Huge drops of PINE SAP that won't budge!
 

My fiancee' has some huge drops of pine sap on her car, and they're STUCK! I very wrongly throught a clay bar would get them off, but the sap just laughed at the clay bar. :jest: These are BIG drops, like 3/4 the size of a nickel.

Any suggestions on what to get them off with?

Ben T.

Turpentine or mineral spirits (turpentine being the
volatile fractions of pine sap to begin with). May
want to remove as much as you can of the bulk
and use solvents only on the residual part. Soak
a paper towel with it, press it onto the sap and
lay a piece of aluminum foil over that to slow
evaporation.

Don't use any more aggressive solvents.

The clay bar will take them off, but you'll have to work at it. Had some sap marks on my son's 68' Firebird Convertible that had been there for years...just kept lubricating and using clay bar....slowly but surely they completely came off.
You won't notice much of a difference each time, but if you keep doing it it will eventually wear it down and remove them. JMHO

This is my first post here, but I couldn't pass it up. As for the SAP, I had the exact same problems on my Silverado SS. What I finally was told to try was "Rain-X", yep the stuff you put on your windshields. Took it right off, had to do a few applications to the bigger globs of sap, but it worked. Saved me from having the top of my SSS repainted.

I used good 'ole WD40 on my mom's Bravada. Her hood was spotted with old pine sap from where she has to park her car at work. Stuff came right off with no damage at all to surface. Miracle in a can, you bet.

Rubbing alcohol is the best way to go. You better not let those sit too long or they'll mess up your paint.

Thanks guys. I didn't try the WD yet, and I'm going to try it first as I'd rather not use a paint solvent on the gf's paintjob.

I've spent countless hours (the entire WEEK before I started college in '01) getting epoxy overspray off my old truck with a claybar, and I've always sang its praises, but I do not believe this is a job for the clay bar. The spots are too big, and there are too many.

Jimmyblue's suggestion of Turpentine seems like a very logical choice. I'm going to use it as a last resort.

So, to recap; I'm going to try,

1. WD40
2. Rain-X? Why not! I'll give it a try. :)
3. Turpentine

I'll let everyone know how it did. There are plenty of spots to try each solvent on. :jest:

Thanks for the help guys.

Ben T.

rubbing alchohol....... goo gone.....

Let some WD soak in for a bit.

im was gonna suggest goo gone or something. ive used that on paint with no harsh affects.....


also make sure when ur tryin to remove them, your not pushing hard on the spots and such. that will imbed more shit into ur paint. like when people have bugs/etc on their car, they scrub away at them pretty hard.....DONT do that.

tree sap and tar remover, made by Turtle Wax

This spring I parked under a nectarine tree, and the passenger's side front was HEAVILY splattered with sap. Didn't notice it for a day (just doing the work-home slog, getting home at night, parking in a dim parking garage). What a mess. Turpentine barely put any dent in it-would've taken foreEVER to get it off that way. Same with rubbing alcohol. What did work great was foaming carpet cleaner, what I normally use for cleaning the car's interior carpet. Didn't affect the finish one bit, cleaned it all up really fast and easily.


-sectari
-sectari

I have a little bit of sap on my car to. Im going to go try our some things and report back.