It is not safe to park a car outside the garage: one day you may find that a car was doused with paint. Even if you did not fight with your neighbors for a parking space and did not bother the residents of your house with constantly screaming alarms, hooligans and simply inappropriate people can ruin a car. You need to know how best to wash the car in this case.
- Cleaning paint from glass
- Removing paint from the body
- How to remove paint in a car service
- What is abrasive polishing?
- Removing the paint yourself
- Insurance as a guarantee of security
- Contact the police
Cleaning paint from glass
If your windshield is splattered or flooded, there are two ways to clean it:
- Dry paint is carefully cleaned with a plastic spatula, as after painting window frames at home. The remaining traces are removed with a cloth moistened with solvent or a napkin.
- Not always a plastic spatula cope with such stains. In this case, you have to resort to metal (an alternative is a razor blade), but here you need to act even more carefully and only parallel to the glass, so as not to leave scratches.
At maintenance stations for automobiles, paint from glass is removed in a similar way. If you want to remove it from the painted surface of the car, apply abrasive polishing.
to contents ↑Removing paint from the body
If you need to remove extensive dirt, it is best to contact a specialized service center.
How to remove paint in a car service
Professionals use special tools and necessary tools for safe, non-damaging paint removal. With self-cleaning, it is easy to overdo it and scratch the coating.
If the contamination with paints and varnishes is small in area, the master will use a plastic scraper or special abrasive clay (it acts like a peeling cosmetic product that removes dead skin cells: it separates solid particles from the surface of the machine).
Extensive ink stains will require a chemical removal method. Pre-prepared car parts - body, parts - are immersed for 30 minutes in a solution of caustic soda (for this purpose it is heated to 75–80 ° C). Then the machine parts will go into hot water with a temperature of at least 45 ° C. After the chemical treatment procedure, cars are sprayed with a stream of cold water, washing off the remaining solution.
to contents ↑What is abrasive polishing?
This procedure perfectly cleans the car from unwanted war paint. It is carried out in stages:
- Car wash.
- Polishing.
- Re-wash.
- Soft polish.
It is preferable to use auto chemical goods to clean the surface of existing contaminants.
When abrasive polishing, the top layer of the paintwork is removed a few microns thick - this helps eliminate cracking and other minor defects on the body. The procedure is performed using special pastes of various textures:
- coarse-grained to remove scratches - initial polishing;
- medium-grained to smooth the paint layer - the smallest surface defects are removed;
- fine-grained to eliminate circular stains and dullness.
After polishing, cars are washed to remove the remnants of particles of pastes and peeled coating, and then carefully dried.Soft polishing is also carried out by special means. It is necessary to enhance the protection of the metal from interaction with oxygen and give the coating a shine.
For polishing are required:
- polishing machine with the ability to adjust the speed of rotation;
- paste of at least two types;
- surface degreasing agent;
- foam rubber disks of different diameters;
- clean water in large quantities.
After finishing with polish, the surface should look smooth and shiny.
to contents ↑Removing the paint yourself
All industrial coatings manufactured under industrial conditions have adhesion, that is, strong adhesion to the surface they fall on (acting on it chemically or mechanically). Therefore, it is so difficult to wash paint from the body and glass of a car.
At home, you can use:
- Soapy solution - add a car shampoo or dishwashing detergent to a bucket of warm water. Use a soft cloth or sponge to gently wipe the stains. This is the easiest way, but not the fact that it will be effective.
- Nail polish remover - women flush a lot of various contaminants that are not related to nails with this tool. You can use it for paint that stains your car. You will need a terry cloth: moisten it with nail polish remover and wash away any dirt. Then rinse the cleaned area with water.
- Chemical solvent. It requires special care, otherwise arrange yourself an unplanned repainting of the car. The composition of the solvent includes fairly aggressive reagents that dissolve the resin during the production of enamel, so you need to use the tool if there is no other way out. Be sure to remove any elements from the body that could be damaged by solvent exposure before starting work. Cover it with contaminated areas, wait 5-10 minutes and try to remove foreign paint with a spatula. She will come down without any effort on your part.
- Paste to remove scratches (purchased at car dealerships). It not only affects defects, but also perfectly removes pollution. Take a dry microporous rag and paste the desired areas.
- Clay for car cleaning. The kit includes a cleaning spray, wax, polish and microporous cloth. After removing the stains, rub the surface with wax. Clay has a soft texture and therefore does not damage the paintwork.
- Spray cleaner designed for brake pads. Also bought at car dealerships. Use it if the paint is not washed off with soapy water, but is easily pressed by pressing a nail. Treat the surface gradually, in small areas. In the end, be sure to wipe the coating dry.
Insurance as a guarantee of security
You should expect to be paid according to the comprehensive insurance policy if the car was damaged as a result of malicious actions of strangers: neighbors, hooligans and other persons. In this case, the insurance company will indemnify the damage depending on the method of compensation chosen by you when making insurance (this may be a cash payment or repair at a service station).
Attention! If you are married to a person who spoiled the car, and are not in the process of divorce, you will have to pay from the family budget.
If the car is doused with paint due to your own careless actions or it was spoiled by an authorized driver when the vehicle was not used for its intended purpose, you will have to pay for the restoration of the previous form. At the same time, without informing the insurance company and without showing the representatives the damaged car, otherwise after the repair it will be necessary to present it to the company's managers.
to contents ↑Contact the police
To vandals who mutilated your car, were punished by law, you must contact the police. Procedure:
- A call to 02 or 102 (not by the city number, the call center will respond more quickly). But remember, they’re not going to the “hooligan” first. Wait half an hour, if there is no order, call again.
- While you wait, take a photo and video from the scene, record any damage, pay attention to possible traces of the “artists”, look around: if there are any random witnesses of what happened and there are no video surveillance cameras on the surrounding buildings. The security service will give the record only to the police, but the guards can confirm in words the fact of someone being near the car.
- If you live in a large city where the city’s video surveillance system operates, go there and make a request to save the video archive, name the date and time. The application number sent to you by the operator, give the police.
- Write a statement to the police on call.
- Call and remind about your appeal so that you are not forgotten.
- Collect and save all documentation related to damage calculation, repair and restoration of your machine. Papers and checks come in handy if they find vandals. This is evidence of material damage to you.
In rare cases (if the attacker is familiar to the owner of the car: a neighbor who has been conflicting with him for a long time, a former partner in a life together, a competitor), justice can be restored: compensation for material and sometimes moral damage can be obtained.
