
See Small Specs On Your Paint? Rough Texture? It’s Paint Overspray.
When you see small coloured specs on your paint or feel a rough texture on the panel when you slide your hand over it, it’s due to tiny paint particles that have landed on your vehicle.
Usually this happens when you’re near a construction site or someone is painting outside and the wind carries over a very thin layer of paint particles over to your vehicle.
It’s most likely all over your vehicle; glass, paint, trim, wheels, etc… it’s not fun to see, let alone to remove it from all those surfaces. And you have to remove the overspray if you want to get paint protection film (PPF) or colour changing wrap done on your vehicle.
That being said, small specs on your paint and the rough texture feeling could be something else like other types of above surface containments.
See Small Specs On Your Paint? Rough Texture? It’s Paint Overspray.
Scratching and rubbing your paint vigorously with a towel, plastic razor, or brush will do nothing other than install a bunch of swirls and scratches into your paint.
We see this time and time again. It just adds more work to your vehicle because now there’s two parts that we have to address:
The first part is removing the overspray. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s very difficult. It depends on the type of paint and the surface that it’s on (i.e. trim vs wheels vs paint vs glass).
Many times, even with safe removal methods, it will cause minor marring to the paint. Because of this, a light polish will be needed to remove the marring.
However, if you aggressively scratch your paint, we’ll then have to use a more intense method of paint correction to remove those heavy swirls and scratches you caused.
Our Overspray Removal Process:
1. Wash the vehicle; including wheels, tires, and wheel arches
4. Light polish to remove any light marring, swirls, or scratches
2. Start the removal process with various tools and products; clay bar and adhesive remover
5. Add spray wax for shine and protection
3. Wipe down the affected areas to remove any chemical residue
6. Dress tires with a water-based, no-sling dressing
Now, this service in itself is good enough to get your paint back to where it was (and sometimes, even better). That being said, if you’d like to increase the overall appearance of the vehicle, a Wash Wax or Paint Correction service will achieve that for you.
Overspray Pricing
£60 - £600
Paint Overspray FAQ
Do you come to me?
For overspray removal, we’ll need you to drop your vehicle off with us in South Wales.
It’s a delicate job that depends on the type of overspray, and doing it outdoors—especially in warm weather—can affect the results. At our location, we can take our time and do it properly without rushing or fighting the elements.
I tried claying the paint and it’s still there. Now what?
A clay bar treatment is a great option to cleanse the paint from above surface contaminants. It’s what we do on every Wash and Wax service. However, when it comes to overspray, it’ll need to be “pulled” off differently. You can spend more time claying but you won’t get favourable results. It’s a very tedious and time consuming process.
Can you remove the overspray from plastic, wheels, and glass?
Generally speaking, yes. We can remove it from glass, wheels, fenders, trim, etc… However, that doesn’t mean we’ll be able to remove 100% of all the overspray. As always, we’ll follow the our detailing methodology. But some areas and surfaces will be more problematic than others. Especially depending on the type of paint that landed on your vehicle.
Can a rubbing compound remove the overspray?
It might be able to remove a tiny fraction of the overspray that has landed on your vehicle, but for the most part, it won’t do much. You can try your best to work the product into the area with a towel but you’re not going to see a significant difference.
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