Avoid Mobile I on Paint

[Art 138]

I recently changed the Mobil 1 synthetic oil on my Viper Mamba. Upon changing the filter I got oil on my gloves. As I pulled myself from under the car I grabbed the front end near the hood release. I wiped off the oil from the paint-thinking I would detail later. After about three days I noticed that the white paint had oil stains (yellow). I used every cleaner possible and had to buy professioal scratch remover to finally remove these stains. I do not know what the long term implications would have been if I did not get to this business in 3 days. Highly suggest you do not get this oil on the paint-in my case white.

 

[vincent_esq]

Thanks for the heads up. Never thought about it before.

 

[Viper Specialty]

as you will soon notice, the rubber door seals will leave yellowing marks on the white paint as well.

 

[Viperfreak2]

I didn't know about the oil. Maybe just synthetics do this? Trust me on this one, brake fluid is like acid. Even one drop will destroy the paint. Please do not pass this tip along to my X's. If they knew what a $.99 bottle of Dot3 could do to a car....

 

[dennis]

I didn't know about the oil. Maybe just synthetics do this? Trust me on this one, brake fluid is like acid. Even one drop will destroy the paint. Please do not pass this tip along to my X's. If they knew what a $.99 bottle of Dot3 could do to a car....

That's true, a friend recently gave me the advice to use brake-fluid to get the paint off old model cars... It worked almost better then sandblasting.

So is the white colour on the Mamba difficult to deal with?

 

[Viper Specialty]

So is the white colour on the Mamba difficult to deal with?

Easiest car I have ever owned. Looks clean even when its dirty, shows NO swirl marks.