My good friends/tenants got married last Saturday. Of course, the car got “decorated”. :mad:
The bar soap writing came off just fine but the caramel syrup writing and American cheese slices have become one with the paint; hard as a rock. Any ideas on how to get this crap off without damaging the finish??
It is going to be hard, but a pressure washer at a do-it-yourself commercial car wash should be able to do it if you get the stream very close and spend some time with it. Anything else may damage the paint even more.
For the caramel syrup, I’d recommend soaking a dishtowel in scalding hot water, then draping it over the affected area - leave it there for a good, long time and hopefully it will rehydrate the residue sufficiently to soften it and allow removal.
The same approach might work with the cheese, although water might not do it because of the fat content - I was going to suggest spreading it with mayonnaise and covering with a wet cloth, but I’m wary that the mayo might itself spoil the paint.
How about having the care professionally valeted and sending the bill out with the ‘thank you’ cards (assuming that you can identify the perps).
Caramel syrup and cheese? Where I’m from, we call that vandalism.
Have weddings gotten so seriously wacky that people are damaging the newlyweds’ car for fun? Guess I’m out of the loop - last wedding I was at was when shoving cake at each other’s face was a relatively new phenomenon and hadn’t evolved into the food fights I’ve head tales of.
I second the ide of enclosing the cleanup bill with the thank you cards.
The groom can identify the perps but he’d never go for that. The head perp is his younger brother.
We must be from the same place, property damage isn’t funny at all. I don’t even think the cake smushing is funny; I respect my mate too much to do that. (and cake smushed is cake you can’t eat!) BUT… I’m not above kicking someone’s ass for ruining my car even if we are related! 
There’s been a tradition of decorating cars since well before the 1950s, although I don’t know when exactly it started. But you’re not supposed to use anything worse than soap or shaving cream to “paint” the car (and even then you should only be doing things like writing “just married” on the windows or something), and tying shoes and tin cans to the bumper with ribbons. I second the notion of getting it professionally cleaned and sending their “buddies” the bill.