So I waxed my car a few weeks ago and started to notice these white specs on the paint, seemed like it was just after a rainstorm that I noticed them so I freaked out and thought that maybe it was acid rain or something , especially on the bumper.

Basically what I'm thinking is that all of the chips in the bumper (from little rocks or normal wear the paint goes through) got filled in with the wax and then dried white (like the wax does, but you remove it).

Does anyone know how I could remove the wax from these chips in the paint? It doesn't look too hot, just washed the car and it shines except for these small spots.

 

Compressed air with some detailer spray, or a high pressure wash.

 

I always use a wet clean toothbrush and go in all the crevices that the wax sits in. ie - chips, where body panels meet, tail lights, etc.

 

Good tips guys, I'll try to give it a try later today.

 

also: if you try the pressure washer idea, it is possible that you'll just take the wax back off of the front of your car (or wherever the chips are)

 

That might actually be a good thing because I have the paint pen and clearcoat ready to touch up some of those spots. Which you can't do with the wax on anyway.

 

I bought a product called "Mothers Back to Black" (for any color car) today. It's made for basically exactly what I needed, getting wax out of chips. Worked great. So if anyone is having this problem, I recommend it.

 

Hmmm, I'm not so sure it should be used on your paint as it's designed to clean and recondition your rubber, plastic & vinyl trim pieces not for cleaning out chips. Might want to read the fine print just to be safe.

Anyway.................

For my chips I like to use a Q-tip with speed detailer sprayed on it.

 

Says on the bottle that it's for paint. Makes the bumper look so much better though, it looked like snow on it before.

Think next I'm going to clay it, polish, and then maybe try a liquid wax (just on the bumper for now).

 

Hmmm, no kiddin. then rock n roll.

Clay, polish and a liquid wax sounds like a plan too. What kind of liquid are you going with?

 

It's actually this stuff that came with the Mothers clay kit, it's called "Mothers Carnauba Cleaner Wax".

The only thing that sucks is that tomorrow I was planning on doing all of this, but there's a chance of rain... and it's my day off from work.

 

Ive been having the same problem with my car. The white wax fills in the chips and make the front end look like crap. I bought the black wax that came with the "chip stick" and its excellent. Unfortunately, I went out of my way to find it (because no one had black wax like I needed) but when I did actually find it and use it, I realised the chip stick thing is actually a crayon.

The wax fills in the chip and does an excellent job hiding them. Since then I've just bought a box of all black crayons and its been working very well - fill/color in the chips with the crayon and wax over it with the black wax and you'll never know the difference.

 

Oh mighty hail to the toothbrush as it does powerful things.

hey its what i use, got my vote