Removing spray paint from my race trailer?

Yeah, a freshly painted (literally finished yesterday) part of the building my shop is in and my race trailer were vandalized last night. We'll just paint over the graffiti on the building since we'll be painting anyway, but anyone got tips for getting it off my trailer?

The trailer could use a paint job anyway since it was sitting unused for about a decade but I really don't have the money for that right now. I also can't use it to pick up customer cars now with it's new "art".

Ugh, I hate vandals. The graffiti isn't even good.

I would recommend scrubbing it with the face of the vandal.

skruffy wrote: Yeah, a freshly painted (literally finished yesterday) part of the building my shop is in and my race trailer were vandalized last night. We'll just paint over the graffiti on the building since we'll be painting anyway, but anyone got tips for getting it off my trailer? The trailer could use a paint job anyway since it was sitting unused for about a decade but I really don't have the money for that right now. I also can't use it to pick up customer cars now with it's new "art". Ugh, I hate vandals. The graffiti isn't even good.

1: make sure the paint is not water based. Try soap and water.

2: buy a bottle of aircraft remover, it's good at removing aircraft from your paint, it should work at getting other paint off. After you get it back to clean polish, glaze and paste wax the hizzell out of the trailer. Paint does not stick to wax well.

If its metal or a smooth surface, rubbing compound might do it.

I'd hit it with brake clean first. That works pretty well on removing fresh, badly adhered paint from good paint. Someone tagged my trailer during the Targa, but I think he used one of those big bingo markers. Came right off with brake cleaner.

Fire...or that "goof off" stuff...or both, in reverse order.

Acetone is such an agressive solvent it will take off any recent paint. And not so recent paint. And really old paint. Never mind.

poopshovel wrote: Fire...or that "goof off" stuff...or both, in reverse order.

I knew I missed a step.

My Subaru got tagged recently. A local body shop used this stuff called Transtar Acry-Solvent. $10/can at my local auto paint supply shop. Works like a charm, also works on road tar and adhesives:

http://www.flippid.com/item/1000339093/9783_Transtar_Acry_Solvent_Aerosol

Do your best to get the spraypaint off as early as possible.