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[notty]

Probably a stupid question, but one that needs to be asked.

How do I easily remove the diesel stains from beneath my filler cap. The bodywork on my Deli is silver by there and it looks so unsightly. I tried using neat fairy liquid and a green plastic scouring pad and it doesn't shift it. I do have other things to hand, ie, industrial grafiti remover but I'm scared to spray that on as the Deli may just fizzel away in front of my very own eyes !

Happy new Year to everyone by the way...and thanks to Mystery or lewis for answering my last new thread which i can't remember.....don't know where it is and what it was about either sorry..


Notty

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[Foxy]

erm.....I wonder if WD40 might do it?

.....and was it you?  The biker in me says try filling more carefully    

Hope you get it sorted asap :D

Best Wishes,

Foxy

[kenr1]

Hi M8,
Just gunk on it, sorry that should be use some gunk on it  :D  :D , then polish and a good wax. :D  :D

HTH
Ken  :D

[kenr1]

Hi,
Forgot to say, if the gunk does not take it off/out, you will need to polish it out I would also recommend Meguiars stage 1 & 2, stage 1 is the cleanser, stage 2 is the polish.
Ta
Ken

[Lewis]

[2wdsteve]

we used baby wipes ,  i thought the same when i was told , but it works

cheers

steve

[Foxy]

....which leads me to ponder   ...what do you use on ............  nah....never mind.....

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[bradburypizza]

I use car plan tar remover works a treat
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baby wipes are ace they shift all sorts (ball pen on paintwork, ball pen from carpets, finger residue from paintwork - like banisters - finger residue from computer keyboards in fact almost anything) makes you wonder what they do to baby's doesn't it!


I even keep a pack in the car and a pack by my desk at work - wouldn't be without em (even without the baby!)
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[2wdsteve]

i wondered what this might start lol

steve

[notty]

Thanks for all of your help and advice. I can see the gunk thing the first option as I remember its great stuff.....no baby wipes here, the kids have grown up soooo fast!

I wonder if there's anything on the market that i can spray or wipe on the area beneath the filler cap that will repel such grime so i don't have to get my elbow grease out next time. All answers welcome, but not on a postcard, there's enough junk coming through my mailbox as it is lol.

It didn't seem to bad during the late summer and autumn, maybe it's just because of all of the traffic film out there....

Thanks everyone for your answers

Notty

PS Perhaps I'll try not to spill any diesel next time I fill up, the problem is I have an Obsessive Compulsive disorder to keep my Deli full to the brim......yes I know before you ask...its a bit weird but that's me.......

[Lewis]

[Foxy]

...but better FOR ALL CONCERNED if you don't spill any in the first place    Cheaper and cleaner for You too!  :D  :D  :D

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must admit Iam careful in all our vehicles ( we are a 'fuel of the devil' household) fillin them partly because it makes a mess, but more importantly because i have ridden bikes and i KNOW how slippy a fairly small amount of diesel on a damp roundabout is - if you have ever had wheel spin on a roundabout in a car and thought 'crikey i didn't think i had stepped on the loud peddle that hard' the odds are you just found diesel on a wet road - on a bike its *much*more interesting!

Now I know the amount of diesel your talking isn't likely to be much, and its far more likely to come from a lorry (or more likely 'satans hatchback' - or a bus as they are commonly known) where they are overfilled and you get a pool on top of the tank (until they go round a corner or stop sharply at which point its all over the road!), but I think its down to all of us to do our part and ensure we don't contribute and its seen as the totally anti-social practice it is (its as bad as drink driving in my book!)

rant over....
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[Foxy]

I'm fed up of getting the damn stuff on my hands when I fill up too!    And slipping on foot...and getting it inside my lovely Deli.......

....and I did come off my bike on diesel.......

[Lewis]

I had a big problem with a nosy, officious, neighbour complaining about oil deposits on the road, which I knew were not caused by me.  So one day when she was out gardening I got out my pressure washer, filled the soap container with Gunk and set to for close on 90 minutes doing the area to the front of my flat.

The road, Kerbstones and footpath all got the treatment and were gleaming when I had finished.  The next day I went off for two weeks to Spain, in my Deli.  When I got back the road was as bad as before I cleaned it up.  I went knocking on her door and made her fully aware of the fact I had been away and the road was mucked up, and I wouldn't be cleaning it again unless I spilled something myself.  She hasn't said a thing since.  

It seems the problems were caused by local council vehicles who park in front of my flat whilst I am away filming etc, during the day, I actually thought it was another neighbour, who thought it was another neighbour, but had spotted the culprits whilst I was off due to the obvious black patches standing out so much.
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[billy bob]

never come off the bike on diesel, but do remember 1 Thursday night (around midnight)just on my way back from the dorset meet(where i met myself as no one else turned up (rusty:lol:)) takeing first exit off roundabout (fuel station on roundabout with only 1 exit that makes you go straight onto roundabout(can you see where its going ) well at about 50mph in 3rd or 4th (Can't remember now) the back wheel let go, well being well tiered (doing 800miles in 2 nights after work) i thought sod it this is fun so stayed on the loud "peddle", well a couple of hundred yards later at(well lets just say it must have been a private road) above Deli top wack the back wheel finaly came back straight, in light of day it was very silly and i was lucky, as reactions were slow due to fatige. But it was fun  
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[Foxy]

BillyBob...   Reminds me when I "lost" a 7.5 tonner on a roundabout...I think THAT must have been diesel on a wet road. Now THAT was scary. Thank g*d no one else was on the roundabout!