Panel Wipe & Lacquer Woes

[Lund]

Replaced my number plates front & back on the Audi and used panel wipe to remove the stickiness of the previous sticky pads, however I now appear to have white hazed smears where I have wiped the residue area. Tried to get at it with the bog standard polish, to no avail. Looks to have clouded the lacquer, is it worth using some Freckler? - I'm trying not to make it any worse!

Cheers

[The Rustman]

Not sure if thats going to get rid of the bloom it depends how deep its gone.

I use WD40 on the glue residue it works really well

[paintman]

Sure you've not just smeared some of the glue around?
I'm surprised panel wipe has done that, wasn't actually thinners was it? (Or has a repair been done to the area with dodgy lacquer?)
WD40 as said usually works well.
I use brake & clutch cleaner to remove glue residue from caravans after removing decals & the glue on those can be a complete PITA to get off - not had a paint damage issue yet.
Can you cover the area with the new plate? If not then you may as well try polishing as the alternative would be a repaint.

[domster]

Do you mean FARECLA - as in G10, G3 compounds?

The paint will be very soft if attacked with solvent, so leave it a few weeks before compounding, just to be safe. If on a PU ie plastic bumper then strike through with soft paint is more of a hazard.

As previous posters say, identify whether glue residue or actual lacquer bloom first by allowing it to dry then reapplying mild solvent like WD40.

[Lund]

domster said:

Do you mean FARECLA - as in G10, G3 compounds?

Thats the stuff!

My panel wipe cloth may have been previously used as the thinners cloth

[domster]

Toluene thinners are pretty lethal... they could certainly 'rough' up the finish enough through softening to cause a misty or milky effect. You will need to wet flat and then polish this - but check when it has fully cured/hardened in a few days.

[kds keltec]

As paintamn said , seen panel wipe damage cheap smart repair 1k lacquer before .

Pictures of the area would help us all a bit .

kelly