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Tar remover - The solution

  • 10-02-2009 10:55am
    #1
    Stevie Dakota
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭


    After consulting with a couple of valeters and a top guy at Maguires the advice for the best remover was, wait for it, petrol. Tried it and SOOO much easier than the endless rubbing required with off the shelf products. Safe for paintwork as well if washed down after.

    Just don't smoke while you are doing it.


Comments

  • #2
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    some trivia:

    When Bertha Benz made the first motor car journey ever in the world, she had to go and get petrol for a refill in the local pharmacy. They were selling it there as a

    ....wait for it .....


    cleaning product :D




    Who would have thought it


    EDIT
    shortly after that, when the motor car started to sell (in very small numbers) the owners and chauffeurs would buy petrol (still in the pharmacy) under the name "Benzin"

    Which is what petrol is called to this day in German


  • #3
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    66968002_00993fc2ec.jpg?v=0

    To be fair I thought every petrol sniffer knew that!


  • #4
    gyppo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭gyppo


    Just be careful that any lacquer coat isnt chipped or flaking, as petrol will quickly get under the lacquer coat and lift it rapidly.


  • #5
    Stevie Dakota
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Stevie Dakota


    gyppo wrote: »
    Just be careful that any lacquer coat isnt chipped or flaking, as petrol will quickly get under the lacquer coat and lift it rapidly.

    I suspect that anyone with flaking lacquer won't be too worried about a bit of tar! ;)


  • #6
    Dermo123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Dermo123


    Stevie Dakota wrote: »
    I suspect that anyone with flaking lacquer won't be too worried about a bit of tar! ;)

    Ha Ha:D


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  • #7
    Bandara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭Bandara


    I use derv to clean pretty much everything, including greasy tiles etc.

    its genius at removing them pesky parking stickers from your window as well.


  • #8
    Stevie Dakota
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Stevie Dakota


    Hammertime wrote: »
    I use derv to clean pretty much everything, including greasy tiles etc.

    its genius at removing them pesky parking stickers from your window as well.

    Great on dirty dishes too, a fill the dishwasher with the stuff.


  • #9
    cjt156
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    Petrol is great isn't it? I use it to brush me teeth, get the skiddies outa me strides, the lot. Fecking green party, try doing that with electricity....oh wait...


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