I haveoverspray of white on my black sapphire anyone else have overspray issues?

[rosierobins2003]

Hey i just took my Z in for its semi annual detailing and was told it had white over spray on it. It must be from being near an area at work, one day they decided to paint by my car. I thought there was a funny film on it, but with the sapphire, its hard to tell. Anyways, its been a month or two and it wasn't noticeable to me until the detailer said "wow, you have white overspray all over your car".

Anyways, just an extra $100 bucks and its looking good again.

Detailing it twice a year does wonders..its new, its new.

Rosie

[Hawkeye]

I can't wait for it to stop snowing here. We got 8.5 inches last night

As soon as the sand is off the streets my Zed is coming out to play and get a good detailing!

[rosierobins2003]

boy, I'm freezing an its no where near snowing here. i'm such a fair weather person.

[roh92cp]

Winter sucks when you have a z4 roadster in the garage. Car was put up in Late Oct and the snow won't be gone until late April. Northern Maine its like frozen tundra here.

I detailed my car in the garage, clay bar and wax and found white paint in the wheel wells and some on the back bumper splashed up from the wheels. I thought that buffing your car too often will wear the clear coat off.

[takedown8]

That's funny, Rosie, 'cause I have the exact same thing. I took mine into the detailer and he mentioned some white paint dots. I've seen them myself when I wash the car. You gotta look closely to see them, but they don't come off easily, that's for sure.

My suspicion is that they come from the white paint used to divide the roads.

[SoCalSizzle]

Originally Posted by takedown8

My suspicion is that they come from the white paint used to divide the roads.

Are you sure its not that white stuff that falls from the Ontario sky??

Rosie, are you flirting with the boys up north again?

[RussRamz]

A good clay bar should take care of it.

[rc'Z]

Ditto on the clay bar . Clayed mine when it was only 6 weeks old. Didn't want wax over junk on the paint.

[rosierobins2003]

Originally Posted by SoCalSizzle

Are you sure its not that white stuff that falls from the Ontario sky??

Rosie, are you flirting with the boys up north again?

Just trying what i can to get warm again...its soooooooo COLD. And I'm so ALONE.

[rosierobins2003]

Originally Posted by SoCalSizzle

Are you sure its not that white stuff that falls from the Ontario sky??

Rosie, are you flirting with the boys up north again?

Well, I just heard that we bring our personal property on to company property at our own risk. They'll not pay for the extra cost in detailing it twice to get rid of the over spray.

Just trying what i can to get warm again...it COLD.

[takedown8]

Originally Posted by SoCalSizzle

Are you sure its not that white stuff that falls from the Ontario sky??

Rosie, are you flirting with the boys up north again?

It seems very possible...especially given how cold it's been in the last few days, the snow would never melt!

Unfortunately, theose little dots are still there in the summer. They're very, very small and not noticeable unless you look very, very closely. My detailer and I have both tried claying, but they don't come off. He's also tried the bug & tar remover to no avail. One may need the orbital or a very, very light sand.

[dngrCharlie]

My paint seems good but what, exactly, is overspray? And what should I look for? Or, since I haven't noticed should I not learn what it looks like? As they say, ignorance is bliss!

As for the weather... here in Houston it is about 45F and sunny. A gorgeous day for a convertible! Actually, since I will ride with the top down in weather as low as 40F the only season where you really can't go top down is in the Summer where the humidity makes outdoors unbearable. The other three seasons are nice.

[rosierobins2003]

Originally Posted by dngrCharlie

My paint seems good but what, exactly, is overspray? And what should I look for? Or, since I haven't noticed should I not learn what it looks like? As they say, ignorance is bliss!

As for the weather... here in Houston it is about 45F and sunny. A gorgeous day for a convertible! Actually, since I will ride with the top down in weather as low as 40F the only season where you really can't go top down is in the Summer where the humidity makes outdoors unbearable. The other three seasons are nice.

Hope the guys can be more technical in their answer. I just know that I did notice something on the surface of the paint, but I figured it was there all along. Cause I have the black sapphire, it was hard to see as there are sparkly specks in the paint. But white overspray on a black car shoulda been easy to see. I received the overspray cause I was parked near where they were spray painting garbage cans and it drifted, thus OVER spray. Had I known they would paint i'd not have parked there.

[Hawkeye]

Oversparay consists of little particles of paint. Usually if spray painting there is overspray around the ouside edges of where you were spraying.

If you were to spray paint a treehouse when it was really windy you would probably be covered in overspray... a lot worse than your car.

I have not noticed any overspray on my car either...and I do look closely.

[dngrCharlie]

Originally Posted by rosierobins2003

Hope the guys can be more technical in their answer. I just know that I did notice something on the surface of the paint, but I figured it was there all along. Cause I have the black sapphire, it was hard to see as there are sparkly specks in the paint. But white overspray on a black car shoulda been easy to see. I received the overspray cause I was parked near where they were spray painting garbage cans and it drifted, thus OVER spray. Had I known they would paint i'd not have parked there.

Gotcha. I thought it had something to do with a bad paintjob from the factory!