Some Vandal Poured 7-UP/Sprite overnight leaving residue!!

[TroyM]

After weeks of learning how to correctly detail and ordering the right products after research...

I wake up today to find that after detailing my car, some inconsiderate vandal decided to pour 7-UP/Sprite all over my car leaving sticky residue...

I tried a couple of products, none worked good enough to remove the sticky residue. I then gave Chemical Guys Speed Detail and Wax (pink color) and let it sit for 30 seconds, worked like a miracle!

Have you ever had that experience?!

 

[Sicoupe]

Sorry to hear that. I would love to catch them in the act! It would be very nasty for them.

 

[TroyM]

Sorry to hear that. I would love to catch them in the act! It would be very nasty for them.

I wish I could get my hands on them. I installed security camera around the car to make sure it never happens again.

 

[Lim3]

Sorry for that man.
Some people are just plain stupid.

I haven't had anything like that occur.
I did however park in a store lot to have the lottery associate (person that refills the lottery) park so close her "plump" self couldn't fit, causing her to dent my fender.

She said the paint transfer was a tree.
Cop didn't do anything about it.

 

[Chris's FX4]

Closest I've come is someone taking window paint and drawing inappropriate parts of the human anatomy, as well as writing the words on my windows. Then someone taking their milkshake cup and sticking it on my antenna through the straw hole in the lid, cup wasn't empty. Finally, more inappropriate pictures stenciled into my dirty paint by someones fingers.

People suck...

Sorry to hear that.

 

[TroyM]

Sorry for that man.
Some people are just plain stupid.

I haven't had anything like that occur.
I did however park in a store lot to have the lottery associate (person that refills the lottery) park so close her "plump" self couldn't fit, causing her to dent my fender.

She said the paint transfer was a tree.
Cop didn't do anything about it.

Closest I've come is someone taking window paint and drawing inappropriate parts of the human anatomy, as well as writing the words on my windows. Then someone taking their milkshake cup and sticking it on my antenna through the straw hole in the lid, cup wasn't empty. Finally, more inappropriate pictures stenciled into my dirty paint by someones fingers.

People suck...

Sorry to hear that.

Thanks for the comments. It's like some people have 0 respect for other's property, especially cars. Any idea what one could do to avoid being a target? Lol I guess the shine attracts bad attention

 

[Rayaz]

It is a sign of our degrading society. If you have a decent car that you obviously care about, it attracts buttholes who resent what you have. Don't EVER take up more than two spaces to avoid door dings, parking diagonally makes criminal damage a sure thing.

You have my sympathy....

 

[997911]

Thanks for the comments. It's like some people have 0 respect for other's property, especially cars. Any idea what one could do to avoid being a target? Lol I guess the shine attracts bad attention

Haters gonna hate. Some people are just jealous of what they don't have. View attachment 16586

 

[TroyM]

It is a sign of our degrading society. If you have a decent car that you obviously care about, it attracts buttholes who resent what you have. Don't EVER take up more than two spaces to avoid door dings, parking diagonally makes criminal damage a sure thing.

You have my sympathy....

Haters gonna hate. Some people are just jealous of what they don't have. View attachment 16586

Thanks all. Rayaz I just try to park at the end of a parking lot... it helps by avoiding door dings and such, my last car got a lot of those rops:

 

[hoyt66]

Sorry to all. It's the same stupidity that makes ppl think its funny to step on your new white tennis shoes!

 

[TroyM]

Sorry to all. It's the same stupidity that makes ppl think its funny to step on your new white tennis shoes!

Hahhaha I must agree that's quite annoying, but still funny

 

[oldmodman]

It should come off with plain old water.

It's just a sugar based liquid with some carbonic acid (very mild) in it.

Unless a puddle of it formed somewhere it should be easily dissolved by water. No soap needed.

 

[vegas911gts]

You don't have a garage to park it in overnight?

 

[TroyM]

I tried water but it was too sticky to come off. Might have been poured something else as well, it left residue marks and little puddles here and there.

My garage is occupied with a friend's 1965 230 sl, stunning work of art if you ask me.

 

[cardaddy]

Funny you mention that. (Not funny about your car, just the soda part). When I was a kid and we'd go on road trips during vacations, driving in the rain the windshield would get gunked up with bugs, road oil and such. My Dad would stop and get a Coke... the proceed to pour it all over the windshield to cut through (the crap). I was always amazed when he did it, yet the wipers would always start working better in an instant.

To me, all I could think about was, BOY I'm thirsty, and DARNED that is going to make the car all sticky. :laughing:

 

[TroyM]

Funny you mention that. (Not funny about your car, just the soda part). When I was a kid and we'd go on road trips during vacations, driving in the rain the windshield would get gunked up with bugs, road oil and such. My Dad would stop and get a Coke... the proceed to pour it all over the windshield to cut through (the crap). I was always amazed when he did it, yet the wipers would always start working better in an instant.

To me, all I could think about was, BOY I'm thirsty, and DARNED that is going to make the car all sticky. :laughing:

Awesome story :xyxthumbs: I love road-trips! We used to go hundred of miles in a packed minivan with every imaginable that one could eat packed back when I was a kid.

 

[BillE]

Funny you mention that. (Not funny about your car, just the soda part). When I was a kid and we'd go on road trips during vacations, driving in the rain the windshield would get gunked up with bugs, road oil and such. My Dad would stop and get a Coke... the proceed to pour it all over the windshield to cut through (the crap). I was always amazed when he did it, yet the wipers would always start working better in an instant.

To me, all I could think about was, BOY I'm thirsty, and DARNED that is going to make the car all sticky. :laughing:

Oh Tony, you really hit the memory button with this one...the old brain had completely forgotten about that one.

Bill

 

[cardaddy]

Awesome story :xyxthumbs: I love road-trips! We used to go hundred of miles in a packed minivan with every imaginable that one could eat packed back when I was a kid.

Minivan, oh my.... those things didn't come along till long after I was a kid. Really long! What I remember was big old Oldsmobile's, lots of them. Dad was a huge Old's fan. Back in the days of Daytona, racing on the beach, he ran with guys that'd run booze down there from Atlanta. Once they got there they'd pull their back seat out, along with the mufflers and hubcaps and race! If they didn't wreck the car (too) bad they'd put them back together and drive home. :laughing:

Back to the road trips.... When I was in elementary school we had a 63 Cutlass convertible and I had a cave carved out for my side of the back seat. Later on we always had Olds wagons, like the one on "That 70's Show". By then, (1968) my brother was born and they had a padded area in the back seat for him (no such thing as car seats back then) and a hole on one side for me. I'd crawl to the back on top of all the 'stuff', luggage and whatever else we had packed the car with and wave at people out the back window. Plus, I always had a bed made on top of everything. Yup, my infant brother had a bed in the back seat and I had one on top of all the stuff waaaaaaaaay back in the back. Heck when I was really little I'd lay down on the back shelf, BEHIND the seat and sleep.
That puppy would be so full that I'

Oh Tony, you really hit the memory button with this one...the old brain had completely forgotten about that one.

Bill

YES SIR!!! That one is an oldie but goodie! (fwiw, I'd not thought about it in decades either until I saw this post) Oh, oh oh.... that 63 Cutlass ragtop I mentioned, I just remembered we went to New Orleans when I was I dunno, maybe 7 or 8 and was strolling down Bourbon street, as we'd walk by some of the places there were shall we say neekid' (or darned near it) girls inside and Dad said I'd keep stopping and trying to pull him inside. :laughing: Any-who.... We left there and went to Graceland, (Elvis was still alive then) and another car kept honking and honking and waving once we got to Memphis. Dad was thinking he was going to end up using his .38 and come to find out.... he'd left his keys hanging in the trunk lock! My oh my....... now THAT is an old one that I'd certainly filed away. Boy I'd do anything to do a road trip with my Dad about now, if ya' know what I mean.

 

[BillE]

... Boy I'd do anything to do a road trip with my Dad about now, if ya' know what I mean.

In a heart beat! It is funny, how one can remember those road trips like they were yesterday. I do miss traveling on what are now considered 'the back roads', the interstate system is great, but ya sure miss a lot of the local color.

Bill

 

[cardaddy]

In a heart beat! It is funny, how one can remember those road trips like they were yesterday. I do miss traveling on what are now considered 'the back roads', the interstate system is great, but ya sure miss a lot of the local color.

Bill

Yup... and things like pulling over to get a Coke that was so cold, when you opened it up ice formed inside. Then grabbing that bag of salted peanuts and pouring half a handful into the Coke. Ahhhh those were the days.

Then there's just missing your Dad. It'll be 7 years this June, and 10 for my Mom (same exact day in June btw). Boy I don't know if I'll ever get used to that one.