Concrete Dust on Paint!

Croatan_Kid

Croatan_Kid

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So...I've been working at NAS Norfolk and my freshly painted, BLACK, Silverado was showered with concrete dust. How the hell do I get it off of my truck without destroying the paint job and windshield?! I've been strict about not even touching the paint. I don't lean on it, sit anything on it, and only wash it with foam...and now this happens.

Hopefully yall can help me out!
 
I hate to think of what I'd do to someone if they wrote "wash me" on my truck...

NAS Norfolk hasn't been too bad so far. I'm just up here doing some machinist work on some MH-53s. I just had no idea that the roads could suck any worse than basically all the rest of Virginia...and then I went on base. Makes me glad that NC has pretty good roads.

I'll try Lime Away. It won't hurt the paint?
 
I've used touchless car washes with pretty good success from power plant dust and grime on my truck. I've had to run through it a couple of times but it does the trick and doesn't scratch.
 
Wow I'm the first asshole in this thread? You guys are getting soft.
It's a truck! It's supposed to get dirty! Who the hell worries about the paint on a truck?
Is this the consequence of trucks being so expensive now? People actually care about them?

OK so seriously, I've also had pretty good luck w/ the touchless wash places. I'd bet even using the spray foam DIY would work.
 
Cement dust should be easy to remove.

Well detailing nerds are growing around here.
 
I feel the urge to take a road trip to New Bern. I promise I won't write any obscenities. :lol:
 
@RatLabGuy :flipoff2: :D The paint job was damn near five grand.

@XJsavage good thing I'm not in New Bern! :p
 
Close a damn nuff. Hurry up and figure out how to get that sand out of your vagina and let's go get drunk!
 
Yup, lime away or 50/50 mix of vinegar and water. I'd spray it with high pressure first, spray whatever you use let it sit out of the sun of course for a few mins and rinse off. Then carefully going front to back with clean sponge, wipe remaining off. Make sure to clean whatever sponge you're using with hose then dip in bucket and go on. Anything left over use clay bar or clay mit. Used to detail and cement dust isn't that hard, over spray is another story
 
LIMEONINE!!! I clean trucks with ash gravel coal dirt and limeonine is a citric base acid that will do miracles and leave a gloss on paint vinyl alum
 
Where do you get it?
 
I guess I am ignorant, wouldn't it just wash off with a garden hose? Or am I missing something?
 
You could blow most of it off driving back home, plenty of places to run that truck a hunred + for a few miles between Norfolk and New Bern :driver:
 
It was a little more than dust. As soon as you put water on it, it would smear. The windshield was the worst, but it came off with some elbow grease.

It was like a mixture of sea spray, wet concrete dust, and light rain. Even today it was still gooey after being on there for two days. I ran it through a touch free car wash and then wiped the truck down with a soft rag. I got most of it and didn't destroy the clear coat, but it does have an ass load of swirl marks now. I'm going to have to get some Lime Away to try and get the rest of it off the top of the cab and everything that's plastic.
 
Local guy in town, does detailing. I don't know how many times, he has spent days to weeks, at Plants, where overspray from Painters got on employee's cars!
Usually the Painter's Insurance covers the cost.
 
Croatan_Kid said:
Where do you get it?
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Envirospec.com is amazing shit after mixed it will burn your skin if it dries on something ex. Window, paint, the only way to get it off is to put more on the spot and brush it, I clean everything with it vinyl,awnings,alum, windows, you name it alum with ash usually needs aluminum bright acid too tho FYI I mix mine in 55 gallon drum it's two part tho wet powder and mix with water then add activiatjng agent whatever that is to it and mix/stir till orange juice color! I think they have smaller bottles I'm sure $200 to make up 55-65 gallon
 
Croatan_Kid said:
It was a little more than dust. As soon as you put water on it, it would smear. The windshield was the worst, but it came off with some elbow grease.

It was like a mixture of sea spray, wet concrete dust, and light rain. Even today it was still gooey after being on there for two days. I ran it through a touch free car wash and then wiped the truck down with a soft rag. I got most of it and didn't destroy the clear coat, but it does have an ass load of swirl marks now. I'm going to have to get some Lime Away to try and get the rest of it off the top of the cab and everything that's plastic.
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I work for dh griffin and we use basically huge misters to keep concrete dust down and we use lime away on excavators and trucks when needed. It doesnt seem to hurt paint but i wouldnt let it sit long
 
Swirl marks on black paint require a pro detailer experienced with black paint so look into it if you want to go that far. Meguiers mirror glaze helps to fill and hide them after you polish them.
 
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