So I went to wash my recently bought (from a used car dealer) 2010 wrangler last night. Foolishly I used a power washer similar to this one ... ... set on the pinpoint spray instead of the wide spray on the nozzle. Luckily I started with the bumper and not the painted body panels. Well... it stripped off some of the black off of the bumper. Just a small part.

DId I just powerwash off some kind of black bumper refinishing product? Or did I REALLY screw up?

Edit: I finished up washing my jeep with the wide-spray nozzle setting and had no problems with the rest of the bumpers and paint job.

 

You probably ate the plastic, luckily the factory bumpers are cheap (or free) and very easy to replace.

 

Well, when i looked closely... there wasnt any permanent damage to the plastic. Just a color change (faded black vs shiny black). I recently took off the front silver cover (that comes on saharas) and behind it was the same faded color.

 

As an additional note, don't use high pressure water when washing a car! It's brutal on your paint. Also forces debris into the paint surface. I cringe every time my neighbor washes his new $50k car with a pressure washer.

 

How else am I going to get the bugs off?

 

Elbow grease

 

I find liquid windex especially effective in removing bugs on the vehicle.All it does is strip the wax (but not harmful to the painted serfaces...

 

I gots a bumper fer you.

 

Bug and tar remover........ also works great on baked in brake dust that has sat on painted wheels...... that is my biggest pet peeve.... please wipe that stuff off your wheels before it turns orange.

 

Sounds like the bumper may have been painted.. Some peeps apply a coat of plastic dip which goes on a flat black color or maybe a rustoleum black. If it was painted with plastic dip then it well peel off if you rub your nail over the peeled part. Whereas if it was sprayed with normal paint it would be harder to take off and most likely chip off you try to remove it. Good luck Augi