Not sure how to title this thread but I need help to figure out the best way to remove some yellow paint from the wife's truck.

She was on the highway yesterday and they had just painted the yellow stripes and she (some how ) touched them with the driver side tires and it splattered in the wheel wells, on the tube steps and the very lower part of the body panels. It's not real bad but it is very noticeable.

 

After more internet searching it looks like lacquer thinner for about 1 minuet at a time will soften it up then wipe off and repeat. Does this sound like it's right?

 

I use a lot of lacquer thinner and it will remove the paint period. Meaning it will also soften the clear coat and leave marks from wiping or just splashes, if you value your paint job be very very careful. Have you tried a hand held car wash or a pressure washer on medium, my wife had her white car sprayed with roofing tar, very small specs and the hand held wash was able to remove them.

 

I'll give it a try. This stuff is really on there. I tried to rub it with my hand and it is thick and really on there good. The truck is a 2013 so I really hate to screw up the paint or clear coat!!

 

from ol school,
hair dryer on it to get it to release (2 minutes or so) then the green scrubber thingy, you can feel it push off with the pressure of your finger. then some wax to clean it out, then buff for gloss. this is for the newer vinyl based traffic paint...

 

WD40 or the tar remover you can buy in walmart most of the road paint is water based my son works for the the highway dept and that is what he said to use

 

I have a flexible plastic scrapper that I tried inside the fender and it seems to work a little. It was getting dark out so I will try tomorrow morning.
Thanks for asking your son!!
I will try that too after the scrapper. If I can get the big stuff off the WD40 or tar remover will hopefully get the small stuff and then I can wax and buff it back to new!

 

Lacquer thinner or acetone will not hurt properly cured paint or clear coat. I wouldn't use it on the plastic though.
I've used both to remove road tar, adhesive residue, tree sap etc. all it does is strip the wax. Even on cheapo Earl Scheib paint jobs.

 

Try some Goo-Gone or Desolve-it. They are citrus based cleaners. Got paid 200 dollars to clean a spray painted Toyota truck up once. It got it off the vinyl strips, rims, everything.

 

I used to work for a roofing company and had to clean up alot of their messes, I used a lot of laquer thinner and I also had a big tube of hand cleaner that took it off easly.

Fast foreward 20 years and I just bought my Dodge Ram and I was cruising down the street where they doing some road surfacing and as I went by the the equipment something explodes and sprayed hot 500* asphalt on the right side, front and top of my truck.

The company said I could take it off using mayonaise, the oil in it disolves the asphalt and leaves it finger lickin good.

It really did take it off but my insurance company had the entire truck stripped to the bare metal and repainted, the glass, rubber and plastics were.also replaced.

I always wondered what happened when you drove over a freshly painted line.