Hey guys,

I was planning on removing water spots on my wife's black Grand Am using acetic acid (vinegar) this weekend. The question I have is, would I have to rewax the car over? I just clayed it and waxed it about a week ago, but I didn't seem to remove all the water spots. Does the vinegar remove the old wax? Thanks

 

Plan on rewaxing.

 

Probably depends on what type of wax it is.

 

It's the Mother's Gold Pure Carnuba wax

 

Rewax, it'll only take you 2 minutes in any event.

 

I would assume if it will take rust off steel then the pH acidity of vinegar would most likely remove the wax.

I didn't know vinegar could take out water spots - good to know.

 

lol...and its also one of the best ways to remove the water spots!!!

 

plain vinegar is GREAT on water spots. The smell makes me dizzy though.

 

ill sacrifice the smell any day to get those little buggers off my car!

 

Im right there with you i was just scared i would vomit on my z!!!

 

so vinegar will do no harm to the paint?

 

how about bird crap spots? every little bird crap i get on my SB, i get spots after i wipe them out. it looks similar to water spots. can these be removed with vinegar? or are they in for good?

thank you.

 

Try vinager though i doubt it would remove it. You can hide it with zaino or remove it with a swirl remover (better if used with a pc buffer).

 

Nope, no harm at all. You can use straight vinager if your taking out a few spots but if you want to clean a large area you can mix it with water if you want.

 

I noticed I have ALOT of water spots so I guess Im going to try using vineger on the whole car

 

...TIP......after fighting hard water issues and resulting water spots

1.) Meguires NXT Carwash solution has water softeners

2.) I dry with this "California Squeegee"....is like a window squeegee for your
car......"best thing since sliced bread"


Results.....water spots.......