I wanted to post this in the e9 section as well as because it doesn't matter what car you drive, this could happen to you as well. If I can save one member from having this happen to them it will put a smile on my face :lol:. And that is, be careful when spraying degreaser in your engine bay. I have to say, the products out there work amazing, however sometimes they work a little too good. Case in point, a product called Super Clean, many of you are probably familiar with it, comes in a purple bottle, it is a degreaser. Well, here is what happened, see pic. That VIN plate was in decent shape before spraying the engine bay; now all you can basically make out is the indent in the stamp of the VIN. Before, all the black paint was still on there, faded yes, but very distinguishable. I was....how do you say it?......Pissed? When I started washing everything down I looked at the plate and it was silver, not black...all the paint came off. But the stickers were fine, no problem. So, point is, make sure when you are spraying down your motor and engine bay with degreaser to mask the plate or any other older paint to metal that was not primered… I think that was the problem. It just washed right off and no way of replacing that since it is the VIN. Anything else I could probably repaint or get a new sticker, not sure what to do other than leave it as is and live with it. See stickers, they is fine, it was already faded like that, all other stickers look fine. Maybe this is common knowledge but it was a first for me and I've sprayed down engine bays before and never recall having this problem.
Nothing else. And it was a professional cleaner.
