rev up your engines,
welcome to mechanic Monday, where today I'm going to show you how you can fight
the evil forces of nature that can ruin your car's paint, like birds crapping on
your car, now you can try to get your cat to lick it clean, but odds are that'll
never happen, I've been using this goo gone for automotive use for years
the company's not even pay me anything for this, I just know it's a
good product that works, because when you want to remove crud from your car's
paint, you don't want to destroy the paint, you don't want to create scratches
and you certainly don't want to create any future problems that's going to make
the paint come off, and of course you want to do it as soon as possible
because the bird crap contains a lot of acid, and it gets real hard bakes onto
your paint and will actually eat holes in it, so you want to do it as soon as
you see it whenever possible, that's why I keep a bottle of stuff in my wife's
trunk, I don't want to mess up the paint on this Lexus, and the first thing you
have to realize is, you don't want to use paper towels, they're kind of abrasive
they can actually put micro scratches on your paint, you want a good microfiber
towel, these things are getting cheaper and cheaper, they won't scratch anything
then you want to put the goo gone liberally all over the area and let it
soak for a few minutes, now you don't want to do this in the direct Sun, and
today's a perfect day because look, it's cloudy as can be, it's nice and gray you
won't get any sun's heat to do any kind of damage to anything, because just as a
general rule of thumb, don't do any kind of cleaning on a hot sunny day, if it is
hot and sunny park under a tree or do it inside your garage, now once it's
soaked in, just start rubbing in the case of this bird crap boy didn't take much
to get it off, and here we go the crud comes off on the towel not on your hand
then when you've got it off, just clean the area off with soap and water and this
thing is so dirty, I'll just wash the whole thing, I've seen guys scratching at the
bird crap with their fingernails, and all kinds of rough scrubbing things, that will
ruin your paint, this stuff will make it come off like butter, but what really
sold me on the Goo Gone in the first place is my Lexus and this Chinese tree of
life that it's parked under, now it's a beautiful tree and you don't want to cut it down
and it's healthy as can, as you can see by all these seeds that
it's creating, but the thing puts on a ton of SAP and before I noticed it, the
sap was on there in little places and it got almost as hard as amber, it was like
a rock and I couldn't figure out how to get it off, I mean look at this stuff, it's
as hard as can be and I don't want to ruin the paint getting it off, now granted
this was a lot harder to get off, I had to soak the stuff and in this case
I let it sit for almost half an hour, then I started to rub and tiny little
pieces would come off, but little by little, I kept putting it on and rubbing
it off and finally after about 45 minutes of rubbing it all came off, when
I found this stuff would take hardened tree sap from the hot Texas Sun that had
baked it on off, without doing any damage to the paint, I was sold and I keep a can
of the stuff in all my cars just in case some crud happens when we're on a trip
somewhere I can get it off fast, then it's a lot easier and quicker, because if you
see it when you're on a trip, the faster you get it off, the less you're going to
have any damage done at all, especially with stuff like tar behind the wheel
wells, one time we were driving down the road and we couldn't avoid it, we had to
run over a pail of paint and it was white paint all over the place, I got out
with the stuff and I wiped it off real fast, looks good as new, this stuff is amazing
and since this is mechanic Monday, I'm giving away a bottle of this stuff, just
post a clean non-offensive comment on the YouTube comments below, and a
winner will be picked randomly by a computer,
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