My cousin owned a car for awhile and when I got it there is fully dried sap, it takes the shine out of paint?

it looks like the sap takes the shine out of the paint, the sap makes a flaky kind of residue that i am able to scratch off, but when i scratch it off the paint is dull. i think the sap is taking off the clear coat on the paintMy cousin owned a car for awhile and when I got it there is fully dried sap, it takes the shine out of paint?
Your next step from here depends on how valuable the car is and how much the paint job means to you. If it is a pricey car, then you must seek help from a reputable paint/body shop. If you are not experienced at detailing and auto paint work, then you will not be able to judge the damage done to your paint or how to fix it. Any efforts to fix it yourself could likely lead to more damage to the paint. A good all-over paint job can cost $10,000 or more if it is done the right way.


However, if the car is not a luxury car and if you don't want to spend a lot of money and want to try and fix this yourself there are options. You can use a naptha based solvent to try and remove the sap. Be warned that this will take a very long time to do. It should slowly dissolve, and I emphasize the word ';slowly';. You will have to rub and rub until you are tired, but it should dissolve. Be aware that you could risk rubbing your clear coat off on the spots you are working on. If you manage to rub the sap off, you need to reapply wax to bring back the shine. My cousin owned a car for awhile and when I got it there is fully dried sap, it takes the shine out of paint?
Sap shrinks when it dries. As it shrinks , it pulls on the clearcoat,and leaves small cracks in it. Eventually it will take the clear off. NEVER scratch anything off the paint.
Hot water, soap and elbow grease. That's what takes it off. If you can get a buffer get some polishing compound, I use ';Mirror Glaze'; and buff it. You can do this by hand but it is a lot of work. Then apply tour ';wax.'; BTW I have a friend who is an excellent autobody man and he never uses any kind of ';wax'; on cars. He just buffs.
The best thing you could do is take it to a detail shop and have them buff it out. It depends on how old the car is and how bad the sap is. If the sap is thick over the whole car more than likely the clear will be so thin that when they buff it out they will go through the clear and you will need to paint it. Give it a try and see what happens.
You could try some bug and tar remover and see if that takes the sap off. After that wash the car and get a good POLISH, not WAX and polish the clear coat. Something like New car polish, or a turtle wax car POLISH, not turtle wax itself. Most car stores carry car polish.