Love Bugs Ruin Car Paint

Orlando sentinel.

Love bugs ruin car paint. Driving at night or early in the morning is the best way to prevent these annoying love bugs from sticking to your car. Soon our windshields and grilles will be covered with the splattered. Motorists should be aware that those pesky bugs can cause both cosmetic and mechanical damage to a vehicle. Their acidic fatty tissue left behind may damage the paint on your vehicle.

Car detail mobile we have a doctorate in detailing call me 904 599 1414 with questions. Love bugs can ruin a car s paint but experts say it s easy to remove them without damaging your vehicle. Twice a year in the spring and the fall clouds of these little black bugs make their appearance with a splatter. It s that season again.

Don t use a tough sponge or steel wool pad to remove bugs from your car it will scratch your paint. If the bugs have dried into the paint you may need to clean the car once then do another application of wd 40 let it soak in and clean the car again. Love bugs will ruin the paint on your car if you do not protect it with a good wax job or paint sealant. Share shares copy link copy copyshortcut to copy link copied.

If you catch the bugs before they completely dry one pass should be enough to clean them off. And 6 p m when temperatures are above 84 degrees. 6 51 pm edt may 6. They tend to make their love known between 10 a m.

Lovebug guts are acidic and can cause damage to car paint evening clogging radiators. A simple washing or even a wash with a high pressure hose won t remove love bugs once they have dried on the surface of your car. When they are active they may cause a tremendous amount of damage to your vehicle s paint if left on long enough.