68carboy Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 I am having a problem removing bugs that I got on a 3500 mile road trip. I had put opti coat 2.0 on my car about a month before I took off on this road trip. This car was about 6 months old with about 3,000 miles on it when I put the OC on. I clay bared the car, then polished it, did 2 alcohol rub downs and applied the OC. I was happy with the results when I was done. I did the same process with a 4 runner before I did this car and was happy with that one too. When I got back from my road trip I washed my car and a lot of the bugs came off with the power sprayer and more came off when I was hand washing it. There were some that I had to remove with bug remover. The problem I have is that the bug splatters look like the actually etched the OC. I can't feel them when I run my fingernail across them but I definitely can see them. I am afraid that I will have to polish again to remove these and that will also remove the OC. I was trying to paste some pictures of this but was unable to get them to paste here. I would appreciate any input I can get with this, Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 My first step would be to use some Power Clean to remove these spots before resorting to compounding the OC off and re-coating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68carboy Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 Thanks for the suggestion, I will give that a try. I hope that works better then the bug remover.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primo spaghetti Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 the pics will definatly help... also if the power clean doesnt help, id try poli-seal before starting over... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68carboy Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 I still have not been able to figure out how to add pictures, could somebody tell me the steps to follow to do that? Thanks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68carboy Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 I tried the Power clean but was unsuccessful removing the bug marks. I will try the poli-seal and hope for the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68carboy Posted June 20, 2013 Author Share Posted June 20, 2013 Thanks for the information Chris. I was able to add a couple pictures of this to the member gallery, the links are below. I am not up on all the acronyms, does ONR refer to the Optimum No rinse Wash? Also, I have washed the car about 3 times since I returned from the trip and the bug marks seems to be getting lighter. I tried the poli-seal and it definitely helped. I am sure if I go over it again it will clean this up. Thanks again to everybody for the advice and help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68carboy Posted June 20, 2013 Author Share Posted June 20, 2013 In the pictures above the bug marks are a little hard to see but they are on either side of the light reflection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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