About six months ago I had my front bumper patched up and repainted when I removed the license plate. In the same visit, I had my windshield replaced because of a huge crack caused by a highway rock. Ever since that visit to the body shop, I've had some type of abrasive dust stuck to my paint. I have it in miscellaneous places on the car. I have a spot on the hood, I had some on the driverside door and handle, and a little bit on the trunk. I was scratched the stuff on my handle with my nail because it was annoying me, but I want to get the stuff off and zaino my car because it looks like its collecting dirt... Does anyone know what it may be? Is it some type of powder or residue normal at body shops? Can I just claybar it and take it off?

 

Its overspray, and some claybars claim they will take it off but don't all the way. I would take it back to them and make them take it off. If they mess anything up and make them repaint the whole car. A dealer had to fix my front bumper before because they sold it to me already with a crack in it. They let overspray get all over the car. I just made them repaint the whole car over. Luckly I had a bodykit at the time and they did that on the car.

 

i had the same issue i drove my car to san francisco a month ago and had some type of white paint overspray on my car. i tried to use clay bar but it doesn't work so i use my finger to take every little overspray that i have on my car. spend 5 hours to take everything off then i clay bar it and wax it with zaino.. now it looks like it never had that overspray. but i still have a cracked windshield from highway rock . oh yeah i have SB z so it's easy to see all the overspray on my car.

 

If the over spray is light, the clay bar should remove it fine. Clay bars where originally invented to remove over spray, but the clay bars found at retail are not the ones that body shops use, for instance Clay Magic makes the blue consumer version and then the red bar which is the body shop version and WILL take off any kind of overspray but it is abrasive and the car's paint has to be buffed back out where the red bar was used.