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Re: Anyone here use H2O2?
Hi Dave,
I've never heard of using Hydrogen Peroxide as a bug remove before? I usually just use car wash soap and water and remove bugs when I wash the car. Lately we've had a lot of bugs, could be from the excess rain this year, and what I'll usually do is saturate the front of my car with water as I wash everything else and this tends to soften the bugs making it easier to remove them when I wash the front of the car.
I'll look around the house and see if we have some Hydrogen Peroxide and give it a try. -
I'm not sure that using hydrogen peroxide would be a good idea. A quick google search turned up this...
towards the middle of the article under "stand alone applications" it lists one of its many uses as the "oxidation of various water-soluable polymers" and as a ferrous iron oxidizer.
Now, it has been a long time since college chemistry, but neither seems very good for cars or car finishes...
In the original thread, the author posts a warning that exposing hydrogen peroxide to light causes it to decompose into carbonic acid. I am pretty sure that carbonic acid is also more commonly known as "carbonated water/soda water"
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Soda Water............
I remember the old timers talking about cleaning the bugs off their windshield with Coke. In any case it would be mildly acidic and I don't think to good for the paint.
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