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Re: [mjfpilot]
by mnf
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Oct 01, 2008 (4:28 pm)
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Replying to: mjfpilot (Oct 01, 2008 4:02 pm)
Have you tried a car cleaner wax ?
Good Luck
MNF
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Re: [mnf]
by mjfpilot
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Oct 01, 2008 (7:38 pm)
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Replying to: mnf (Oct 01, 2008 4:28 pm)
No, but I'll try it. It can't hurt. I was hoping when I came to this web-site that someone else had a similar problem. I found another forum where someone with a new white corolla discovered some small brown stains on his car after washing it. He had no idea how they got there...he included a picture. I knew exactly what they were since they looked like mine. Unfortunately it was a pay site, so I could only read and not post. Nobody has given him any help so far and he still can't get the stains off. He's tried just about everything, too.
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Re: [mjfpilot]
by terceltom
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Oct 01, 2008 (8:59 pm)
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Replying to: mjfpilot (Oct 01, 2008 10:24 am)
Gotcha ! Yea, sounds like a big problem. Maybe no clear coat on the lower panels? Tar would not have permeated the clear coat. Feel for ya, but still don't see Toyota paying for your daughter's unfortunate circumstance. Again I repeat, sounds like an insurance claim. If I was attracting tar like a magnet on all twelve vehicles you owned in the past like you say you do, then I would have started buying black cars along time ago. Good Luck !
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Re: [terceltom]
by slowlearner1
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Oct 02, 2008 (6:38 am)
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Replying to: terceltom (Oct 01, 2008 8:59 pm)
Please understand. I am not comparing my Toyota to some perfect car. I am comparing it to 35 years of car ownership. I have owned many Toyotas and own 3 right now. If I were to get tar on my 09 Corolla, I would expect it to come off in the same way it has on all the others. I expect chips, but not at a much higher rate than I expect from my experience of driving in the same town 35 years. And I wouldn't expect people to have to buy a black car when they have been able to own white ones without problems in the past.
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Re: [terceltom]
by mjfpilot
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Oct 02, 2008 (10:36 am)
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Replying to: terceltom (Oct 01, 2008 8:59 pm)
Terceltom,
The daughter wanted a white corolla. My vote was for the black mazda 3. It drove a lot better, had more zip, while I thought the Toyota drove like a Granny's car. In the end the wife and daughter prevailed over the ever-smart, skirt-wearing
dad.
King of the castle but not the home,
Mike
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Re: Just a follow up [terceltom]
by grlady2908
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Oct 02, 2008 (11:47 am)
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Replying to: terceltom (Sep 22, 2008 9:30 am)
haha I tried on many occasions to have them simply repair (repaint) my vehicle, and they refuse. I like, almost love, the car except for this issue, and they insultingly unwilling to help.
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Re: [mjfpilot]
by kenym
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Oct 02, 2008 (12:44 pm)
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Replying to: mjfpilot (Oct 01, 2008 4:02 pm)
Those little brown spots you keep referring to is probably the primer showing through the paint not a special type of tar. ( Try another body repair shop ) . And by the way rubbing a panel with a gasoline soaked cloth is a LOT different than spilling gas on the panel when you fill up, and if or when this does happen you are suppose to wash it off. ( use the squeegee used for the windshield ). 
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Re: [kenym]
by imidazol97
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Oct 02, 2008 (1:53 pm)
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Replying to: kenym (Oct 02, 2008 12:44 pm)
>rubbing a panel with a gasoline soaked cloth is a LOT different than spilling gas
How? It's gasoline on clearcoat which is supposed to be exceedingly resistant to permeation.
>use the squeegee used for the windshield
That is not good. I quit using gas station squeegees because of people doing that. it leaves an oil smear on the windshield you clean with the water and the squeegee. It may not be apparent when doing the windshield but it will be when it starts to rain and the windshield will only smear.
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Re: [imidazol97]
by kenym
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Oct 02, 2008 (3:09 pm)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Oct 02, 2008 1:53 pm)
rubbing a panel with a gasoline soaked cloth is a LOT different than spilling gas
How? It's gasoline on clearcoat which is supposed to be exceedingly resistant to permeation.
Same way as if you get paint on your hands. Spill a little gas on your hands and it doesn't do much. However if you rub your hands with a rag with gas on it the paint is removed. Like you said it is still gasoline isn't it? I totally agree with you on not using the squeegee on your windshield. However that wasn't my point. I was just pointing out one way to get the gasoline off the paint.
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