Tree Sap

[Evoss]

Hey Guys,

For quite a while I have only been able to park my car under a tree dropping alot of sap.

I hadent washed my car for about a month, and It built up more then I expected.
I gave my car a good clean at the weekend but some of the sap didnt come off.
Where it did come off, it is lovely and smooth, but bumpy on the sappy areas.
A while ago people sugested fairy washing up liquid to remove everything, old layers of wax/polish too.
I gave that a go, but no luck.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

[Guy]

Hey Guys,

For quite a while I have only been able to park my car under a tree dropping alot of sap.

I hadent washed my car for about a month, and It built up more then I expected.
I gave my car a good clean at the weekend but some of the sap didnt come off.
Where it did come off, it is lovely and smooth, but bumpy on the sappy areas.
A while ago people sugested fairy washing up liquid to remove everything, old layers of wax/polish too.
I gave that a go, but no luck.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Clay is your friend here... honestly.. its the only way to go when its that bad. 

I am in a constant fight against tree sap... regular washing is really the only way to keep on top of it... did the van sunday and today 

[Evoss]

Cheers Guy

[Dan J]

yep as guy said clay bar is your best tool for this job and in this case id suggest a regular layer of wax after each wash to top the protection up from the frequent sap contamination and removel.

[kells]

Tree sap is major paint killer about as bad as bird poo.I'd try park your car in another location although I can imagine that may not be possible

[greencode]

Can I jump in on this post as well...

I, too, have just cleaned the car that's been stood under a horrible sappy old tree and to my horror the sap has etched itself into the paintwork. I've been away for around 6 weeks and before that I polished the car in the hope that this would be enough but I think with a mix of sap and very hot weather it has seemingly burned itself into the paint.

It has therefore caused a horrible finish on the paintwork that looks really rough and patchy in places i.e. not glossy any more. Would this clay bar work for this? If so, what does a clay bar actually do?

[greencode]

Just to follow up on this - I've been looking around the web and there's a few people that seem to think Meguiar's Mirror Glaze 105 Ultra Cut Compound is quite good for this. What I don't want to end up doing is buying 2 or 3 things to test to see which one actually works as it could end up quite expensive.

[Dan J]

Can I jump in on this post as well...

I, too, have just cleaned the car that's been stood under a horrible sappy old tree and to my horror the sap has etched itself into the paintwork. I've been away for around 6 weeks and before that I polished the car in the hope that this would be enough but I think with a mix of sap and very hot weather it has seemingly burned itself into the paint.

It has therefore caused a horrible finish on the paintwork that looks really rough and patchy in places i.e. not glossy any more. Would this clay bar work for this? If so, what does a clay bar actually do?

claying your car lifts the bonded contaminents from the paints surface, ie fallout/ferrous metals,sap,traffic fumes,road grime,micro particals etc etc,
polish wise there are alot of good polishes to use but each polish will behave differently on each car due to different paint hardnesses and laquer/clearcote differences,

menzerna,3M are very effective on hard vag/bmw finishes.

[Mr Blue]

I managed to remove tree sap swiftly with megs glass cleaner. Then washed/waxed again.

[Dan J]

i wouldnt recomend using glass cleaner on paint work as its designed to clean glass and has the chemicals needed to clean glass not paint.

tree sap can be a pain depending on what tree it came from, oine sap is like glue and is a mega pain to remove if left on for too long even with tfr.