overspray on car from bodyshop
 

its common that once your car comes out of the bodyshop, it has some overspray on the windshield and also on the body. I know that on the windshield you can just get a razor and clean it down with soapy water.

But how would you get rid of the overspray on the body of the car? Would claying the car and waxing it do the job?

Please let me know thanks

It is a common problem, but with that being said its the bodyshops responsibility to remove. I would use steel wool instead of a razorblade, and to remove the rest it needs to be polished. Which bodyshop was this?

claybar works for 80% of the overspray. But I'd bitch to the shop first to see what they'd offer to do.

thanks, the bodyshop is kirmac collision on east 1st ave.

Bring it back to the shop and ask them to remove it.

If you remove the overspray and damage the finishes you own the damage.
If the shop removes their overspray from your finishes they own inflicted damage.

DO NOT use a razor blade on the glass. It is possible to actually scratch the glass. Use steel wool ( 000 or 0000 grade ) or clay. For the paint, clay should remove the overspray. I would ask them to remove the overspray as it wasn't there when the car when into the shop.

steel wool for glass, clay or polish for paint

bring it back to kirmac and let them deal with it because they fucked up

What grade clay is best for removing overspray? Get to deal with this constantly at work and dont notice it until the car is clean. Then when i polish it i have to re clean it.

Razor blades work fine for the glass..all the detailers I've met at major dealerships use razor blades to remove paint, etc from the windows. Scrape smoothly from an angle and you should be fine. I've used razors to remove paint from the outside and glue from tint from the inside. It's worked great for every car I've done this on.

Dealership "detailers" wouldn't be a good reference on what to do with cars. Razorblades can be used on glass, however, if you don't know what you are doing, you will cause more damage.

razor blades work or steel wool for glass and clay bar for painted surfaces.

As stated, dealership detailers are not a good benchmark. If you can avoid the possibility of doing damage by using steel wool, why wouldn't you?

Works fine for me, so I'm not going to change that.

Thanks for the tip, ill make sure work orders some.

Same thing happened to me when I was at Bcit. Whole car got oversprayed.

Tried polishing with what they had there, mother claybar and finally meguiar which took care of it.

Its not normal at all, it is 100% the shop's fault and responsability