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Can one of you help me choose which way to go with this detailing service? I used to park underneath the L Tracks in Chicago. The tracks are tarred often without notice so you get the tar and grease dripping onto your vehicle. Even WORSE is that the paint and rust from the tracks also run down and drip onto your vehicle. My cars paint is so gritty that it makes me cringe. I know for a fact that one of the hot tar treatments on the tracks landed onto my hood and now I have drip mark shadows in the clear coat. I know for sure the $250 service won't pull that out. Do you think the $450 service will?
Anyway, do any of you know anything about what level of service I would need? I am curious if the cheaper detailing service will suffice.
Get some WD40 and soak all the areas where the tar has landed. This might take several applications but you will be able to get the tar off yourself.
Next get a clay bar to pull the bulk of the grit out of the paint. At this point the paint should be looking pretty good but the stains might still be present. Once that's done get yourself polishing compound and a small orbital buffer with a few good pads and go over the car one panel at a time.
Why pay someone to do something you can handle yourself for $50.
Well one is a detail and the other is paint correction.
If you are just wanting to remove stains and contaminants, the $250 detail should suffice as it mentions a full decontamination of paint. For any stains that might take additional work, a good detailer will mention that when they evaluate your car.
Just as note, paint correction involves some removal of paint and if your paint is already too thin, you will want to avoid this. This is why they will measure the paint thickness first to see how much paint can be safely removed.
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