Video: Preventing Auto Paint Damage

SUNNYVALE — Host, Sarah Rutan: To avoid permanent damage to your vehicle’s paint, you’ll need to be proactive about cleaning off elements like tree sap and bird droppings. Today we’re in Sunnyvale with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Tristin Wurzbach of B2 Perfection Auto Body to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Tristin Wurzbach: The biggest tip I have – it happens every day; it has nothing to do with collision – is everyday wear and tear. So, specifically, it’s about bird poop and tree sap. If you ever get that on your car – especially in the summer, how you have it bake it, in even just a few days – it will permanently stain the paint. The only way to fix it is that you have to repaint everything. So, if you ever get that on your car – unless you don’t care, of course – what I would do is I would purchase some bug and tar remover. Turtle Wax makes it at, like, your local Autozone and stuff like that, and it’ll get the tree sap and the bird poop off before it stains your car. And you only have, at most, a few days – I would try to get it off within the same day. So, yeah, I would recommend the bug and tar remover for stuff like that, because you don’t really know the consequences of having to repaint several panels until it’s too late. A very easy fix – ten bucks – and you can even use it later in case something like that ever happens again. Easy.

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