Rat
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This forum has a lot of folks who know about cars, so maybe someone here can help me. I just discovered that someone must have scraped something against my car (no, I don't have a Leaf yet. This is my Volvo C70). :x
There is no dent or deformation, so it must have been very low speed/impact, probably a shopping cart loaded with something going between cars. It left a 3" stripe of paint on the fender. So far as I can tell there is no damage to or breaking through the clear coat, just a deposit of paint on top, two colors, in fact. I tried scrubbing with a plastic brush and a Tuffy pad with water, and about half of it came off, but not the rest. Then I used a paper towel with some very old paint thinner, which I quickly washed off and dried so as not to harm the clear coat, but the unwanted paint is still there. Can someone recommend a good product that will dissolve or loosen the deposited paint without harming the clear coat? Acetone, maybe? I'm afraid to try anything that might make things worse. I don't think steel wool would be advisable.
There is no dent or deformation, so it must have been very low speed/impact, probably a shopping cart loaded with something going between cars. It left a 3" stripe of paint on the fender. So far as I can tell there is no damage to or breaking through the clear coat, just a deposit of paint on top, two colors, in fact. I tried scrubbing with a plastic brush and a Tuffy pad with water, and about half of it came off, but not the rest. Then I used a paper towel with some very old paint thinner, which I quickly washed off and dried so as not to harm the clear coat, but the unwanted paint is still there. Can someone recommend a good product that will dissolve or loosen the deposited paint without harming the clear coat? Acetone, maybe? I'm afraid to try anything that might make things worse. I don't think steel wool would be advisable.