Overspray on Cars at POCI Convention Show

[427.060]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070717/...Aob9dKw1AZ.3QA

James

[68l30]

Jeeze.....I thought the grease from the grills/blowing smoke at cars shows was a pain in the a$$...I would be very unhappy with paint in the wind..Wonder if anyone could smell it? See ya later...


Steve

[Charley Lillard]

That really sucks.

[Dave Rifkin]

That happened to one of my cars about 20 years ago. My parents had a house that was very near an old appartment high rise that was being sprayed with a beige epoxy. One day I was washing and waxing the car and noticed all of these very small, almost undetectable to the eye, spots of beige paint. I tried to wax them off but no luck.
By the time I noticed the specks of paint, the workers had already completed the job and left.
Being a kid, I never did do anything about it and eventually sold the car.

[mrrec]

There's some painters that were working upwind of the show that heard about this that have their eyes open very wide. As we speak, they are still feaverishly trying to scrub the red paint off of their hands......

[Donutblue]

That really does suck and should cause some who are sponsoring car shows to give a perimeter check of the area before hand for this type of construction renovation. May even be a new insurance liability issue for car show sponsors. ---Just food for thought.

[PeteLeathersac]

Yikes...what a nightmare come true!.

Sadly as everyone's estimating damages and playing the blame game, time's wasting away and with it perhaps the chances of getting this stuff off before it's too late to remove it without damaging the finishes?.

Instead of licking their wounds, a fella may be further off to get a sample of the product involved if possible but most of all quickly see what reducers or whatever may break it down and get to it?. The window of opportunity is quickly closing...if it hasn't already?.

~ Pete

[StriperSS]

The clay bar works well for removing that kind of overspray from paint. I've done quite a few for insurance companies.

[budnate]

Goof Off also works, my Vert was hosed down the day I came to look at, I asked why did you clear it with metallic,,guy said what??? we found a very light mist of house paint from a few doors up, he had moved it out of the garage before I got there, a full day with goof off and the buffer fixed it up, these guys are hopefully cleaning there rigs now before it bites in, there rigs were probably waxed well and it will lift with not to much work, the pain is getting a killer wax job back on after cleaning it with chemicals.

[427.060]

The paint was an epoxy paint. It's not easily removed and will probably cause damage that may not show up right now. The cars that will be hurt the most are the survivor cars.
James