Help! Sunscreen marks on paint!?

Whytar · 25 Nov 2015

A clean cloth sprayed with a little bit of WD40 will also work. You just have to make sure you wipe it all off and then reseal...

GT4 · 25 Nov 2015

Apparently not in this case.

Although it could have been worse, they could have draw a massive ****.

askgeez · 25 Nov 2015

opcorn:

Alex · 26 Nov 2015

With the information 1st given in the thread I thought the 1st post summed it up fine.

GT4 said:
Try in this order:
1) Car shampoo
2) Washing-up liquid (you will need to reseal paint after this, ie polish/wax)
3) White Spirit (which you will need to remove with 1 or 2 and in either case reseal)

I'm shocked that the sunscreen was on the car for so long if the owner washed it properly.

I suppose it's a similar situation to birdpoo burning lacquer off (after folk leaving it to bake on for a month).

toohey · 26 Nov 2015

alex yates said:
With the information 1st given in the thread I thought the 1st post summed it up fine.

GT4 said:

Try in this order:
1) Car shampoo
2) Washing-up liquid (you will need to reseal paint after this, ie polish/wax)
3) White Spirit (which you will need to remove with 1 or 2 and in either case reseal)

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I'm shocked that the sunscreen was on the car for so long if the owner washed it properly.

I suppose it's a similar situation to birdpoo burning lacquer off (after folk leaving it to bake on for a month).

I guess its a bit like your bird poo analogy, with a few exceptions, firstly the hand prints are almost impossible to see when they first go on the car - this isn't transfer from a massively over applied sunscreen lathered kid. This is transfer from a child that had sunscreen applied an hour or two earlier. If i'd seen the transfer on the door and handle as i strapped him into his car seat and shut the door i would have cleaned it immediately. The car would have then been washed within 7-10 days with warm soapy water - (two buckets etc etc) Its been washed regularly since then with no sign of the handprints - i have now been away for 5 weeks and my wife has been giving the car an occasional run out otherwise its been parked up. She sent me the pictures a couple of days ago and here we are......

For all of you with unblemished cars please take care in the summer when sunscreen is out and about - you basically can't see it until its tool late. I have spoken to a local bodyshop who do a lot of high end bentleys etc and they are going to try and cut the lacquer back enough to remove it without going through it, but they say sunscreens nano particles eat into the lacquer and are almost impossible to remove - i.e. they will keep eating further into the top coat and then the base coat unless all traces are removed. I will keep searching for an alternative before cutting the top coat back but so far the internet searches are all coming back with things that have already been tried by a colleague working out here in the US with me. He eventually gave up on the car that he had damaged by sunscreen and traded it in for a new one.....

I will report back as to how the problem is eventually cured........

Alex · 26 Nov 2015

As stated earlier.......moral of the story.....don't use sunscreen. Fiendish stuff :yuk:

GT4 · 26 Nov 2015

Technically, Baz Luhrmann was right.

nigel99 · 28 Nov 2015

alex yates said:
and the moral of the story is........don't use sunscreen.

Or don't have kids?

Alex · 28 Nov 2015

Well I didn't want to say that :wink:

But even so, why folk are hell bent on smearing their kids in that stuff is beyond me. They're that obsessed with it, we've got kids in the UK getting rickets & vitamin D deficiency. It's not like we're living in Africa or Australia. There can be nothing better for a child than the correct amount of exposure to the sun.

No child (self included) in my family ever got subjected to that cr4p and it never did us any harm. I hate to think what other effects it does to a persons skin, blocking pours, etc.

........and as for what it does to paintwork on Porsches :thumbdown: :grin:

It's all scaremongering marketing and I can't believe people fall for it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/hea...nosed-with-rickets-after-using-sunscreen.html

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/jan/22/sharp-rise-vitamin-a-deficiency

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1375894/Why-covering-child-suntan-lotion-rickets.html

http://www.childalert.co.uk/article.php?articles_id=457

http://www.scotsman.com/news/increase-in-rickets-linked-to-overuse-of-sunscreen-1-3747234

http://news.nationalpost.com/health...tamin-d-deficiency-rise-in-rickets-u-k-doctor

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21678784

GT4 · 28 Nov 2015

To be fair, it's not for drinking either

nigel99 · 28 Nov 2015

If you cover the rest of the car in sunscreen too, no one would notice the marks on the door :thumb:

Alex, I don't think there are many Porsche owners with vitamin d deficiency because of the amount of time we spend outside washing our cars!

GT4 · 28 Nov 2015

Always tick the sunroof option.

madge · 2 Feb 2016

Sunscreen marks on paint are an easy fix. Don't panic.

As already stated they won't wash off, you just need a light polishing compound. Gtechnic P1 is my favourite for this job (or Maguires Ultimate Compound is good if you want something you can buy in Halfords).

Use a hand-polishing foam pad, it shouldn't even need machine polishing.

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