white road paint, spattered on my car.

:af: I dont normally drive my buick special to work but it was saturday and what the hell. Half way there a city truck was in my lane so I changed and before I knew what he was doing I went through a huge cloud of mist. The SOB was painting lines on the raod. At first I crapped a brick but then reasoned to myself that it was probably just dust off the raod from the air presure. Got off work and washed my car, sure enough, specks of white paint on the fender, hood, chrome, door, rear quater....and so on. :af:

From the looks of it, he/she must have had the presure way up, and I moved over as much as I could.

:rant: Dammit, someone is responsable, I should be going after the city right? I picked 1 speck off and it took some car paint with it.

So now what, city hall, then the gun shop?

 

Absolutely - city hall. MAke note of the time of day, the date, the road, any other data you can remember. Down here they have to have caution signs up. And I assume you mean the paint gun shop, right?

- Bill

 

assume all you want :Brow: It'll be like sitting on pins and needles till monday morning.

 

THAT STINKS.. The worst part is the Municipality will do absolutely nothing..

 

I'm hoping as a tax payer, home owner.... blah blah blah......dammit. Maybe.

 

try to remember any identification of the truck, numbers, colour, any special features, etc.... Sorry to hear about the paint, i cant think of any quick fixes without ruining or dulling the paint.

 

Try using a Clay Bar to remove the paint. After getting some pictures of the damage.

 

Ya, when I first saw it, I tried to pick off one and it took car paint with it.

Good news though, The night it happened I sent a email to city hall, and this morning they wrote me back saying that a claim will be started, I'll assume I have to go down there and show the car, anyway its a start.

 

u will need to take it to a bodyshop & have them buff the spatter out of the paint.

 

Whats a clay bar?

ANd a claim is started today, IF they think they are at fault...then something will be done, COULD take up to 6 weeks.

I'm going to contact some body shops and see if I can get something done before winter comes. Also our car club has a show and shine this sat, I'll ask around.

 

My wife drove are then 1 month old dark blue 2003 GMC Envoy to work one day and did not even notice that she had driven on fresh line paint :af: I looked at the truck when I got home from work and it looked different When I got closer I could see white paint mist on the passenger side and yellow paint mist on the driver side and a mix of both on the back :af:

She said she never drove on the line :error:

It took me 3 hours of careful waxing to remove 95% of the line paint but there is still some to be found if you look very close

I still don't know how she did it without driving on the lines uzzled:

 

There is a tool called a nib cutter - Eastwood sells them as do some others. It is a sharp edge that cuts close to the paint. It is used for cutting off the little "nibs" you sometimes get with new paint. If your paint spots are raised above the paint surface it might work to take them off. Then you can buff out whats left....might work.

- Bill

 

THanks for that link, very helpful info.
:TU:

 

I remember running over freshly painted lines for fun once - not realizing until I got home what I was doing to my mother's 73 Cutlass Supreme. Fortunately, it had mudflaps and we didn't wash the car often, so most of the paint stuck to dirt.

I'd go with Mike's idea and try polishing it off very carefully.