Orange spots on white vehicle. How to remove?

[Stbentoak]

Carpro IronX spray is what I use. Clay May do it but won’t get into letters and crannies….when you spray it on the rust flecks run like blood down the side. I do it once a year on my wife white Jag, then wax afterward. Do it outside as the stuff smells terrible, but I assure you it does the job…

 

[Banks22]

You’ll want some sort of liquid solution to use with it. Normally I use Meguire’s quick detailer along with their clay bar which I think is about the same price. You can pick that up anywhere that sells car cleaning products (Walmart, target, advanced auto, etc).

I got a foam gun coming and a clay mitt from Adam’s. Wash first then use the mitt with a detail spray. Probably try next Sunday the weather might be ok, was 80 today in Michigan and 27 Tuesday wtf!

 

[Pertzbro]

As said before - iron remover will get most of it out. Clay bar will pull everything off the paint. Since it's that bad - dawn dish soap it - that will pull any grease or wax. Then hit it with the iron remover - wash and rinse very well with car soap - you want it extremely clean before clay bar. Clay bar w/ something slick - mequires quick detail spray or wax will be fine. After this you have a perfectly clean paint for wax, sealant, etc.

 

[vcode]

Clay bar. It's actually tiny metal filings that attach to the paint and start to rust. Worked in an industrial area near RR tracks and all the cars in our parking lot had it.

 

[jeboyd]

I have a lot of orange dots all over my white paint. My mom had this before on her white equinox and dealer said I think rust and road dirt gets trapped. It’s very hard to remove was wondering if anyone had an easy solution. I saw an iron remover on Adam’s polish didn’t know if that would work? Sorry if this needs to be in exterior...
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Believe it or not, rubbing a wet vitamin C tablet (from the local drug store) might do the trick. It removes rust stains like magic from vinyl around my pool.

 

[WalleyeMikeIII]

Are you using a touch free car wash?

Service manager at my Chevy Dealer where I did business for 30 years, until I decided I needed a GMC instead of a Chevy, swore that touch car washes actually prevented this, so I took his word for it. 2 White Tahoes and 3 White suburbans I owned, and never had this issue since using a car wash with brushes (except for around the emblems, where the brushes didn't scrub the paint well). Net, he siad it is from brake dust, railroad dust, etc...any small iron particles in the air that settle on your clear coat...Winter here in MN was a sure thing to do it too...enrolled in a car wash club at a good quality car wash with rotating brushes, eliminated a LOT of it.

 

[Banks22]

Are you using a touch free car wash?

Service manager at my Chevy Dealer where I did business for 30 years, until I decided I needed a GMC instead of a Chevy, swore that touch car washes actually prevented this, so I took his word for it. 2 White Tahoes and 3 White suburbans I owned, and never had this issue since using a car wash with brushes (except for around the emblems, where the brushes didn't scrub the paint well). Net, he siad it is from brake dust, railroad dust, etc...any small iron particles in the air that settle on your clear coat...Winter here in MN was a sure thing to do it too...enrolled in a car wash club at a good quality car wash with rotating brushes, eliminated a LOT of it.

I actually used a touchless wash on my black Silverado once a week cuz was 2 blocks from my office and super cheap. Couldn’t notice orange spots on a black vehicle tho. I always stayed away from brush auto washes cuz was told causes scratches and it did scratch my wife’s black equinox she had before.
I just spent like $200 on Adam’s polishes lol. Still watching videos, but as of now I’m gona power rinse, iron remover, foam gun wash, visco clay w/spray wax and then butter wax. I think that’s the steps that need to be done...? Let’s see if the wife will give me enough time to do that lol...it is her car!

 

[Stbentoak]

You may think your vehicle doesn’t have these rust flecks….no matter the color…. but one spray of ironX on the sides will show you otherwise.
White just shows it more….

 

[shock]

Brushed car washes will scratch your car. Please don’t do it.

 

[Toasty]

Those that say that clay bar will do it are right - I've used clay bar on my white Camaro for years to handle it - yearly. BUT! I just tried the Carpro IronX for the first time just a week ago, and HOLY COW. It made the clay bar process SOOO much easier. As stated before, cool car, out of the sun. It's a gamechanger.