Help with stain removal

indyfto · Post by **indyfto** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:27 pm

I need some assistance in removing some petrol stains under my fuel flap. I've tried some polish and bug/tar remover but the stains are still noticeable. Any suggestions on what might work without stripping my paint?

Thanks...

scracy · Post by **scracy** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:56 pm

Have you tried a very fine cutting compound such as Mguires swirl remover?

Nickname · Post by **Nickname** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:09 am

I have this problem before as well, but it's luckly that I'm working for a car detailing company and the working buff it off for me, so I sure it can be remove after detailing !!! of course it will coz you more to to carry out detailing !!

But what I think it's worth to do detailing, since you buy some good brand polish, it cost you up to $30, and you not sure it work or not, but you pay $150-$180 for body detailing, then your whole car body will be shine and also solve your problem.!!!!!!!! Right ??

indyfto · Post by **indyfto** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:56 am

I've since got to it with the Meguiars Scratch Remover and it reduced it quite a bit further to the point where no one will notice it. Although I can still see the petrol stains there

. It'll most likely be detailed soon anyway so that shoud hopefully clean up the remainder.

Thanks.

Nickname · Post by **Nickname** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:09 pm

hello indyfto, which city are you from, I'm in sydney and I working in car detailing company, you can go and have a look our web site, of course you can go to any car detailing company you like, but I know that our company doing car detailing service over 13 years and also do mostly delarship prestige car, so I sure their quality is good, go and have a look this website www.inchcare.com.au ......... if you want more info, feel free to give me a call or e-mail inchcare@bigpond.com.au, my name is Jason.

G_A_V · Post by **G_A_V** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:51 pm

i had the same problem too, i think a lot of people will, cause the tops of our tanks are changed for ocmplience, and cheap palces dont do it properly and sometimes leaks petrol, but anyways a bit off regurlar polishing fixed it for me

Adriano · Post by **Adriano** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 5:15 pm

G_A_V wrote:i had the same problem too, i think a lot of people will, cause the tops of our tanks are changed for ocmplience, and cheap palces dont do it properly and sometimes leaks petrol, but anyways a bit off regurlar polishing fixed it for me

no wonder the top of mine came off!!!

i just glued mine, but i can still smell petrol while driving...

anyway to fix this?? sorry off topic here....

indyfto · Post by **indyfto** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:48 am

Sorry Nickname but I am in Brisbane so a little too far away for me. As I say it will be detailed pretty soon anyway to clean up the residual that I can't remove.

G_A_V · Post by **G_A_V** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:32 am

I have stains i can remove also, I have these black spots all over my front wheels, and I have tried soo many wheel cleaning products, a couple wheel polish products, and i cant seem to remove them !!
Here is a couple photos of what they look like i have no idear what cause them, and sorry about the quality of the photos they were taken by my phone

Any ideas on how to remove these and get my wheels looking new again ?

MADFTO · Post by **MADFTO** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:09 am

It's either tar or brake dust that has set.

Don't know what you'd use to remove it =)

TheSentry · Post by **TheSentry** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:31 am

Got similar stains on my stock rims as well. Breaks my heart.

Might think bout getting them refurbed for the price is right.

ruchi · Post by **ruchi** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:46 am

Have a chat to Scracy, he got his stock wheels polished and now they glisten in the sun! They look hot, and go very nicely with the Altezza lights and exhaust.

TheSentry · Post by **TheSentry** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:53 am

I think I just wet my pants.

Very nice indeed. Although I'm not the biggest fan of chrome they look a lot better than the normal look of the stock rims. I wonder if it'd be possible to get the rims done in a metallic grey finish, similar to those found on the current Type Rs.

G_A_V · Post by **G_A_V** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:03 am

how much ??

ruchi · Post by **ruchi** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:05 am

As they've been polished, rather than chromed, they're a little more subtle than the "chromies". They look superb and certainly grab your attention, but they're not as "in your face" as the chromies can be.

From memory it cost him around $150 per wheel. So they're also much better value than the chromies.

He also finished them off nicely by replacing the standard centre cover with the Mitsi logo on it, with a chrome one from an Evo (from memory, could be wrong on that).

Sentry, you could probably go over them with a coloured metal tint paint to get the effect you were after.

Adriano · Post by **Adriano** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:36 am

TheSentry wrote:I think I just wet my pants.

Very nice indeed. Although I'm not the biggest fan of chrome they look a lot better than the normal look of the stock rims. I wonder if it'd be possible to get the rims done in a metallic grey finish, similar to those found on the current Type Rs.

yeah thats the color i want (metallic grey finish) on my current shadow chrome wheels i posted on another thread... i got quoted $100/wheel, but i think hektiq said he can get it $200 for the set... just waitng for his contacts

G_A_V · Post by **G_A_V** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 6:33 pm

hmm does anyone reccomend a palce in sydney for scrubbing up the factory wheels to look as good as scracys ?

scracy · Post by **scracy** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 8:50 pm

Actually ruchi the caps are of a magna and cost around $20 each,I decided to polish the rims since its a cheap alternative to buying new rims and to my knowledge no one has done this before on an fto anyway.You could chrome them but it would cost more and ad weight to the rims.Easy to keep clean too just use glass cleaner! You could just repaint the rims which any panel shop can do.Any metal polisher could polish rims im sure someone in Sydney could do them.Might be a silly question but has anyone tried useing tar and spot remover on their rims?

Post by **kazbah** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:52 pm

And here's the silly answer, rub margarine into tar to disovle and wash off. Trust me on this it works!

JagerMarty · Post by **JagerMarty** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:06 pm

Hey Scracy,
where did you have the wheels done or did you do them yourself?
they look great!