See some weird specs on your paint, and the texture feels a little rough? If you recently just had your house painted, or parked near a construction site, chances are the wind carried the particles of paint and they landed on your car.

Its more like than likely in a few places; glass, trim, paint, wheels, etc... it's definitely not a fun thing to see, let alone remove.

That being said, not all specks and surface texture is paint overspray, and can be other types of contaminents.

Leaving your car parked under a tree for a while will lead to the inevitable: tree sap. While ugly, this sap is also very acidic, which can cause severe damage to your paint underneath. The acidity eats away at your paint over time leaving marks in the paint, and if left untreated for a long time, can eat all the way through the paint, causing permanent damage.

Depending on how long the sap has been on the surface, and how much of it is on there, this can be a lengthy process and if done improperly, can damage the paint even more.

Using abrasives, like a scrubbing pad, magic eraser or razor blades, can severely scratch and mar the paint around the spot and thin out your clear coat, which is not only hard to look at, but can lead to clear coat failure down the road.

We have see this countless times and if gone too far, your only option is to repaint the surface. But there's a solution.

Using gentle techniques and products, we can safely work our way through the contaminants. Sometimes its easy like on your glass, but other areas like your trim can be tricky to remove and is not always 100% possible.

Usually, even with safe methods, there will be minor marring, or very small and thing scratches, in the paint. Due to this, we lightly polish the affected areas to remove the marring.

With that being said, if you aggressively scratch your car trying to do it yourself, we will need to do a more aggressive paint correction to remove or reduce those scratches.