So it's truth in detailing time
I thought it was warm enough yesterday afternoon to do a rinse-less outside so I got everything staged and backed the car out and looked at what I would be working on
The front and sides of the car had gotten badly splashed on the ride home from the tunnel wash last Friday but I felt sure a rinse-less with a good pre-spray would be safe but the lift gate was still dirty and the bumper and facia were worse
It was cold and I was in the shade and so I figured I would hit those areas first, leave the RW solution wet on them, then hit the roof and start my way around the car, hitting the problem areas again
I used McKees N914 at WW/QD dilution and soaked the back end and let it dwell a bit and started on the lift gate and it came pretty clean so I left it wet and worked down to the bumper and facia and knocked off the new road spray but the problem areas I saw after the tunnel wash on Friday were still there
I hit the bad spots again and it did't phase them so I got a brush and my bottle of heavy Hyper Wash mix, sprayed the brush and the bad spots and went at them gently, and it didn't touch them
I knew they weren't there when I left the dealer two weeks prior and tried my best to figure out what it could be
Here comes the embarrassing part...
Last Sunday we went to Easter brunch at my son's house and I took a baked glazed ham
The ham was in a throwaway aluminum pan, sitting in a cardboard box in the back of the car next to the pup's kennel
My son's driveway is steep and after we got there, I got my wife out and situated, I got the side dishes and stuff out of the middle floor, I popped the tailgate and pulled down the apron on the rear waterproof "pet mat" and discovered the ham juice had sloshed out of the pan, soaked the cardboard and was all over the pet mat, and when I pulled down the apron on the pet mat some of the the juice ran down the lip of the hatch opening, over the bumper, and down the facia
I hadn't made up my normal "bird bomb box" for the new car yet and didn't want to start wiping on the paint with a shop towel so we mopped up what was inside, thankfully contained by the pet mat and the all weather mat below it and left the mess on the bumper "for later"
Later didn't come and now I am looking at these spots that are probably going to need Dawn or BH AF or something to break down
By this time my hands were soaked, it was in the upper 30s and I was chilled to the bone so I went over the area one last time with RW just to make sure I wasn't leaving any HW and wrapped things up because we had to run to our son's house
I stopped at the tunnel wash on the way home from my son's just to make sure anything I had used was neutralized and rinsed and the spots are still there
So this morning I am getting together a bird bomb box and strategizing how best to attack the ham juice
I am thinking BH AF at a double ratio, agitated with a brush, and the quarter car wash to make sure all the AF gets neutralized