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After having wolfgang sealant and pinnacle wax on my truck, I still have a difficult time getting rid of bug residue. Yes, the bugs might be on there a couple of days but I feel that they should just wipe off. I'm using a safe scrub sponge and poor boys bug squash. What do you guys use/do?
 
Bugs are bugs, once they dry and cake on regardless of what you have on the vehicle they are still some what difficult to remove. I have used that same combo you have too.
 
I am going to suffer a full throttling from many users here, but I will take the heat anyway.

A coating will greatly assist with this. Tar is much more difficult to remove than bugs and on my coated vehicle tar wipes off with a regular wash mitt process.
Bugs are even easier to remove. One pass wipe and they are gone.

I apologize for the posts that follow...
 
I can't speak for all coatings but I know that Opti-Coat makes it easier to remove tar and is the only thing I have seen to prevent Artillery Fungus from bonding and staining. Bugs are going to bond to anything once dried. I use Poorboy's World Bug Squash @ 3:1. It is LSP safe at that dilution and very effective. Let dwell for a 30-60 seconds and most bugs will come off with pressure washer or ONR wash. Sometimes a second application might be necessary but it greatly reduces the chance of marring from any type of scrubbing. Just don't use in direct sunlight or on hot surface.
 
I just wipe the bugs off my front bumper when I return home for the night. They never have time to really stick. UWW+ and a short nap microfiber is all that is required if you get in the habit of doing it.
 
They pretty much either pressure wash or wipe off of my car with Cquartz. Also, Adam's Quick Sealant releases bugs very easily. One time just a drive in the rain knocked off the bug guts (not the whole thing, just the actual body/ guts).
 
cleanfreak3 said:
After having wolfgang sealant and pinnacle wax on my truck, I still have a difficult time getting rid of bug residue. Yes, the bugs might be on there a couple of days but I feel that they should just wipe off. I'm using a safe scrub sponge and poor boys bug squash. What do you guys use/do?
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Even if you feel that bug-guts, that have dried-up for a couple of days {:eek:}, should just wipe off a vehicle that's got some LSP on it...

When Bugs hit a moving-at-speed vehicle, they can easily penetrate the few microns of LSP-thickness that the WDGPS and Pinnacle Wax is supposed to provide...And then: have their exoskeletal and acidic wastes attach to, or also penetrate, the vehicle's paint-system.

Best to remove them ASAP!!


Bob
 
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