Cleaning Paint

[drkbrth]

Ok, so.. as i get in my car this morning to leave for work, i get a rude good morning by my interior covered in black paint. I keep a box of spray paint in my car (so i can go tag your houses, obviously) and in that box, i had my trusty tin of Nite Shades. Drunk me, on saturday night was pulling that tin out to show a friend what i used to tint taillights etc, and forgot to put the some tins back into the box, in the boot. So yeah, i have a car covered in black paint. Windows, seats, doors, hood lining, and carpet.

 

Ill be uploading pictures for some good lols, as i am sure many of you will enjoy my pain.

Anyone got any advice on what to use to get it as close to perfect as possible?

Not too worried about the seats, as i planned to get them re-upholstered in the near future.

[JJT036]

Firstly material or vynal ??

 

if its vynal thinners , or spray gun wash but try in a discreet area firt for color fade

ive used thinners on a boot carpet that had overspray on it

 

cheers & goodluck

[drkbrth]

Unfortunately, material.

I'm thinking Thinners, or Acetone on the plastics, a bit worried about it messing with the plastic though.

[drkbrth]

Turps seems to be working fine on the windows and plastics. On the top of the door trim, there's a softer plastic part, the paint doesnt seem to want to dry on it. Not sure if i should attempt to attack it with turps as well.

 

Also, does anyone know of any good upholsterers in the Brisbane area?

[JDM55]

prepsol is good for that , to much thinners will start destroying the the plastics

[drkbrth]

Where would i find this "Prepsol"?

Any idea's on the fabric?

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Pictures, for the records.

[drkbrth]

Obvious point of lift-off. Small chunk taken out of plastic, must have made quite some noise.

 

 

Hole in the seat

Hole in the front passanger seat, THROUGH my momo seat covers (lol@momo)

 

Theres a few parts i didn't take pictures of, like the carpet, more hood-lining & the pillars.

My brother-in-law is a spray painter by trade, and told me to pop around his after work tomorrow, apparently he has something to take all the paint from the fabric & vinyl with ease.

Enjoy.

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Damn so that was just from leaving them in the sun?

[drkbrth]

Yeah, left it on the seat, must have been in direct sunlight.

The funny thing is, they busted this on "Mythbusters". I should write them and tell them whats up.

[Oh-KE]

Wtf even happened there dude? Did it just blow up?

 

edit haha woops a bit slow there..

 

I used to use spray paint a lot never had anything like this happen...

Edited January 9, 2012 by Oh-KE

[drkbrth]

Yeah quite odd. After i googled it for a while, i found it has happened to quite a few people out there.

Quite surprising.

[coln72]

Had a soft drink can do this while I was driving. Scared the shit outa me as I was overtaking a car at the time, and BOOOM. First thought was that I blew the old girl up. Took ages to clean the soft drink out of the vents and the stereo etc.

[19914afc]

Also had this happen with a tin of softdrink as well just used some cleaner to clean everything that the detailers at work had haha.

[drkbrth]

I've heard of it happening with milk products (ice break etc) But i'm still really surprised at an aerosol can