I've accidently got engine oil and grease (usually from my hands) on my paint before, but it's usually not a problem if I get to it quickly.

But I just took my car to have my A/C worked on, and now there's brown stains on the driver's side of the car over the front tire that look like oil or something had dripped all the way down into the wheel well. These guys had my car overnight, so it's probably been "soaking in" for a while. I tried to get it off immediately when I got home, but not much luck there. (You know, it seems like it's routine or something for anyone who works on my car to grease the paint up in at least one place...)

The car is yellow, and the clearcoat is cooking off in many places on the top. On the sides, the paint looks dulled, but it still has some faint shine at certain angles and is not rough to touch like the top of the hood is (where the most cooking as occured). I'm worried that it would be easy for me to take the paint off if I use a harsher chemical than the Turtle Wax that I use to clean my car.

Any ideas/tips?

Thanks

 

I have no clue I'm still working on getting out indian chewing tobacco stains out. Cant belive the other owners would chew and spit that **** in the car. Sick! Sick fricking (&@# (& $&@$)&% @)$#% (* %%

 

Try WD-40 and a soft towel. WD-40 is as useful as bailing wire & duct tape to a ******* (guilty as charged). FYI, WD-40 works to loosen brake dust, road tar and bug guts embedded @ 100+ MPH too. Just do a little section at a time to make sure it doesn't dull things up too bad. I do the brake dust routine once a week on my gta and the road tar trick on my white 90 Chevy pickup (we all know how great that paint is LOL) just as often.

 

i had a couple stains on teh front of my hood from closing the hood with greasy hands, i could enver get it all out with turtle wax but try formula 113, got every grease stain off my car, works really really well

 

a little rubbing compound will take it off no prob

 

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll try the WD-40 first (just 'cause I already have some), and then I might try Formula 113 later. Assuming that you can get it at AutoZone/O'Reilly.

redbird_400: Read your post about the chewing tobacco and I thought about a post I saw on here a while back about f-bodys and how it seems that a lot of rednecks/white-trash drive them. Sort of ironic because I live in the DFW area, too, and I just got back from looking at a Firebird for sale that was full of old socks and food and was sitting up on cinder blocks and everything. Most of the time (but not all of the time), I don't buy into stereotypes like that, but man, sometimes...