Hello all, as some of you may or may not know I recently had my w115 240D painted(midnight/navy blue-ish), and when I finally got it back from the body shop after two and a half months (I was in a rear end collision so they had to fix that, which took a while) the car was amazingly clean! They were even kind enough to give me some mystery spray wax (mystery because it was in an unlabeled bottle) which I used on a fairly regular basis. Despite my efforts to keep the paint immaculate looking, apparently my mom's sprinklers are not the directional kind and spray in all directions, and decided to leave water spots all along the driver's side of the car, and it has slowly gotten spots over the rest of the car as well. I tried to keep them off with with more wax, but it didn't work. I suspect they gave me some kind of spray detailer that didn't really have any wax in it.
Today I thought I would try to maybe get some of the spots off, so I washed the car thoroughly, dried it off, then pulled it in the car to begin work. So far I have tried a clay bar with some Mothers spray stuff (whatever came with the clay), wiping it down with distilled white vinegar diluted down (1:3 vinegar:water), alternating between the two, etc. I am having limited success.
Is there some other trick I should know about, or am I going to just need to bite the bullet and take it to somebody to remove the spots, or use some kind of mild abrasive polish on it myself?
The spots are very bothersome and I'm not sure how much longer I can live with them. (People would flag me down to say how clean the car was right after I bought it, not any more though
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Here's a picture before spots, I don't really have any after and its too dark out to take any tonight