Taking off 20years of tree goo.
Taking off 20years of tree goo.
Hey guys, not a camaro Q but maybe some poor bastard with a camaro has the same issue.
I bought a 70 C10 thats been sitting under a cedar tree for a very long time. Its not so much sap thats on it but a green, awful film that will not come off. The paint is single stage olive green with lots of metallic that should shine quiet well if I get this **** off. The truck looks like its flat green at best.
I have tried a few chemicals but they just smear it around. I think a buffing pad would just fill up instantly. You will end up with a green finger if you wipe it across the hood. You wipe it off then as soon as it drys it looks like crap again. I think as soon as you wash it the stuff migrates over onto the "clean area".
Rubbing it with my finger seems to work well, but thats a lot of surface to use my fingers on
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Hopefully you guys can help.
I bought a 70 C10 thats been sitting under a cedar tree for a very long time. Its not so much sap thats on it but a green, awful film that will not come off. The paint is single stage olive green with lots of metallic that should shine quiet well if I get this **** off. The truck looks like its flat green at best.
I have tried a few chemicals but they just smear it around. I think a buffing pad would just fill up instantly. You will end up with a green finger if you wipe it across the hood. You wipe it off then as soon as it drys it looks like crap again. I think as soon as you wash it the stuff migrates over onto the "clean area".
Rubbing it with my finger seems to work well, but thats a lot of surface to use my fingers on
.Hopefully you guys can help.
Well 1.5h, bunch of rubbing compound, 2 towels, pressure washer, and spray nine, the right side of my hood STILL look like ***. Better, but still terrible. What I need is a spray on, scrub, hose off thing. I dont think anything else will take it off. I will see what a detailing shop will do it for as I think the truck is worth spending up to $200 to make it shine as well as I think it can. Dunno if any of them will be dumb enough to try for less than that though
. Pics of my...... progress.
Big pics.
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. Pics of my...... progress.Big pics.
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Thanks guys. I found the perfect solution. It was quiet simple really. Required almost no effort from me at all. I just sent it to a detail shop and let them sort it out
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Turned out about what I had expected. The truck looks MUCH better in person now. Some (BIG) pics.
http://members.shaw.ca/surquip/70
http://members.shaw.ca/surquip/702
Also got them to clean the glass for me so I can actually see.
.Turned out about what I had expected. The truck looks MUCH better in person now. Some (BIG) pics.
http://members.shaw.ca/surquip/70
http://members.shaw.ca/surquip/702
Also got them to clean the glass for me so I can actually see.
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