Hardened chewing gum on paintwork.

[bigbadbikercats]

What it says in the title...

Just discovered that some Neanderthal has smeared evil pink gunk on the (shiny, body coloured) front bumper of my Audi A4. Not sure how long it's been there (it's mostly my wifes car these days, and I only ever seem to see the car parked nose in to the garage door!) but it's well and truly set...

Autoglym intensive tar remover didn't touch it, I also tried holding a sponge soaked in (very!) hot water against it for a while to see if that would soften it but no joy - anybody got any ideas before I enter solvent escalation mode, and possibly do something ill-advised?

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JG

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bigbadbikercats said:

What it says in the title...

Just discovered that some Neanderthal has smeared evil pink gunk on the (shiny, body coloured) front bumper of my Audi A4. Not sure how long it's been there (it's mostly my wifes car these days, and I only ever seem to see the car parked nose in to the garage door!) but it's well and truly set...

Autoglym intensive tar remover didn't touch it, I also tried holding a sponge soaked in (very!) hot water against it for a while to see if that would soften it but no joy - anybody got any ideas before I enter solvent escalation mode, and possibly do something ill-advised?

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JG

You could try softening it with either halogen lights or even a hairdryer? then pick as much as you can off as possible then try the AG itr

[belleair302]

Freeze it I kid you not with some Comma freeze spray and it should just lift off. Clay any remnants with an autoclay and then polish / wax the surface.

[bigbadbikercats]

Two good (i.e. easy and unlikely to do further damage!) suggestions there. Thanks, guys, I'll give these a try next time I'm home...

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Jonathon.

[tlracing]

A good solvent for chewing gum (so might work for bubble gum too) is WD40. No, seriously, it works!