A Refueling Tip That Can Help Save Your Paint

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Jul 10, 2017 | 08:18 AM

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Johnhav430

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Originally Posted by UDel

Modern urethane paint and 2K clearcoat is chemical resistant and gasoline spills should not ruin your paint job. Don't wipe it off with a paper towel either as it will just scratch your clearcoat. Just dab it and let it soak if you don't have anything else, having a microfiber rag with some water/opimum no rinse in the car would be the best solution. That car looks older that has the paint damage, most likely it has no clearcoat or a bad/single stage clearcoat and it was sprayed with a lacquer or acrylic paint which is why it is not chemical resistant.

To your point, let's just say I was "curious" what would happen if brake fluid were spilled on a car. My impression would be that the paint would be eaten, gone, etc. There are actual youtubes where people tested it, and the results are surprising.

Jul 10, 2017 | 12:03 PM

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mmarshall

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Originally Posted by UDel

Modern urethane paint and 2K clearcoat is chemical resistant and gasoline spills should not ruin your paint job. Don't wipe it off with a paper towel either as it will just scratch your clearcoat.

If you do get light (surface) scratches, SCRATCH-OUT (which I've recommended on Car Chat many times) will go through them like butter.