Removing paint from car bodywork

Cellulose thinners will very likely get it off, although it depends a bit on what sort of paint it is. The trouble with thinners is that it may also get your car's paint off, but again, it depends on what sort it is. Try a little spot somewhere where it doesn't matter. Your car may have a two-pack paint coat so I expect (but not sure) that this would accept cellulose thinners without damage.

Ordinary paint stripper may work OK, but you'd need to test it somewhere unimportant.

Rob Graham

Hiya best way is to use T-Cut Matalic based. Since the Paint is still relatively fresh should take it out without any problems,

Ritz

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Provided the original paint isn't really fresh it'll just stay there when you wipe over with thinners. Worked a treat on the wife's Clio when some arse sprayed a row of cars.

Using abrasives (which is what this is) on a lump of paint runs the risk of taking off surrounding bodywork paint while removing the lump, unless the solvent in the T-Cut dissolves the lump. I'd prefer to dissolve it off if possible.

Rob

I can always get tar and white-line paint and the like off with polish (a very mild abrasive, if you like), no matter how long its been on for. Provided the paint splashes have not been able to bond to the underlying bodywork paint, but instead are sitting on the lacquer/polish layer, I'd be surprised if they didn't come off with a bit of gentle persuasion.

Thanks for all the replies everyone, by the way have you got a particular name or make of cellulose thinners that i should be looking for?

Thanks

du.

The cheapest. 5 Litres for less than a tenner. Known colloquially as 'Cooking' thinners. Mainly used for washing sprayguns etc. Mike.

Yup. My advice as well. Always worked for me. Very unlikely to affect the original paintwork, but try it on an unoticeable area first. Mike.

Try meths or surgical spirit before you try anything else, as long as the paint has not been there for a month or so it should come off, and the meths will not harm your paintwork.