Concrete all over the front
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Originally Posted by BigMike' post='693836' date='Oct 15 2008, 08:17 PM
claybar -- lots of lub and clay will get it off.....
Will report it for a police examination and a insurance claim.
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I had something similar happen to my old Maxima......
neighbors had their driveway sprayed with a concrete mix to give the driveway a patterned look. My car spent the night out in our driveway the night before some 75-80 yards away, and it had rained too. Then it sat there the next day, while they had the work done to their drivway. Long story short my car had beaded up from the rain, then sat there in the sun while they were doing the work, and apparently there was some concrete dust that settled in the beads of water and baked on. When I discovered it it was too late and it wouldn't come off. I ended up using a clay bar on the hood, roof, and trunk deck, and tops of bumpers. Took a lot of elbow grease..the spots came off, but it was too late for the clear..the lime in the concrete dust ate through the clear....so my almost perfect "midnight blue" paint was toast and now looked like swiss cheese.
Hopefully you won't have the damage I did.....good luck with it
neighbors had their driveway sprayed with a concrete mix to give the driveway a patterned look. My car spent the night out in our driveway the night before some 75-80 yards away, and it had rained too. Then it sat there the next day, while they had the work done to their drivway. Long story short my car had beaded up from the rain, then sat there in the sun while they were doing the work, and apparently there was some concrete dust that settled in the beads of water and baked on. When I discovered it it was too late and it wouldn't come off. I ended up using a clay bar on the hood, roof, and trunk deck, and tops of bumpers. Took a lot of elbow grease..the spots came off, but it was too late for the clear..the lime in the concrete dust ate through the clear....so my almost perfect "midnight blue" paint was toast and now looked like swiss cheese.
Hopefully you won't have the damage I did.....good luck with it
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Originally Posted by Ricracing' post='693849' date='Oct 15 2008, 08:29 PM
And after that the paintwork is gone!
Will report it for a police examination and a insurance claim.
Will report it for a police examination and a insurance claim.
Thanks once again all, especially ktlocklear.
My cars hood and bumper etc. will be repainted! Only 5,700 km's on it.
Damned I'm pissed...
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sorry to hear about your ride,,i know how it feels damn trucks 
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Originally Posted by Ricracing' post='693736' date='Oct 15 2008, 11:51 AM
Damned concrete trucks. Half the front and hood of my car is sprayed with concrete.
It happened last weeks Thursday (at 1.30 pm) leaving a red light as the third car.
I didn't see the concrete on the road at all, but did hear a patter on the right hand side.
Well ok, I thought, it’s only sand.
But today, a week later, when I had my car washed the guys told me that there is some debris in the front that don’t come off.
The guys said, that they will not take responsibility for scraping it off.
For two hours I have tried to clean it with solvents, Fairy and car wax, but it seems that the damned concrete
has merged in to the paint.
Can anyone help?
It happened last weeks Thursday (at 1.30 pm) leaving a red light as the third car.
I didn't see the concrete on the road at all, but did hear a patter on the right hand side.
Well ok, I thought, it’s only sand.
But today, a week later, when I had my car washed the guys told me that there is some debris in the front that don’t come off.
The guys said, that they will not take responsibility for scraping it off.
For two hours I have tried to clean it with solvents, Fairy and car wax, but it seems that the damned concrete
has merged in to the paint.
Can anyone help?
on West 42nd street in manhattan there's one construction site then another on West 38th street. The same thing happened I didn't see the guy washing the concrete truck and didn't even realize that stuff all over my car until maybe the next day or two later. It was hard and crusted onto the car, you don't want to do anything to agitate the spatter like scrape it off or rub it of f it will ruin your paint, beleive me I know. I used a pressure washer held almost parallel to the surface with a fine beam. you will see when the beam hits the concrete particles and you will notice when it's gone from looking at the water. it's tedious but it will prevent scratching the paint.
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Originally Posted by wlkonacloud' post='694623' date='Oct 16 2008, 02:34 PM
Man, sorry to hear about that.
Concrete is a bitch - will take the car for painting.
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