Anti fouling someone else's car by accident.

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It is surprising just how far antifoul roller spatter will travel, even in light winds. I did exactly this to my own car (company car) 6 seasons ago. The car was less than a month old at the time!

I was mortified to discover what I'd done. Very fine droplets on the windward side. To the touch, it felt just like over-spray.

Because the car was new, I didn't want to try anything potentially aggressive on the paintwork. Nothing seemed to shift the antifoul. However, over the course of time, about a year or maybe more, it resolved itself as a result of normal, regular washing. My situation was probably helped by the car having a highly polished finish.

Not something to do twice!
 
davidjackson said:
It is surprising just how far antifoul roller spatter will travel, even in light winds. I did exactly this to my own car (company car) 6 seasons ago. The car was less than a month old at the time!

I was mortified to discover what I'd done. Very fine droplets on the windward side. To the touch, it felt just like over-spray.

Because the car was new, I didn't want to try anything potentially aggressive on the paintwork. Nothing seemed to shift the antifoul. However, over the course of time, about a year or maybe more, it resolved itself as a result of normal, regular washing. My situation was probably helped by the car having a highly polished finish.

Not something to do twice!
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Probably better to do this with eroding AF, not hard AF!!
 
snooks said:
Problem this week end was there is no way a crane could have got to an offending car, they were parked everywhere.
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Saturday certainly the case. One of the yard employees was chatting to me and said he really fancied getting the boat mover out and asking people to move their cars just to see the chaos it would have created.

Sunday - was a tumbleweed day. Except for 1 car!!!
 
DJE said:
"This is a working boat yard. People parking here do so at their own risk"
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At own risk is an attempt to remove responsibility under Tort but it is no defence in law if reasonable care has not been exercised by the person causing the damage.

Taking to the rediculous extreme the statement would permit me to go round slashing the tyres of all the expensive cars that I am envious of as after all they parked there at their own risk - think about it!
 
Sailfree said:
At own risk is an attempt to remove responsibility under Tort but it is no defence in law if reasonable care has not been exercised by the person causing the damage.

Taking to the rediculous extreme the statement would permit me to go round slashing the tyres of all the expensive cars that I am envious of as after all they parked there at their own risk - think about it!
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Not quite, that's more like wilful damge. Taking it to a bit less extreme. You park in a car supermarket at your own risk but you don't expect everyone to go around bashing trollies into cars and saying tough shit you parked at your own risk. That's how the OPs attitude comes across to me.
 
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Spyro said:
Not quite, that's more like wilful damge. Taking it to a bit less extreme. You park in a car supermarket at your own risk but you don't expect everyone to go around bashing trollies into cars and saying tough shit you parked at your own risk. That's how the OPs attitude comes across to me.
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There is a significant difference. If someone pushes a trolley into a car parked in car park that is still wilful damage.

A better analogy would be seeing an area of the supermarket car park cordoned off for tarmacking. parking where they are working and claiming that tarmac splashes were wilful damage
 
Had a similar experience at Port Solent last year. A car was parked rather close to the boat and the yard management set about organising a dust sheet to prevent damage. In the event the car owner turned up and moved it. I guess there are boat yards and boat yards.
 
I don't think thinners will harm car paint.My car seems to get very small dots of something on the front doors mainly at the bottom.Cant see them, but can feel them.Tried thinners and they came off.Nothing else seems to move them.What could it be?
 
explores said:
I don't think thinners will harm car paint.My car seems to get very small dots of something on the front doors mainly at the bottom.Cant see them, but can feel them.Tried thinners and they came off.Nothing else seems to move them.What could it be?
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Tar
 
It would be fun to find some mild, easily washed off ' paint ' of the same colour as one's antifouling, then put splodges all over the car which parks idiotically close preventing work on the boat...:)
 
I find "treat others as you would wish to be treated" works well.

I'd suggest to the OP that he thinks about how he would wish someone to treat his car if the roles were reversed, without getting into the why's and wherefore's of whether the car should be parked there in the first place, otherwise it comes across as punitive.
 
Comrade Red said:
I find "treat others as you would wish to be treated" works well.

I'd suggest to the OP that he thinks about how he would wish someone to treat his car if the roles were reversed, without getting into the why's and wherefore's of whether the car should be parked there in the first place, otherwise it comes across as punitive.
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I would expect someone to take reasonable steps to find me - i.e. ask the nearby boats / yard staff whose car it was. I would expect them to start as far away from my car as possible to give me the maximum time possible to get back to move it. If I didn't get back, I would expect them to paint carefully to minimise spatter.

I wouldn't expect dust sheets but would be really pleased if it was done. I wouldn't expect them to delay their plans.

In short if parked my car where others might be painting and it got spotted then it would have been my fault for not taking adequate precaution to protect it, in the same way that if I left it open with the keys in, in a dodgy public car park then I would have to blame myself for it's theft. ( as would the insurance company I expect)

I take the line in life that we are basically responsible for ourselves and our possessions and that we should take reasonable steps to protect them and not expect others to have to put themselves out to compensate for our own (lack of) actions
 
jac said:
I would expect someone to take reasonable steps to find me - i.e. ask the nearby boats / yard staff whose car it was. I would expect them to start as far away from my car as possible to give me the maximum time possible to get back to move it. If I didn't get back, I would expect them to paint carefully to minimise spatter.

I wouldn't expect dust sheets but would be really pleased if it was done. I wouldn't expect them to delay their plans.

In short if parked my car where others might be painting and it got spotted then it would have been my fault for not taking adequate precaution to protect it, in the same way that if I left it open with the keys in, in a dodgy public car park then I would have to blame myself for it's theft. ( as would the insurance company I expect)

I take the line in life that we are basically responsible for ourselves and our possessions and that we should take reasonable steps to protect them and not expect others to have to put themselves out to compensate for our own (lack of) actions
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There's still a few spots of antifoul on the back wheel of my motorbike, if you look really carefully.
It seems to have stuck really well, considering the wheel was well smeared with chain lube.
It's been there nearly 10 years!
I guess there is a lot of solvent in AF that cuts right through any wax etc.

It's a problem that's not hard to predict, poly dust sheets are very cheap in Screwfix.
Get a few and be prepared, Sod's Law says you won't need them then!
 
Quick invention from the recycling bin - a cardboard splash / splatter guard for the roller?

Kind of an upside down dustpan shape, fashioned round the handle that catches any drops and spatter?

Not that you should have to resolve the situation.


I keep a roll of masking film, very thin, folds out wide, snip off what you need and tape it. Very cheap.

Keep the roller speed down to avoid splatter, it's expensive enough and I want it on the hull not the floor.


The tar spots on the car doors need a clay bar & spray lubrication to remove without thinners. Or fit some wider mud flaps?
Thinners - will thin.

Tony
 
I think if you are anti fouling it is your responsibility for what you do, both in the scraping off of a toxic material and the painting, likewise the owner of the car is responsible for what they do ie, if you end up in front of the judge (racking up cost) the defence would be "why did you park your car in a working yard while people were antifouling" or going back to page one of the thread, get some sheeting (cling film is really cheap) and paint away.
I bet the owner will come back to the mess they can't claim for!!
 
Next time your out and about gey some cones and rope off your working space.

As for the antifoul in the boat, its your fault but beither party would be bothered to go through small claims. Well some do.
 
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