Halloween. Spray paint on trunk and side windows. A forum search came up with suggestions of WD-40 or oven cleaner to remove spray paint. Anybody try it?

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1985 300D Turbo
"Evolution is God's way of giving upgrades" Francis Collins

I used orange hand cleaner the kind with pumas in it when some yahoo decided I needed black spray paint on my hood, headlights, and license plates. Be gentle with it. Don't push just gently rub and let the cleaner do the work. The paint came right off.

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Oven cleaner = bad idea. WD40 might work. I've successfully used acetone to get spray paint off of a car finish, but that was a fairly new car with an intact clear coat and a recent wax job.

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1983 300SD 467,000 km - 473 champagnermetallic

location: 34°5' N 106°53' W (Socorro NM, USA)

Denatured alcohol will also do the trick, just try on inconspicuos spot first.

A single-edge razor blade and 0000 steel wool will make short work of the stuff on the glass.

You gotta' be careful for the paint on the paint though (obviously!!). If your car has never been painted on (has factory paint) lacquer thinner will wash the spray paint off, and shouldn't harm the finish. Just don't do anything with anything in direct sunlight, or on a hot day. You wanna' be a little bit quick, too. Don't leave the thinner on the car any longer than absolutely necessary. Works great for tar, too!

Try a little spot way down on the fender or quarter panel, just to be sure the thinner won't wash the paint you want to keep off, too.

Jay.

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'83 300D (German spec.) 168k mi. - - Wolfgang (tucked snugly away for the winter!)
'87 300D 375k mi. - finally went over to "The Dark Side"
'87 300TD 225k mi.
Cannondale 66cm CAAD5 w/Campy/Jamis Aurora
Hujsak Custom Fixie/Landshark Track Shark Custom/Ahearne Custom 29'er

These products from ZEP work perfectly, the first two are non-solvent based are the best, but the last one which is a pre-wetted towel is solvent based and works great also. There are ZEP distributorships across the US and if you stop by one and talk to someone at the counter they will often give you a free sample to try.


http://www.zep.com/products/products.aspx?CatalogMode=1&CategoryID=3&SearchTerm=GRAFFITI%20REMOVER

PROD.# 7111

PROD.# 0001

PROD.# 1412

Recently had the other car sprayed from just behind the windshield to the rear end of the car. The path was right thru the middle of the windows and the paint used was a light grey in color. Acetone worked wonders for the windows and the light grey was so close to the body color and was put on from a car in motion ?? that it does not show on the painted areas. So it was left alone. Obviously this wasn't a Benz, and is 21 yrs old, so...........

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1961 190Db retired
1968 220D/8 325,000
1983 300D 164,150

dude, that is jacked. if someone did that to my baby benz and i caught them, it'd be LIGHTS OUT!

course when a young asian girl front-ended my 190, all i did was follow her and call the cops. guess i'm all talk

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steel wool will etch the glass--i'd go with razor blade and paint thinner only on glass

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what is it about halloween that gives people the license to egg, teepee, spray paint, and other misbehaviours? i mean, that one time i was in junior high, and my friend encouraged me to go to the mall with him and drop eggs on people's cars from the third story of the parking lot--totally uncool in retrospect. but totally fun while i was doing it. before we got caught by the cops, that is.

heh, we were minors, alls we got was suspended from the mall. haha

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acetone will work, but take the paint off too. use gasoline on a rag. happened to my f150 last year. if it has a coat of wax on it, good chances are its going to come off very easily. not sure about the plastic lenses though. but the paint is going to be okay.

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1985 300TD Turbo Diesel Wagon
273,000 miles

I was pissed. I wasn't the only one that got nailed that night though. Now the car looks like this. So no worries.

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i call it the spruce green goose

course we don't see from this angle whether the paint was gotten rid of or not

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Steel wool - quadruple ought - won't harm the glass in any way, fool.

Jay.

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On the road, currently:
'83 300D (German spec.) 168k mi. - - Wolfgang (tucked snugly away for the winter!)
'87 300D 375k mi. - finally went over to "The Dark Side"
'87 300TD 225k mi.
Cannondale 66cm CAAD5 w/Campy/Jamis Aurora
Hujsak Custom Fixie/Landshark Track Shark Custom/Ahearne Custom 29'er

Whatever you do, sooner is better than later.

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