suncream on silver paintwork....

[Roverload]

My children / heathens, have managed to permanently stain the paint on our family wagon, its silver and the hand prints are white and very detailed i must say! I have had it suggested to me that it's the sun lotion on their hands that caused this. I'm not exactly devastated about it as it is the family beater but i would like to trade it in against an avantime one day so, does anybody know if there's a way of getting these marks out? So far super resin fades it but it comes straight back once the polish wears off. Any experiences here?



little darlings!

[paintman]

On the odd customers car with this I've just run a compounding mop with farecla G3 over it & job done.

[Defcon5]

Is it old wax residue that the sun cream has reacted with? Surely it won't react with the paint itself?

Fairly liquid or something may shift it

[Roverload]

Think it might actually be the paint, I've seen it on 4 cars now, the silver Picasso I bought, mother in laws silver civic, a neighbours silver ford galaxy and now my almera. Best crack out the cutting compound, I'll take pics through the different stages and update as and when!

[ch427]

My missus hand cream used to play havoc with my old passats silver paintwork but a decent polish used to get it back looking good again.

[Locknut]

I have this problem on a silver BMW. I have read up on the problem on several fora (forums?)and found numerous suggested solutions. Unfortunately none of them seem to work, at least not for anybody other than the author.

In my own case I have found that Simoniz Universal Colour Restorer combined with plenty of elbow grease gets rid of the marks, but they gradually come back again over the space of 6 to 12 months. I did mine successfully about a year ago and I'm due to do them again soon.

[7even]

All the cars ive seen it on seem to have used a ceramic clear, BM, VAG, Merc, etc
I don't know if that's the issue but that's where, in my personal views, have seen the problem.
As to the removal of it, some of the "resolutions" that are posted on the forums are only masking the problems as opposed to actually getting rid of it once and for all.
A flat back of the top coat with w/d and a three stage polish is probably the answer to most, although I have had to attack some with upto 800 grit, which is not something I would advise to any DIY'er. Two "A classes" I have actually had to paint to remove it, because the top coat was so thin.

So if you want to do it yourself beware, otherwise a good mobile repairer will be able to sort you out.

[Craikeybaby]

I've used a cleaner polish before, but that was the day after the mark had been left.