Heavy Duty Cleaning

[matman_72]

Anyone had success with removing heave duty dirt from duco?
In particular, tree sap and related stains from sitting under a gumtree for a month or two.
Any solvents that will work without destroying the paintwork?
Thanx

Matt

[vkberlina]

I had some bad discoloration on my work ute and used bleach & a cap of turps in with my normal car wash, it got rid of a hell of a lot of crap. Then I gave it a really good wax and it came up tops.

scott

[matman_72]

Sounds like a plan,
I didnt want to F around with any solvents before getting advice,
Cheers Madman,

Matt

[vkberlina]

always try solvents in a small test area on their own first usually turps if fine with automotive based paints, metho reacts badly to acrylic and not much hurts 2pac

scott

[VYMAD]

You could try some MEGUIAR'S Scratch X. It seems to remove a lot of crap, but tree sap, like bat ####, might have eaten into the paintwork.....

[50LTRv8]

Have you tried a claybar?