Thanks guys!!
Graffiti remover is worth a shot on the spray paint. You can find it at any big box hardware store. Someone spray painted my VW bus not long after getting a $400 Earl Scheib sale special. I found out about it two months later (I was out of the country). The remover did a decent job and didn't damage the paint, though it did also take all the color off of some decals on one of my windows.
Oh man that sucks!! Glad you were able to get the spray paint off, I would be so mad if someone tagged my car! This was actually my own doing *hangs head in shame*
This oughta be easy. The clearcoat on the car will almost certainly be hardened. The spray paint not. Start with the gentler solvents and see if one will dissolved the paint -- I'd start with diesel fuel and maybe move to mineral spirits then gasoline or turpentine.
A little rubbing compound should work too, and barely cut the paint suurface if done gently.
I'd try the same on the adhesive, with the addition of a polar solvent like isopropyl alcohol if the nonpolar mineral spirits doesn't work.
There are some decent adhesive removers -- 3M makes on based on d-limonene, a good gentle solvent and the main part of "citrus" cleaners. There are also some good tar removers with a mix of gentle widely effective solvents.
As long as the intended color on the car wasn't applied with rattle can spray paint, this is likely to end well.
Don
Thanks! I got the truck back on friday, and they said they baked it, so I'm assuming the clear coat is totally hardened, but I sprayed it yesterday, so it's dry & i did like 5 light coats
. I think I'm just going to leave the spray paint, b/c I'm afraid I'll do more damage trying to get it off.
Oh, and I looked at the adhesive remover I used, it's Turtle Wax Label and Sticker Remover. I'll go to Home Depot and see if they have any Goof Off or the 3M stuff. (lol, is it really called goof off?)
Here's a pic of the damage - it doesn't look that bad in the pic, but there's tons of over spray and the top coat peeled off with the stencil on a couple of areas so it's got a 3D quality to it. The glue is there too in the right hand corner.