Removing cement from a car's paint...

[StatusRed]

I have my offroader (Daihatsu SporTrak) parked at the side of my Mum's house and the neighbouring property has been demolished with a new building going up, as I use this car for offroading at Pay'n'Play sites etc it gets pretty muddy so I originally assumed these splats were mud remanents from under the body getting flicked up after it rained or something, but today I tried with the pressure hose and these splats weren't budging. I then tried to remove with my finger and it was gritty exactly like cement.

Looking at the pattern of the splats it's obvious it came from the building site next door, so I confronted the head honcho who was there with the architect, the architect took my side and acknowledged this was obviously from the building site but the top guy kept saying something about ahh this contains calcium and we don't use this on our site so it must of come from somewhere else.. Obviously total b.s. so I kicked off a bit..

Anyway.... is there a "safe" way to get this cement off and ensure lacquer doesn't come off with it and won't start to rust?

I've seen there's cement removing chemical sprays but I'm worried this is going to damage the paint? An alternative I've seen is using white vinegar to slowly dissolve the cement but it sounds a very long winded laborious process.

Ideally I'd want them to pay for a professional to sort it, but I'm not even sure who would do this work, Chips Away perhaps?

Any advice appreciated, cheers.

[Jms153]

Spotted this stuff, not sure how good it is but they say it dissolves the cement fairly quickly

http://acleaningproduct.co.uk/produc...-cleaner-22oz/

Hope this helps

[StatusRed]

Originally Posted by Jms153

Spotted this stuff, not sure how good it is but they say it dissolves the cement fairly quickly

http://acleaningproduct.co.uk/produc...-cleaner-22oz/

Hope this helps

That looks promising thanks!

[skippyfox]

Originally Posted by Jms153

Spotted this stuff, not sure how good it is but they say it dissolves the cement fairly quickly

http://acleaningproduct.co.uk/produc...-cleaner-22oz/

Hope this helps

Not a bad product, used it a couple of years ago after the builders got a bit slapdash cleaning out their mixer and splashed a bit of cement on the back end of my Nissan Z300 (weekend toy) Looked a bloody mess but was soon sorted using the speedy clean. Needless to say I was deducting a fair chunk off their bill for the mishap..

[andy_d]

what was the outcome on this ?

[Bob Meadows]

Still working on it!!

[StatusRed]

Sent a formal demand for payment to the builder, at first they sounded reasonable but after sending through the 3 quotes (2 were about £2k, other was £850) they started asking a load of questions like why is it so much. In the end got tired of it so I've said pay for the lowest quote within 14 days or I'll take legal action.. We'll see what happens.

[Familyman 90]

Pressure washer?

[StatusRed]

Originally Posted by Familyman 90

Pressure washer?

Does not come off lol.

[DaveNP]

I would have been more worried the other way round, I used a pressure washer to get the mud off of my bicycle and started taking some of the paint off too, definitely go gently with a pressure washer on my car.