What can I use to get tree sap of my car? There are so many spots on my car, its driving me crazy.

 

Any ideas?

 

Tree sap remover

or Clay.

 

Usually just a good washing gets it off for me. Once it is hard and bonded to the paint, then clay bar would be my choice, if washing does not get it off. Then you need to re-wax. Hope this helps.

 

bug and tar remover sometimes can remove these things too

 

I' ve successfully removed a tree sap spot with warm water before it's hardened too much . . .

 

Rubbing alcohol

 

Also depends a bit on what type of sap. I had a river birch get my car and even Sal Zaino said that was a very difficult sap to remove. I wound up using all the above mentioned as well as eventually getting out the PC and polishing the really stubborn bits off. Good luck.

 

Denatured alcohol or rubbing alcohol, as mentioned, are probably the best things available. Remember: sap is used to make shellac. What is used to thin shellac?

Denatured alcohol.

Cotton terry cloth and rub LIGHTLY, allowing the alcohol to dissolve it. Don't rub hard. After the sap itself is gone, the whitish sap residue that remains can then be remove via a cleaner wax or light polish. Re- wax afterward (unless you used wax as a last step to temove the whitish haze of course).

 

Two more very effective solutions are DuPont's Prepsol and Meguiar's Body Solvent. Both easily dissolve most tree sap and clean your paint as well. Removes all wax in the process so a re-wax is needed after using these products.

 

I was going to sujest denatured alcohol, but all it is is ethyl alcohol with some mek and stuff like that added to make it toxic to drink. I work with mek and other solvents at work and would be carefull on using them on your car. a little bit should be ok, but alot could damage paint. Im not sure of the percentage of other solvents but I think its only like 1%, just enough to make you sick if you try to drink it. So you can use it just be carefull.

 

Thanks alot guys. I think I am going to try the Rubbing Alcohol first.