Remove bugs
Pro
Joined: Apr 2018
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From: Stockton, CA
I returned from Myrtle Beach last year and could barely see the paint on the front of my truck for the bugs. On a whim, I sprayed the front down with Mean Green and literally watche the bugs dissolve. Washed the truck and no sign of bugs. Seemed to have no deleterious effect on the paint, so I have been using it on all my cars.
Sorry, couldn't resist!
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From: small town in S.E Pa. PA
St. Jude Donor '03-'04
'I'm weighing in... this thread is specific about bugs. When bugs splatter their guts onto and more importantly into your clear ( they embed them self similar to acid rain ). they are organic organisms. Meaning they turn acidic in the face of heat and UV rays. much like a splinter in your finger, you can remove the surface but parts stays under the skin. any machinist knows that you remove a splinter by pulling it out with some sand paper. drawing it out the way it went in.,
Bugs embed them self into the clear. Simply remove them from the surface does not remove them totally from under the surface. Clay Bar was designed to grab these hooks in the clear and remove them by drawing them out .
Leaving the entrails below the surface will cause permutant damage as these organic properties decay . Getting them out quickly is important.. once removed, a layer of protection to fill in the hook left by the bug below the surface. This is all on the micron level. not easily seen, but there never the less. Anything organic has the potential to etch itself into the clear when left on long enough to turn acidic. Pulling these organic contaminants from below the surface is important if you want your clear coat to look showroom new
Bill
Bugs embed them self into the clear. Simply remove them from the surface does not remove them totally from under the surface. Clay Bar was designed to grab these hooks in the clear and remove them by drawing them out .
Leaving the entrails below the surface will cause permutant damage as these organic properties decay . Getting them out quickly is important.. once removed, a layer of protection to fill in the hook left by the bug below the surface. This is all on the micron level. not easily seen, but there never the less. Anything organic has the potential to etch itself into the clear when left on long enough to turn acidic. Pulling these organic contaminants from below the surface is important if you want your clear coat to look showroom new
Bill
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Joined: Sep 2019
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Used sea foam bug be gone then clay bar, two coats of black simonize wax. Think now maybe just soaking in water when I return from the road will do the trick and the do the same process every couple months. Great feedback and love the micro lesson..... never thought about what is left in the clear coat.
