Who is the detailer guy?

[Fats25]

Apologies in advance, but I know there is someone on here who gets a lot of pleasure from detailing cars and I've always been impressed with his threads, but cannot for life of me remember his username.

I have a problem - I drove through a puddle the other week when the truck was filthy. Left some big splashes up the underside of car and over the bodywork. Fast forward to today and my wife took the truck to be cleaned. That puddle and those splashes are full of cement



Fortunately the cleaning place realised and did not try and scrub, but I need to get it removed. Google suggests vinegar and water, but I'm sure the minds of PH and the member I refer to above have better knowledge than this.

Any thoughts most welcome. The less elbow grease needed the better!!

[XB70]

After_Shock - your services are needed!

[After_Shock]

That's a fair old amount of cement up the sides.

As mentioned vinegar in varying degrees of strength to try remove the stuff, the least amount of rubbing the better as it will literally scratch the paint to death underneath.

Soak the cement as much as you can with the vinegar and try washing it off with water from a hose, it wont just fall off and will no doubt take several goes. Unfortunately as its on the sides the vinegar will just run down the doors and be difficult to get it to eat into the cement.

The key here is patience and no rubbing, cement as you will know is horrendously abrasive and will very easily mess the paint up completely underneath.

If your lucky some polishing will remove the damage after, if not it will be a bodyshop to repair the damage. Don't panic too much using vinegar it wont remove the paint unless its allowed to dry in direct sunlight (even then it may only discolour a bit)

[Fats25]

This is going to be a nightmare isn't it?!

I'll give it a try myself when back on Saturday but I suspect this will end up being given to a body shop to sort out for me.

[After_Shock]

Fats25 said:

This is going to be a nightmare isn't it?!

I'll give it a try myself when back on Saturday but I suspect this will end up being given to a body shop to sort out for me.

Nightmare probably is the word, as much as id like to help out I cant see this being removed without damaging whats underneath and id rather not have that on me. Whoever takes it on with the care required you may well get away with it but it is going to be horrendously time consuming to do it.

[Fats25]

I spent a fun morning yesterday concentrating on getting the concrete/cement off of the bodywork. I used the distilled vinegar solution, which as when someone puts vinegar on their fish and chips at same table as me makes me feel ill (a childhood dare to drink a pint of malt vinegar has led to this!) was not very pleasant.

However the good news is it did the trick on the paintwork. It was actually far worse than the original photo I posted:-





Lots of tedious use of vinegar solution and paper towells:-







Resulted in this:-





That is the good news. The bad news is that underside of the truck is in a terrible state.





I need to find somewhere professional that can put the truck on ramps and give a full clean. If anyone has any contacts that could do this, it would be much appreciated, I am thinking anyone working in construction, may come across this situation with their cars/trucks.

I do have a friend of friend owns a concrete factory here, and am asking for any details they may have, but have yet to hear back.

[IanUAE]

Try the ENOC station next to MoE or the ENOC between Hessa Street and Umm Sequim road.

[Fats25]

IanUAE said:

Try the ENOC station next to MoE

They were the place my wife took to in the first place. As soon as they noticed it was concrete they never even attempted to remove, they were not comfortable touching it.

[steano]

surely the same theory with the vinegar would work ?

Put into a big spray bottle (from the garden centre) spray all underneath in vast amounts , leave a few minutes drive to the local jetwash ramp have them put it in the air and jet wash off ?

Youd have to do this in the evening when it was cool so it didnt dry back onto the underside, so if the jetwash was quiet you could ask to ramp it , spray on the vinegar solution wait 15 mins the ask underside to be jetwashed ?

[After_Shock]

Congrats on the paint and well done getting it off minus scratches.

Underneath should be as mentioned, same solution and a pressured wash underneath should do the trick, no worries on scratches with the underside.

[Fats25]

steano said:

surely the same theory with the vinegar would work ?

Put into a big spray bottle (from the garden centre) spray all underneath in vast amounts , leave a few minutes drive to the local jetwash ramp have them put it in the air and jet wash off ?

Youd have to do this in the evening when it was cool so it didnt dry back onto the underside, so if the jetwash was quiet you could ask to ramp it , spray on the vinegar solution wait 15 mins the ask underside to be jetwashed ?

I like the idea - but can you imagine explaining that?! I struggle to get the correct order at a restaurant in Dubai!

It may well be my reserve option.

[steano]

Ask an indian friend / indian speaking friend to wingman you and might be nice and easy

[Pennyroyal Tea]

That Raptor is far too clean anyway. Mine is a detailer's worst nightmare

They look better with a bit of scenery splashed all over them