I used a sprayer to apply some fence treatment over the weekend, but I didn't bargain on the distance that the mist it generated would travel, nor that our car was probably too close to it!
As a result, I discovered on Sunday that our windscreen had lots of small feint spots all over it, upon further looking I noticed the paintwork did too. Just looks like very small dried water marks. Washers wouldn't remove it from the window, nor did a run through a car wash.
In the end I cleaned all the glass carefully with white spirit and gave the windows a wash down afterwards. Now the glass is fine.
My concern now is to the paintwork (and plastic trim, including (I believe) plastic headlights (it's a metallic blue Mk2 Ford Focus). I'd like to get this sorted ASAP. It's not too obvious, but when you look closely, you can see the 'watermarks'.
I suspect that using white spirit on the paintwork could be bad - and I would think that using it on the plastic, particularly the headlights, would be very bad! (I remember the effect of white spirit on clear plastic when making plastic models as a kid - it turned it cloudy/opaque).
Certainly on the glass, a lick of my finger and some firm (but gentle) rubbing would remove a spot, but a wet or dry cloth wouldn't (until I put white spirit on it - and then it came off without any difficulty or pressure).
Any suggestions as to what I should use? It was a creosote style treatment (rather than the paint stuff) and the sprayer said to use white spirit to clean out.
Thanks
David