| Author | Message | ||
     Im_joedirt |
Washed my bike the other day with a new degreaser. Big mistake, now i have run marks on all the painted surfaces. Have tried polish, armour all etc. Any suggestions apart from respray...  You can slightly see on the swingarm, but is all over the bike...... | ||
| Etennuly |
Your paint is powder coat. Not paint. These things have happened before. Waxes, polishes, Armor-All and degreasers are all not good for this surface. It is a pourous plastic semigloss coating that it's immediate outer surface will absorb these materials. You will not be able to wipe or buff them away. I would first attempt an easy approach with a pressure washer. What I mean is, low rpms wide spray nozzle and work in from a distance a little at a time to experiment with how much effort it will take to clean out the surface texture. Use the least amount of pressure that works, if it does work. Try it first on hard to see area of the swing arm. Good luck with that. It can be a difficult thing to recover from. | ||
| Greg_e |
Which exact degreaser did you use so that we can avoid it? | ||
| Im_joedirt |
It is an Australian product only available here so you guys have have not to worry. | ||
| Nightripper |
try and use 3M prepsol available at paint supply stores its made to remove grease and tar from painted surfaces priorto painting and it should not hurt the paineted parts on a buell, but don't get it on the plastic | ||
| Im_joedirt |
What about a clay brick rub back, then some sort of buff? I can clearly see it has kinda "soaked in" to the surface. | ||
| Terrys1980 |
I got some streaks on my swingarm from HotRims wheel cleaner. | ||
| Ourdee |
Ride it. | ||
| L8_br8ker |
try some Tide brand laundry soap, with water, and a soft sponge, leave it on, keep it good and wet for a few minutes, and give it a good rinse, Tide leaves no residue behind, when rinsed well, and will pick up other soaps, cleaners, solvents etc, and it wont do more dammage to the paint. I didnt use it on my bike, but used it with my buddy on his truck , to try to fix his wheels, after he left a wheel cleaner on them over night, and stained em badly. It took most of the stain out, after about 6 washings, and a lot of rinse with water, they dont look bad now, and we didnt scratch them up doing it. | ||
| Luxor |
Etennuly wrote "Your paint is powder coat." Nope, it's paint. Buell did not powder coat 12 parts, they painted the silver 9 parts graphite grey. I had the same problem after getting oil on my swingarm. The magic fix for me was 409. I've found that household stuff works better then automotive stuff for most cleaning problems. | ||
| Bumblebee |
I have also had good luck with Simple Green household cleaner, dilute it about 40:1 and it works a treat. |
