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RandallNeighbour · 08-29-2005, 07:04 AM

On the way to work today in my Honda (thank God it wasn't the Boxster) I came up on some slow traffic and discovered a flatbed truck had lost 30-40 gallons of what looked like beige paint or thin sheet rock mud.

I navigated my way through it fine and then a pick up truck went through a very large puddle of it and sprayed my front bumper, plastic headlamp, hood, passenger side glass, mirror, and doors with the stuff.

Any ideas as to what I should use to remove it without damaging the paint job or clear coat or the plastic lens of the headlamp?

PS - I doubled back to get the paint truck's license plate, but by then he'd secured his load and vanished. Grrr.

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08-29-2005, 07:04 AM	#1
RandallNeighbour Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 7,243	Removing oil-based paint splatter On the way to work today in my Honda (thank God it wasn't the Boxster) I came up on some slow traffic and discovered a flatbed truck had lost 30-40 gallons of what looked like beige paint or thin sheet rock mud. I navigated my way through it fine and then a pick up truck went through a very large puddle of it and sprayed my front bumper, plastic headlamp, hood, passenger side glass, mirror, and doors with the stuff. Any ideas as to what I should use to remove it without damaging the paint job or clear coat or the plastic lens of the headlamp? PS - I doubled back to get the paint truck's license plate, but by then he'd secured his load and vanished. Grrr. :ah: Last edited by RandallNeighbour; 08-29-2005 at 07:24 AM.