How to remove paint rubbed onto clearcoat??

Some rubbing or polish compound and cotton. Apply the polish compound onto the smeared area and rub it hard by hand with the cotton. Keep rubbing until the white paint disappears, and if the polish compound dries out, apply some more fresh compound. Use a smooth compound.

 

Ryan---Try the least abrasive product you can find and then move on to harsher polishes. I would try just some cleaner wax first, maybe a clay bar-- then move on to a light polish, then on to heavy polish if it doesn't come out. PM me if you need specific instructions---I can guide you thru the process....I have afew years of detailing experience----
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your not going to believe me, but WD40 will remove paint from , well paint, as well as sticky decal residue. i recently removed the crappy factory stripes off the rear tailgate of my 2002 nissan frontier with brake cleaner and wd40 applied to a rag. my truck is base / clear and its bright yellow. i keep a nice coat of Meguires on the truck and there was NO DAMAGE to the paint from doing this. i thoughly washed and re waxed the affected areas when i was done. i would try a small area first. do not spray anything directly on the paint, apply it to a CLEAN SOFT towel and remove the stuff that way.

i have also hit my own cars when moving them. ( muscle cars) i have used the above on paint to paint transfers with success. its not good for the urethane plastic bumpers on the 70s trans ams though!!!

 

Your car has probably has a urethane clear coat so it will be impervious to most solvents. If you are unsure of the type of clear coat, proceed with caution and try rubbing a sample of the solvent you choose on inconspicuous areas first to make sure the clear coat is not softened.
If the paint that is rubbed on there is latex, I would try to get as much off as you can with a rag soaked with lacquer thinner. Lacquer thinner will not dissolve oil based house paint as well as latex, but it will probably still "cut" the paint.
It would not be my recommendation to start out with rubbing compound, I would start with trying to remove the house paint with a solvent first because by the time you rubbed the house paint off, you could remove some of the surrounding clear coat or force some of the white paint into the clear.
The brake fluid idea is interesting, but I am not sure if the urethane is 100% impervious to brake fluid. I used brake fluid to clean latex paint off of an airless paint sprayer and it worked real well and did not dissolve the factory paint on the paint sprayer so it may be a viable solution.

 

brake fluid will remove his paint to bare metal! i said BRAKE CLEANER!!!! not brake fluid!!!

best bet would be to ask one of the detailer gurus on the site before you have a mess!!!

 

Been using lighter fluid for years to remove tree-sap.

 

Sounds like the Audi has a urethane paint. They certainly are tough, & have a great finish as well.

 

DuPont 2pack clearcoat on quite a few of them!!

Regards,
Phil.