I had a problem with the front bumpers on some trucks I did this past weekend. The love bugs have been real bad for the past couple of weeks and the front of the trucks were covered in them. I presprayed them with soap and then washed as normal. The soap didn't help much because I still had to mostly rely on high pressure to get them off. I can handle using the high pressure on the bumpers but not on the front of the painted grilles(macks). Also when I got all the bugs off you could still see where each bug was. You could brush it off, but, there's that brush word again. Am I going to have to suck it up and brush it or is there a better way?
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The love bug aka the march fly, honeymoon fly, telephone bug, kissybug and double-headed bug. Brushing sucks but some times it has to be done. I would try turning up the heat and maybe washing the fronts twice. Bug scars that remain maybe removed with the second wash or maybe even 2-step to remove the last remaing bits.
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Hi James, BriteStar here I find the best method of removing bugs since we brush all of our units is using a good quality soap that really cuts road film. We use a 2 man crew on larger accounts. However weather your using a crew or going it solo we sometimes find ourselves pouring alittle consentrate in our wash buckets and the bug issue will come off like butter. Rarely we use hot water during the summer months, cost issues you know. But for the amount of time your knocking off the bugs with high pressure leaving scars a good quality soap will do the trick and in the end will be cost efficent. Hope I was helpful P.S. try it ant let me know how it works for you.James S said:I had a problem with the front bumpers on some trucks I did this past weekend. The love bugs have been real bad for the past couple of weeks and the front of the trucks were covered in them. I presprayed them with soap and then washed as normal. The soap didn't help much because I still had to mostly rely on high pressure to get them off. I can handle using the high pressure on the bumpers but not on the front of the painted grilles(macks). Also when I got all the bugs off you could still see where each bug was. You could brush it off, but, there's that brush word again. Am I going to have to suck it up and brush it or is there a better way?
Jamson Labertories http://www.powerkleen.com/index.html (Tampa) has a lovebug remover. I pumpspray on let soak a minute wash off. Citrus degreaser also works (walmart). If the link get removed call me.
jetstream1
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HI, I know what you mean about the love bugs on trucks I have lots of account from Daytona to Orlando and and the love bugs are bad this time around Check out Auto magic.com they sell a bug remover that will not harm the paint or the rest of the trucks most of the site is made for auto or get back with me and ill give you a number for daytona and paul will ship to your home or biz I buy most of my stuff from him ,from acid to soapJames S said:I had a problem with the front bumpers on some trucks I did this past weekend. The love bugs have been real bad for the past couple of weeks and the front of the trucks were covered in them. I presprayed them with soap and then washed as normal. The soap didn't help much because I still had to mostly rely on high pressure to get them off. I can handle using the high pressure on the bumpers but not on the front of the painted grilles(macks). Also when I got all the bugs off you could still see where each bug was. You could brush it off, but, there's that brush word again. Am I going to have to suck it up and brush it or is there a better way?
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Mean Green from Dollar General has always worked for me. It's a butyl based degreaser. I've also heard good things about Simple Green.
If ya let those bugs stay on there more than a week or so, they'll actually screw up the paint job. They have some kind of caustic or acidic subtance in their blood.
Sidebar: What if they weighed about a pound apiece?
If ya let those bugs stay on there more than a week or so, they'll actually screw up the paint job. They have some kind of caustic or acidic subtance in their blood.
Sidebar: What if they weighed about a pound apiece?