on youtube scrape paint overspray off with a metal razor blade... I can't, in any way, see how that would be safe to do but he sure got all of it off pretty fast.
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there was a quite extensive thread on this forum where this fellow got bashed pretty hard and it got ugly once he chimed in too.

i think he would put down a coat of wax and then remove the wax with the razor blade. not the technique i would use, but he does a lot of paint over spray removal across the country.

do a test spot. see if clay would work. look into getting some plastic razor blades(will save your finger nails). plan on doing at least a one polishing step after.
 
I have more info from the client.
Paint is latex, most of it came off when he washed it. Both cars are white and the over spray is tan paint.
Im ordering the yellow clay from Griot's, Xenit (which Mike has said worked well for him), and going to get some plastic razor blades.
Should be inspecting this weekend and working on the cars next week. Ill be sure to post pics and let yall know how it goes.
 
If you're going to use Griots clay, you should use Latex gloves as after a while of claying, the clay starts to stick to your hands and it's hard to get off. Even with pumice.
 
I'm dealing with this same problem. I picked up a clay bar from my local auto body & paint supply store yesterday. Brand is Presta purple high abrasive clay. Car currently has yellow over spray from road. Not sure how long it sat on the car. Anyways I kept the vehicle lubed as I worked the clay. It took a lot of effort but little by little it started to come off. I still have to finish as there is still long splatter on the section just below the passenger side door. Also still have to tackle the wheel well which is full of paint.
 
kmsdetailing said:
If you're going to use Griots clay, you should use Latex gloves as after a while of claying, the clay starts to stick to your hands and it's hard to get off. Even with pumice.
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Good tip. I'll remember to throw on some gloves
 
MikeAOK said:
I'm dealing with this same problem. I picked up a clay bar from my local auto body & paint supply store yesterday. Brand is Presta purple high abrasive clay. Car currently has yellow over spray from road. Not sure how long it sat on the car. Anyways I kept the vehicle lubed as I worked the clay. It took a lot of effort but little by little it started to come off. I still have to finish as there is still long splatter on the section just below the passenger side door. Also still have to tackle the wheel well which is full of paint.
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Luckily for me the overspray is not bad and if anything not even visible unless your inspecting close up. Its more of a " i want my neighbor to pay for this!" type situation lol Checked out the vehicles Sunday set them up for this weekend and will be doing full exterior detail and overspray removal on a Dodge Ram Crew cab and Scion xb.
 
I just did 23 cars with the same thing and they need to be clay bared .Also the clay will only last for 2 to 3 cars at most the clay I by is 30.00 a bar if it was me I would get 100.00 per car. most times you clay then wash then clay agian then wash then wax. was taking me 2 to 3 hrs per car. ps paint was 2 weeks old on the ones I did.
 
kmsdetailing said:
If you're going to use Griots clay, you should use Latex gloves as after a while of claying, the clay starts to stick to your hands and it's hard to get off. Even with pumice.
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when it is sticking to you hands its no good any more get new bar
 
I feel that these sort of situations are where the clay bar substitutes such as the foam block, the Nanoscrub pad and the prep towel really come into their own - since you can just wash them out, they're likely to be more economical than using several bars of clay on just one car to remove the overspray, and if you're going for a more aggressive clay, you'll get marring too (same as the substitutes), so that's no longer an issue to consider.
 
master detailer said:
when it is sticking to you hands its no good any more get new bar
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Actually used the griots clay brand new out of the package and it is really sticky. Used gloves and plenty of clay lube. Worked fine
 
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