Mothers Clay bar
 

I had the Corvette at the base Autohobby shop for a fee months earlier this year. I installed the Raptor (wing) as well as doing some other jobs to help with the future cage installation. One of the other patrons was doing some metal cutting with a circular grinding wheel and got a lot of metal dust on my car. Obviously I was upset about it. Truth is my paint is very beat from all the track use so I didn't make a big deal of it. I finally got around to washing the car and quickly realized that the dust would come off and two turned brown with rust. Imagine a plastic corvette with a patina. I started budgeting for a paint job (aka beer for Adam and tell him his car is fast). Then I remembered that I had a Mothers Clay bar kit (Bar and detail spray) in the closet. It took about three hours, but I was able to get the metallic dust off the car completely. There are some other little marks, unfortunately it did nothing for the track rash or the burn marks. Anyways I wanted to share this one because for the $20 cost it's worth a shot before painting.

In the old days you coulda called the Lord God King of clay bars .. one Mr. Sean Plunkett.

If the paint is still thick you can use some 2000 grit wet/dry sand paper and lightly wet sand it. Then polish it with a buffer to bring the paint back to a shine. I had to do that with the hood on Explorer after doing the SAS.

Playdoh works too

Thanks for the playdoh tip. It pretty much came off to I'm done with it. I will take it to my carwash guy and have him detail it. Some point next year it is getting dipped.

Haha :beer:

That's awesome! It's tough to beat the longevity of factory paint. If you can save it you should.

I'd avoid wet-sanding and buffing it, that just wears the clear coat down thinner. Id rather have it a little less shiny and a little more scratch/ chip resistant.