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Going home last night after work, I seemed to have picked up some fresh road paint. I don't remember passing any cones or signs to warn me of road crews painting new yellow lines. In any case, I woke up to find yellow paint on the driver's side of the truck. Luckily, I have mudflaps and that saved a lot of the painted area. Are there any suggestions on how to get the road paint off without damaging the truck paint?
 

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That sucks. I had the black top shit all over not too long ago. Luckily it's black so wheel wells aren't noticeable but it doesn't come off of vinyl very well. Pissed me off for a good week
 

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Yea I havnt had the road paint issue, but the road tar freaking sucks. One of my main roads i travel just got redone and I got about a trillion spots of tar all over the truck. I've been too busy to clean them off, so I'm hiding them under a thin layer of dirt. Lol
 
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Thanks all for the suggestions. I read on the internet (so it must be true) that WD40 works fairly well. I'll try that first. I can get the yellow paint off the clearcoat with my fingernail fairly easily so that's promising. The running board and wheel well are going to be a bit more difficult though.
 

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On the clear coat, use a clay bar with some detail spray. If the WD-40 does not work on the wheel wells, try 3M adhesive remover or a graffiti remover, like Krud Kutter.
 

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Going home last night after work, I seemed to have picked up some fresh road paint. I don't remember passing any cones or signs to warn me of road crews painting new yellow lines. In any case, I woke up to find yellow paint on the driver's side of the truck. Luckily, I have mudflaps and that saved a lot of the painted area. Are there any suggestions on how to get the road paint off without damaging the truck paint?

We're you able to get that paint off? I have some on mine I would like to get removed?
 
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We're you able to get that paint off? I have some on mine I would like to get removed?

I got the paint off the paint off the clear coat by scraping off the larger splatter with my fingernails and a little elbow grease on the finer mist spray. No luck on the running board and wheel wells but I haven't tried any of the suggested products on it yet.
 
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