I parked under a freshly pruned tree last night.

My bonnett now has lots of large lumps of tree sap stuck to it, I used a hot water jet wash on it & the lumps just melted a bit, moved about and thats all.

How do I get this stuff off the car with out using 1 gallon of SUL & a match ??

I dont mind using some elbow grease I just want this muck off.

PLEASE HELP

 

I have the same problem, as I park under lime trees - no option.

The car has been waxed from new and I just use hot water and car shampoo.

To get it off, try hand hot water. Once off, wax it and you'll find it's no problems whatsoever to remove in the future.

 

And if that doesn't work, try the cleanse.

But I'd think that hot water with car shampoo and elbow grease will be the best

 

Cheers

Job for tonight, & pruning the tree at the roots.

 

Some sympathy as last week I drove through a spillage of gloss paint which sprayed up the side of the car and parked at a party over the weekend a large amount of candle wax got spilled on the car. Very hot water, shampoo and rubbing hard with a sponge seems to transfer most of the sticky gunge on to the sponge. A mild cleanse such as WW #1 will shift whatever marks are left.

 

Tree sap!!! AARGHH!!!
The devil's work!!!!!!!!

 

Try any tar remover or if that fails, t-cut the barsteward. I cant remember which one does it best, But one of them does.
astraboy.

 

You can get hold of mesh covered sponges now that reduces the amount of elbow grease required. + there not abrasive. Worked ok on my old White PUG and the copius amounts of suicidal flies on my scoobies bonnet.

Cheers

Neal

 

Clay bar, clay bar, clay bar....

 

Try white spirit. Don't rub too hard. Then wax polish.

 

Brillo pad and Jif.

Bye Bye tree sap

robski

 

Clay bar, clay bar!!!! Its so easy and so simple and astonishingly quick.

 

I'd have to recommend the clay bar.
I know when I did my car, it took all the rough crap off the paint and left it feeling like the proverbial baby's botty
Top product.

Steve

 

Go on then,

What is a Clay bar ?? is it anything like a mars bar ??

How does it work ??

Who sells it, how much etc etc etc.

I got most of it off last night but the is still an trace of sticky.

 

Mark U - I use your clay bar to remove tree sap, the only thing that concerns me is I end up having to do 90% of the car (You'd think I parked in a forest). Am I stripping all the wax off each time I do this? Should I really re-cleanse and re-wax the whole car?

Help!!