Road paint spatter removal...?

SameGuy said:
I looked all over the State site and couldn't find SOS mentioned.
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Go to their site, then click on the 'specialty maintenance' tab and you should see a new product, that I mentioned above called 'Knock Out".

I would give them a call and tell them your situation, and also ask about SOS, SOS II, and Knock Out (sounds like their latest product...call and ask about it).

It's been several years since I had to use any of this, probably close to 8 years, so it's possible they dropped the "SOS" brands and went with a newer, better product. (Meanwhile I'm researching too.)


EDIT:
Looks like they moved in 2012 from Cleveland to Mayfield Heights, Ohio. So it's quite possible things have changed on a big scale. Here's a link about their move. State Industrial Products to move headquarters, 110 jobs out of Cleveland and into Mayfield Heights | cleveland.com


Here's a bunch of products to choose from.
Graffiti Removers products - Grainger Industrial Supply
 
And of course the forum lost what I just typed up. Grrrr.

I'd like to say the MC1385 made short work of the road paint, but that'd be fibbing. It was tedious going, requiring about two hours, a half gallon of DI water and seven or eight orange plastic razor blades to get the paint off the door panels. Yes, there's marring, but nothing the Flex/LC/Menz combos can't handle. OTOH, the plastic cladding is proving too stubborn for steam. At this point I'll move on, as I think my time will be better used elsewhere. I called the biggest local scrap yard and the guy on the other end giggled, saying that the few Es they've had come though had no cladding worth salvaging. For now I'll wait for the Krud Kutter, Get Off Clean, Xenit and Motsenbocker's Lift Off to come in before putting in any more time on that part of the car.
 
So this is the "before" shot:


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Yesterday I started by trying Krud Kutter Graffitti Remover. It didn't do anything, not even staining the towel.

Next up, Mötsenbocker's Lift Off Graffitti Remover. Same story, however it actually did a pretty good job of lifting grime off the textured cladding. But at roughly ten times the price of diluted LATA, I won't be using it for regular cleaning.

Finally had a go with the GetOff Clean Dried Road Paint Remover. It is several times the price of the Krud Kutter or Mötsenbocker's, so I was careful about accurately spraying and catching runoff into a towel I could use for scrubbing. It started to dissolve the paint almost immediately! In the end it still took about another hour and a half, several more plastic blades, the white Cyclo carpet brush on the HF DA and plenty of sweat equity, but this is the result:


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Now I can focus on cleaning out the nasty interior before I begin paint correction/protection and cladding dressing/protection.
 
Lacquer won't harm basecoat or clear coat ,maybe if it is single stage
 
The acres of unpainted gray plastic trim on the 2003-2006 Honda Element and other cars and crossovers.
 
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