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      08-19-2014, 10:28 PM   #1
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Black - water spots

So spend time on my 3 month old 228i yesterday doing a complete clean and wax - w/ Meguiars Black Wax.

Come out to the car this PM from being in the rain and ugly water stains all over the place.

Is there preparation I can do to eliminate this?

Thanks.
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      08-19-2014, 11:54 PM   #2
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So spend time on my 3 month old 228i yesterday doing a complete clean and wax - w/ Meguiars Black Wax.

Come out to the car this PM from being in the rain and ugly water stains all over the place.

Is there preparation I can do to eliminate this?

Thanks.
man I'm right there with you. I've never had a car respond so poorly to RAIN before. looks horrible after every storm here...
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      08-20-2014, 11:19 AM   #3
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Same here. Looks especially bad right after getting hit with rain. The water spots look like black dirt.
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Thanks. Maybe someone will rescue us with a solution...
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      08-21-2014, 05:33 PM   #5
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Rescue? Doubt it, LOL but offer the help you might not like. First, besides moving to Palm Springs, I bet your car HAS to sit outside...thus a night time rain, then drying brings spots on...same thing if at work, and it rains at 10 and then dries by ride home time. Oddly enough, I actually will wipe it down if still wet before leaving and rain has quite . Even at work in the carpark.

For the dried spots you asked about---you can carry a spray bottle of a good spray on wax or shine spritzer & several microfibers in car boot. Out on a trip or at home, at end of day, just walk around, spritz it good, and wipe it down carefully. The water spots need a good soak though and keep a good layer of wax on surface to simply protect your wiping efforts.

Obviously if you have a deep layer of road dirt dried on from the rainy trip home, then it requires something like the "spray wash"---and not a lot of aggressive wiping. And always in the above, use lots of clean sides of microfiber cloth. One ought not take too many swipes with same cloth section over a new paint area.

It's the bane of a black car--water spotting and constant care. But, if one has a process, and the carried equipment, and takes 5 minutes to spray and wipe down--much of it can be "rescued" as it were. Each time though.
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