donahoe73

goo gone, bug and tar remover, claybar, ect.

Thanks

roadyTT

Start polishing...

bac2h

It won't hurt the paint. Keep saturating the rag and let it set. I got baked on Duct tape residue off with this method but it literally took a couple of days. The key is letting the stuff work for a perod of time. Not something I would want to try with Goo Gone cuz that stuff is pretty potent.

RKA

How about a heat gun...get the surface warm NOT hot. You may need to keep the metal warm for a little bit before the sap softens...when it does, run some tar remover on a MF cloth over it to pick it up.

I'm not a fan of polishing to remove it, simply because you're removing clearcoat on 95% of the surface and only removing sap on <5% of the surface. Furthermore, the sap is on top of the clear coat. You should find a way to remove whatever is on top of the clear coat first, and use the polish to level the clear coat only. Polishing the sap may work, but it's almost like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me. A crude approach.

meem

hmm, isn't that basically the same argument i made with removing waterspots by polishing?

schnellmb

hot water and dawn.....,clay, polish, seal

schnellmb

just used hot water and meg's gold class and it took the sap off.

maybe the easy approach before the howitzer.

RKA

To me the hard water spots have negligible "height" above the clearcoat and they usually occupy far more surface area proportionally speaking. Sap, on the other hand, is visibly raised over the clearcoat and occupies a far smaller surface area.

donahoe73

Cool. I will try these suggestions. Thanks!