MK5 Golf GTI

General => Detailing => Topic started by: AndyBrown on July 21, 2014, 09:55:08 am

Title: Tiny orange spots.
Post by: AndyBrown on July 21, 2014, 09:55:08 am
When I've been washing my car (candy white) on close inspection I can see tiny orange dots.
Now at first I thought these could be rust but it's on the plastic bumper and wing mirrors.

Does anyone know what this could be and would clay barring it remove it?

Cheers
Title: Re: Tiny orange spots.
Post by: BarberVW on July 21, 2014, 09:58:10 am
Sounds like iron fallout to me.

Buy a bottle of iron-x to decontaminate the paintwork, followed by claying and then resealing the paint with your LSP of choice.
Title: Re: Tiny orange spots.
Post by: xjay1337 on July 21, 2014, 10:04:59 am
Either tar or iron. Hard to tell.  Clay would remove it but ironx or tardis would be better as this is touchless and so not going to mark the paint.
Title: Re: Tiny orange spots.
Post by: AndyBrown on July 21, 2014, 10:12:51 am
Cheers lads, gunna get a das6 next month and do a full detail on the paint.
Title: Re: Tiny orange spots.
Post by: cuprajake on July 21, 2014, 01:22:23 pm
did a leon on sat and it was covered in cupranol fence and garden paint :)
Title: Re: Tiny orange spots.
Post by: Carpy25 on July 21, 2014, 03:50:25 pm
always thought the orange spots were pollen from trees ? as you only get it in the summer ? its hard to wash off as it get baked on in the sun but will wash off with water


Rob
Title: Re: Tiny orange spots.
Post by: duncatr on August 08, 2014, 12:08:43 pm
Had the same on my white Leon when I first got it, iron X removed it no problem :)
Title: Re: Tiny orange spots.
Post by: Frenzy on August 08, 2014, 06:46:27 pm
always thought the orange spots were pollen from trees ? as you only get it in the summer ? its hard to wash off as it get baked on in the sun but will wash off with water


Rob

I would have said pollen too. I get them on my reflex silver and they end up looking a brownish-yellow-orange. QD or washing removes them relatively easily. So do baby wipes but i'm not sure if baby wipes are kind to wax/sealant - i doubt it.
Title: Re: Tiny orange spots.
Post by: biffobear on August 08, 2014, 08:21:26 pm
did a leon on sat and it was covered in cupranol fence and garden paint :)
was it a cupra, no, lol