Is this tree sap?

Black is Beautiful,but oh what a pain to keep beautiful...
Was gonna say looks exactly like the water spots on mine...BUT...mine doesnt feel rough...just gets spotted ... best solution I've found is a good quality Gas Leaf Blower...a lot faster than micro fiber towels and always comes out perfect...no spots or swirls from rag...Now...if I dont have any gas for the leaf blower I just take the Raptor down the road @90mph for 5 minutes....way more fun than a Leaf Blower...

Jonny V said:

The wife gets pretty annoyed too...

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LMAO...if the wife gets annoyed over you giving your baby a 3 hr. I suggest you continue going to Brown Bear Car Wash...and do not..i repeat,do not take advice I've given other on giving your Raptor a "Blow-Job" with a Leaf Blower....it drives my GF crazy and gives her feeling of insecurity ....

Looks like fine water spots.

Thanks all for the help. I think my sprinklers got to it, I’ll re wash and use some water spot remover.

Jonny V said:

looks like water spots....if you're washing by hand, try and do a better job wringing out the shammy, or shammy first then hit it with a clean towel. Nowadays, I just do the local Brown Bear car wash as doing the ******** takes three hours.

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3 hours? Holy crap. I’m old and it’s been taking me a good 10 minutes lately. You must need a whole bottle of lube.

SD1290 said:

Thanks for the advice all

I use a foam cannon and large drying microfibers. These spots just appeared a few days after the wash. The surface of the car feels rough to the touch. Never seen anything like that.

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If tree sap a hot wet towel works. Put in the micro wave oven for 2 minutes , soak them. usually will clean them and bugs right up

Raptor Vet said:

If tree sap a hot wet towel works. Put in the micro wave oven for 2 minutes , soak them. usually will clean them and bugs right up

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I whacked some trees (in the Sicilian way) to alleviate some of this problem, but when I would notice the tree sap it would be a few days there, and this method left me with more of a mess than anything else. It probably required more patience than I have. Heaven forbid the stuff dries or it’s way worse to remove.

So a word to the wise from the very unwise.

I bought 2 (because god forbid I run out of something) bottles of eraser, the kind to remove water spots. It's a gel, quite acidic apparently.

Where is the first place I tired it? 2 years ago we built a 23'x23' addition, new kitchen, media room. I put down 16"x16" 1/2 thick black granite tiles from India, not the chinese crap which are dyed.

One of my two puppies, a 130 lbs Dogue de Bordeaux (you remember *****, right?) is a drooler. His drool has actually burned spots in my floor in front of my sink. So instead of trying this gel in an inconspicuous spot, or perhaps on a tile from 7 extra boxes, I squirted it on the floor, four or five tiles, to remove just a few spots, and it lightened the floor after I left it on too long.

yes, I'm a dotard.

So be careful with that stuff. It can and will etch paint, glass, whatever it comes in contact with if left on too long.

I finally used it on my Raptor this week as near the Ford Performance school in Utah turned out I parked near sprinklers. Do you have any idea how hard that water is?

But this time I put it on, rubbed it in and immediately pressure washed it off.

Running alcohol works on sap

Jonny V said:

looks like water spots....if you're washing by hand, try and do a better job wringing out the shammy, or shammy first then hit it with a clean towel. Nowadays, I just do the local Brown Bear car wash as doing the ******** takes three hours.

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Don't the people that work at the car wash get upset when you are whacking off in the car while they wash it?