Have you ever noticed that when you're driving down the road, & hit a bug, it could be a white moth, a yellow butterfly, or a green grass hopper, but by the time you get home, the bits of them left behind, & the stain they leave are black.
How can this be? I'm sure there is a conspiracy afoot here, to disfigure our cars. We need 007 James Bond to come to the rescue perhaps.
Still it wasn't too much of a problem in the old days. When there were acres of chrome in bumper bars, & grills, bits of bug, & stains washed off easily.
Even with a 7, with its mostly black front, if there were black stains, they were hard to notice.
Then along come colour coordinated, plastic front cars, & we have a problem.
Amway had a spray on tar & bug remover. Spray the offending area, a few minutes before washing the car, & every bit of bug disappeared. No more, they dropped the product years ago. All the local parts shops tell me there is nothing like it today.
With the lady's Mazda 2, the Capri, & the Honda S2k, the dirty stains don't wash off, they grow in number weekly.
Yes I have polished them off, but that does take paint off, & is not ideal, & I don't like using any sort of cutter on that little bit of paint above the grill on the 7. It would be so easy to cut through on that sharp edge.
So today I had an idea. No it didn't hurt that much.
I don't know if Bars Leaks is an international product, we've been stopping leaky radiators with it for 70 years here. I have been using their "NEW" product, Bars Bugs in my windscreen washers for about 10 years, so quick as a flash, I decided to use it on the front of the Honda, which was covered in bug marks, that would not wash off.
My brilliance was rewarded. Wet the thing, wipe on lots of Bars Bugs windscreen washer fluid on with a rag, wash off 5 minutes later, & not a bug, or stain to be seen.
I grabbed the 7, & attacked its stains, there gone in a flash.
I don't know if it would remove tar, it's so long since any of that went on our roads, I don't know if any is left in the district, but I'm told a bit of butter applied on a warm day, or heated with a hair drier will remove that.
So my tip for the day. Windscreen washer fluid, not car wash to clean your car.
Hasbeen
