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willshak

wrote the following:
On 2/19/2011 8:31 AM, aemeijers wrote:
On 2/19/2011 7:32 AM, Ohioguy wrote:
My wife ran up against the painted wooden edge of our garage door while
backing out the car. Now we have a scraped bright green against our
dark
grey, which shows up quite a bit.

I used a lot of elbow grease, plus some soap & water, hoping that it
might just be water based paint that would come off somewhat easily. It
didn't work. Then I tried mineral spirits, hoping that might take it
off.

Most of the paint is on a plastic or rubber "bump guard", but a small
amount of it is on the actual driver side door.

Anyone have any suggestions on other concoctions that I might try to
get
it off?

Thanks!

One of those green scrub pads, like you probably have in your kitchen,
used dry. You'll probably have to touch up the clear-coat with a spray
can, though. Wipe down the area with something to remove the wax and
dust before you do so.

Green pads would be brutal...I'd try a magic eraser before I'd use the
3M green scrubber.

If your wife is challenged by narrow spaces like that, you may wanna add
a strip of some non-marring plastic material to that edge of door frame,
or replace the entire stop strip around the doorframe with one of the
plastic alternatives that provide a better weather seal anyway. I think
they only come in white, though.

Not criticizing your wife, by the way. I've scuffed the RH mirror on my
van a couple times, backing out without paying enough attention. It
swings out of the way, but it still scuffs the paint.

When my parents built a new home, my mom marked the center of the
garage to aim for....took some nylon line, suspended a tennis ball on
it and hung it from the garage ceiling. The ball was at the point
where the hood ornament was when the car was in the right spot.

Hood ornament? Was this a 1970s car?

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
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