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how to remove old hardened pine pollen from truck paint
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:33 AM
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my old '03 mostly sits, parked in front of a stand of pine trees. It's got some thick, hardened old pine pollen welded on the paint, particularly in the door jams. How to remove? Bug & tar remover? 50-50 vinegar and water?
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Re: how to remove old hardened pine pollen from truck paint
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:36 AM
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that stuff looks pretty awesome, but I forgot to mention that
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:42 AM
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the solution needs to be really low on the effort required.
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18 minutes. Thought it would be quicker than that.***
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:54 AM
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50 gallons of goo gone.***
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:40 AM
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If you're brave, ethanol hand sanitizer works better than GooGone
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:45 AM
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I had this protective plastic coating since I bought my car on the hood and front end. it ended up collecting more bugs than it prevented. So I pulled it off. Evidently they used some pretty strong adhesive, and GooGone would not cut it.
I had some old hand sanitizer laying around from early rona days and with just a slight rubbing the stuff came right off. Didn't hurt the paint either. But it was one of those rona hand sanitizers that the apple juice people made and it was like 80% ethanol or something like that. NOT the 63.5% of the stuff they use now. It was either ethanol or ethyl alcohol, I forget. And 80%.
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I may still have something similar around here.
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:51 AM
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also have some De-Solv-it Contractors Solvent and Pro Strength Goof Off, which will get you a buzz while you use it.
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I think this is the bottle. Correction, said plain "alcohol".....
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:55 AM
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Think you can still buy this stuff, not sure. But this was the stuff. Worked well where GooGone did nothing.
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winner winner chicken dinner.
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Apr 29, 2024, 10:36 AM
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found two Covid-era alcohols, 91% isopropyl for making your own hand sanitizer, and 80% alcohol hand sanitizer made by Devil's Backbone brewery. The hand sanitizer also contains glycerin, hydrogen peroxide, and water. So I tried the 91% first, sprayed on, waited a few seconds, wiped the ancient harden pollen right off with a microfiber towel. I just put a lil of the 91% in a spray bottle, I'll use that up, then try the 80% and save the 91%.
Thanks, that old pollen wouldn't scrub off with a HD Scotchbrite scrub sponge, the abrasive side.
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I'd fill up the pressure washer with bleach and have a go at it***
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:55 AM
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Same rec I gave Juan last week.
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Apr 29, 2024, 10:28 AM
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McKee’s road kill. Let it sit for a minute and the enzymes soften the sap enough to wipe off.
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UPDATE:
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Apr 29, 2024, 11:02 AM
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My hoopty is clean AF.
TLDR, took a lot of elbow grease and time.
Ran it through a car wash a couple of days in a row. Not much progress. Bought some stuff called LA's totally awesome from the dollar general on a rec from someone in that thread. It was $1. Sprayed down roof real good, ran it through the wash. Did that again a 2nd time. No bueno.
Then I just got to using the rags at the car warsh and chipping away at it. Did this like 3-4 days in a row and now she's all cleaned up.
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Re: UPDATE:
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Apr 29, 2024, 5:19 PM
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Advice not taken from Obed who actually spent summers in college detailing cars - Streak intact.
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Re: how to remove old hardened pine pollen from truck paint
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Apr 29, 2024, 10:36 AM
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lay a hot rag on the spot for a few minutes....then wipe off as much as you can. then use bug and tar spray.
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Burn truck....
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Apr 29, 2024, 10:42 AM
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Claim on insurance that kids did it.
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Re: how to remove old hardened pine pollen from truck paint
Apr 29, 2024, 8:29 PM
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A petroleum based cleaner works. Be sure it is paint safe. Test it in an area out of view prior to using on pine sap. Try inside door jams or something similar for paint safe test. In the past I have used gasoline to remove tar. But do safe test first.
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Re: how to remove old hardened pine pollen from truck paint
Apr 29, 2024, 8:30 PM
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Scratch my post above. I thought it was pine sap you were removing. Do not use it on dried pollen. A simple car wash should remove pollen that had dried. .
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