overspray removal

[mowgli]

My nova was parked in the company workshop & one of our blokes had to spray a load of guttering with an 'environmentally friendly' enamel paint. This bloke had apparently sprayed things before. It would appear that he meant walls with urine whilst drunk.....
So I now have a car that is half red & half red with black overspray.
This stuff used a solvent free thinner, and I tried using a steam cleaner with detergent. I used some petrol on the windows with some success.
Any good ideas would be appreciated

[Benn]

g3 on a cloth,
or g6 on a mop if your brave enough,

or some blue clay bar,

[mowgli]

OK I have some g3, but what about the plastic trim?
I suppose it needs a respray anyway, maybe this is god's way of hurrying it up a bit.

[Benn]

blue clay bar might be better for trim,some paint surplyers will sell it,but t will lift any peeling paint tho,but gets overspray off easay.

[dan23]

tar an glue remover or thinners on a cloth for the plastics but you will have to use bumper gel or similar on them after or they will go white .

t cut should work on the body work if not a little bit of thinners in a window clener spray bottle then t cut .but dont use thinners on anything that recently been painted

[mini_kris]

i say get your company to pay for the respray ;)

[Benn]

i wouldnt use thinners on plastics,

[Mazz]

i say get your company to pay for the respray ;)

Yep, thats what i'd do...

[mowgli]

problem with the thinners is that the paint came from a 'green' shop, the kind of place where you can get tofu bogrolls for ?19.99 for 4 from. the thinner supplied with it smelt like orange juice, and there wasn't any spare. the paint is an enamel. normal thinners didn't even manage to clean the spray gun out.
As, by rights I shouldn't actually have stuck the car in the workshop, I think getting my employer (my big brother) to pay for it, when he actually threatened to skip it, is a bit tenuous.
I think the g3 or clay bar idea seems best

[NOV4_SPORT]

i had a load of clear coat over spray on my car, meguires "quick clay" done the job, so good i had to do the whole car to match its smoothness lol.

[dan23]

have you tryed t cut if the paints new t cut should bring it straight off
t cut it then polish it while the t cut is still on it saves all the hard rubbing an is a lot quicker
thinnners on plastic is ok if the thinners is on a cloth an your gentle with it if you put loads on it does fook the plastic

[mowgli]

trust me, it is beyond t cut.
I keep saying that thinners won't do it. it is not solvent based
we are talking of more than the normal overspray. this stuff is like powdercoat. it is stuck on.

[Benn]

you might have to take it to a bodyshop and let them have a look and see what they can do...i had to do this my dads car after it was coverd in a tar like under seal stuff,took it to my work and we had to blue clay it and buffthe crap out of it to get it off,

[Stuart]

hammer and chisel

[cavturbomike]

If thinners does nothing then take it to a bodyshop, they will try thinners even if u tell them it wont work, but the bodyshop i worked at had a fancy machined bit of metal (about an inch by an inch) thats very flat but has a "machined" egde, u kind of slide it back and fore over the paint and it will take the nibs(overspray) off without scratching the paint. Then just give it a polish over. Would imagine most places will have something similar. Have you tried panel wipe, it sometimes takes things off that thinners wont but u have u work at it longer.

[Benn]

its a bodyfile....scarey thing to use,

[Matt2107]

Pics?

[cavturbomike]

Nah its not a bodyfile, i know what they are! Its nothing fancy and it wouldnt say it was hard to use, cant go wrong, im not sure what the actual name is but il find out for u

[Novadex]

your all mad i tells ya! if this was caused threw the negligence of someone else, then its there fault therefore there responsibility. Why do you think people have insurance? lay it on thick and get a respray ;)

[cavturbomike]

Its his brother! Id say thats a bit harsh

[Stuart]

meh even family have to be responsible for stuff...

would you let your borther off for knocking your house down?

[cavturbomike]

Lol, no but knocking down a house and little bits of overspray are just a bit different!!

[Stuart]

principles are the same ;)

[cavturbomike]

lol

[Jack]

I'd say clay bar and plenty of elbow grease, otherwise if you're planning on a respray anyway then leave it and wait for that. I can recommend a nice shade of red... lol

[mowgli]

final update.
1. my brother owns the workshop & I shouldn't actually have left the car in there
2. the bloke who covered it in overspray is no longer working for us
3. the first response said g3 and it does work but it takes ages I am going to use the electric polisher next,
4. I am worried about some of the replies, some of them were positively scary

[dan23]

try a rougher compound if g3 takes ages

[ade]

if its enamel youve no chance - they coat old cast iron baths with the stuff and once on thats it!!!

You can try a mop with G3 or another suitable rubbing compound - problem with that is youre also rubbing your existing paint work.

It's possible the enamel may have also reacted with the existing paint and once removed may leave like a patched effect (like little dost) behind where the existing paints absorbed it - might not though.

I'd say smooth the affected area with 1000 wet n dry and then if necessary respray the affected areas - but only is G3/mop option dont work..

What colours your car?

And stick some pics up...