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Conference terri::cars_uk

Title:	Cars in the UK
Notice:	Please read new conference charter 1.70
Moderator:	COMICS::SHELLEYELD

Created:	Sun Mar 06 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2584
Total number of notes:	63384

913.0. "Cloudyness on paintwork" by PANIC::WINTER (Trust me...I know what I am doing) Mon Jan 08 1990 22:35

    
    I've just got my company car and now want to sell my own personal
    car before my family (sister etc) get too comfortable in it!
    
    The car on the whole is in very good condition, low mileage etc
    except for one thing...the paintwork. I used to leave it every weekday
    at the local railway station car park, which happens to run parallel
    with the tracks. The problem is that spray(dust etc) from the track
    lands on the car and then gets baked into the paint. Net result
    white cloudy marks on the paintwork (original colour was rosso red),
    these marks are very rough to touch and impossible to get off during
    normally cleaning and waxing.
    
    May queries are:-
    
    1) Has anybody else suffered similiar problems, and
    
    2) Any remedies to rid the car of these marks.
    
    
    Regards
    
    
    Sean

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
913.1	T-Cut, Elbow-Grease and a prayer??	KERNEL::LOANE	Once upon a time in a TU45!	`Tue Jan 09 1990 11:31`	1

913.2	Another vote for T-Cut, and blood!	SHAPES::STREATFIELDC	WIZARD STUFF	`Tue Jan 09 1990 14:02`	1

913.3		ODIHAM::PATTISON_M		`Tue Jan 09 1990 14:27`	10
	FWIW I saw a TV news article a couple of months ago about a woman who had suffered the same problem as you, she was trying to take BR to court for damages but they said that the rail dust could not cause the problem, and if it did why hadn't they had any more complaints ! I dont know how far the case went or whether she got anything out of BR, but it might be worth a try. M.
913.4	Gently ..	JUMBLY::DAY	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished	`Tue Jan 09 1990 18:53`	4
	Yes to T-cut. But. Try it on a small inconspicuous area first ... Just in case there are any jokes. And don't use too much/too coarse a grade ..