R129 paint dramas

[alpinab3]

This car been through a local had car wash and there streak stains on the bumpers which I cannot remove. The bumpers and panels are kind of a Mercedes two tone matte finish. I'm guessing this is from the chemicals they spray on the lower part of the car.

I'm worried it may have damaged the paint.

[rgv250ads]

Them places can use some pretty corrosive acid's to get the wheels and lower body clean, yikes.
a good corrective detailer will probably get that out for a few hours work. No need to worry about repainting or big £ just yet.

Google detailing in your area or county, send some pics to them on email, see what they say.

oh - and dont go back to the car wash! ;-)

[buzzer]

This does my head in. Our local car cleaning place is next to a garage I use for tyres. While I was having some tyres fitted a few weeks ago I was watching them clean cars...

first off they used a garden spray to spray cleaner on the wheels... fair enough, but I watched them fill the spray bottle out of a large container of Fleet Cleaner, they just tipped it in, and topped it up with water. That stuff is highly corrosive, they used FAR too much!

they then proceeded to use this on cars coming through, doing the wheels, sills and back panel and head lights... that must have removed any polish that was on there.

worst though, I saw the guy drop the sponge twice, pick it up off the floor and continue to use it on the cars!

I would NEVER take my car to one of those places, I would sooner leave it dirty.

Hope that comes off OP... try some mild abrasive polish and see if it comes up...

[alpinab3]

Thank you guys.

[Engineerino]

buzzer said:

This does my head in. Our local car cleaning place is next to a garage I use for tyres. While I was having some tyres fitted a few weeks ago I was watching them clean cars...

first off they used a garden spray to spray cleaner on the wheels... fair enough, but I watched them fill the spray bottle out of a large container of Fleet Cleaner, they just tipped it in, and topped it up with water. That stuff is highly corrosive, they used FAR too much!

they then proceeded to use this on cars coming through, doing the wheels, sills and back panel and head lights... that must have removed any polish that was on there.

worst though, I saw the guy drop the sponge twice, pick it up off the floor and continue to use it on the cars!

I would NEVER take my car to one of those places, I would sooner leave it dirty.

Hope that comes off OP... try some mild abrasive polish and see if it comes up...

I had my brakes replaced recently, due to the calipers becoming corroded and ultimately swelling / pushing the pads out of alignment - the guy who replaced them said 100% reason for this was the treatment the car washes use on wheels.

As above, some polishing for a while should remove most if not all.