Overspray

[Detaillab]

While helping a friend move about six months ago my 1996 Volvo 850 fell victim to overspray from my friends neighbors. They were painting an old trailer. I am in school and didn't get around too it untill today. I used Meguiars Smooth Surface Clay kit. Unfortunatly it did not work. It is white acrillic paint. I will be working by hand, so keep that in mind. My only thought is to move to agressive clay on the pro side. The obvious downside is that with out the DA it would be tough to remove the scuffing that would come with using it. Any ideas would be appreciated.

[gioprivatemove]

Re: Overspray

This is hard and i believe it would give you a whole day job. So do you have the aggressive clay? or you have to buy them?
Do you have a compound?
Try compound, work with damp terry towels. After that you can polish with scratch X and afterwards wax it .

[TxZ71]

Re: Overspray

I had the same thing happen to my new truck about a month ago. The smooth surface clay kit took most of the overspray off, but I had to really put my back into it on some of the spots. I mean lots of QD and multiple passes with the clay with good pressure. There are still just a very few overspray spots left, so I'm going to try a little Scratch X on them this weekend to see if that takes the rest of the blemish out. Good luck.

[Detaillab]

Re: Overspray

I appriciate the replies. I do not currently have any of the aggressive clay, and I don't want to go there if I don't need to. Anybody think that the Pro clay (the blue one) is more aggressive than the cunsumer clay? I won't bother with scratchX or compounding because they are made to fix blemishes below the surface. Any work that way will just glide over the overspray completly, or simply remove the layer of paint they are attached to. There is a significant ammount on the plastic and rubber pieces of trim, any ideas there?

[onawrxhigh]

Re: Overspray

I appriciate the replies. I do not currently have any of the aggressive clay, and I don't want to go there if I don't need to. Anybody think that the Pro clay (the blue one) is more aggressive than the cunsumer clay? I won't bother with scratchX or compounding because they are made to fix blemishes below the surface. Any work that way will just glide over the overspray completly, or simply remove the layer of paint they are attached to. There is a significant ammount on the plastic and rubber pieces of trim, any ideas there?

Detaillab,

I believe that the detailer line mild clay(blue) is more aggressive than the smooth surface clay but I am not sure. I used it to remove red overspray from my friends black Maxima and I had to do the front(where all of the overspray was) three times to get it all off. Once it was all off it was as smooth as glass.

In this picture you can see how much is really being removed. It is possible that the lighter colored clay from the Smooth Surface kit is doing the trick but you are unable to fully see your results. I would recommend trying a few more pass with the Smooth Surface kit then if it is not doing the trick get the detailer line mild(blue) clay. Hope this helps. This picture is from the Maxima detail.



Andrew

[yalerd]

Re: Overspray

I believe that the detailer line mild clay(blue) is more aggressive than the smooth surface clay but I am not sure.

Yes the C-2000 clay bar is more aggressive than the one that the Smooth Surface has.

You can always try out this one but didn't you have no improvements at all with the Smooth Surface Clay? Maybe you can slow down a little bit your arm movement and concentrate on the section you are working in. If this doesn't do the trick then I would suggest getting the mild clay