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North America will soon be filled with refreshing, cool air all around in the late fall season, which will calm everything down and bring a serene atmosphere around you. However, the same will also bring some inconvenience as well as the trees fall off and land on your vehicle. Whether there is a tree or not around where your car is parked, it will find its way regardless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tree sap is great for trees but is a pain for everyone else especially car owners. The sticky substance is hard to remove and requires harsh chemicals like tar and bug remover, which will harm your paint job like anything. That being said, there do exist some easy, creative ways to remove the tree sap and protect your car\u2019s paint job from these \u2018emissions\u2019 from the nearby trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s article is here to provide you a guide to removing sap off your car easily. And yes, we are fully aware of how important it is for you to protect the car from any exposure to bird crap, tree sap, bug guts, and what not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Does Tree Sap Damage Your Car\u2019s Paint Job?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, tree sap is highly acidic in nature. Nevertheless, many people are confused between tree sap and tree resin. There are two different forms of tree sap, which is emitted from the water, soil, and trunk of the tree and is then distributed through its leaves. The sap has some sugars that give life to the tree as they are essential for its food. And yes, these sugars are also great to damage the paint job on your ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, tree resin is composed differently. It acts more of a protective agent against insect attacks and infections for the tree. Either way, both of these cause the car paint, headlights, plastic trim, and other components of your car to damage like anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tree resin or sap won’t damage your vehicle surface initially, but since these have various acids and sugars in them, if ignored they will start eating your surface up. And when this begins to happen, it etches through discoloring, stains, and many other problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Avoiding Tree Sap?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is no magic number found yet for how quickly should tree sap be removed, as the substance exists in various concentrations and should be removed right when you see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best and most obvious way of avoiding tree sap is not to park under or near trees. If you live or work somewhere, where the only option is parking under a tree, use a vehicle cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steps to Remove Tree Sap from Car<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lets now dig in the main part of this post. Removing tree sap depends on the concentration and grade of the sap, though it can be broken down using a bug and tar remover or rubbing alcohol. However, this is where many vehicle owners just walk away and the real damage begins thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These removers are not good for the clear coat and other components of your vehicle. They have high acid concentrations and will cause further damage if the area they are used on isn\u2019t washed and dried as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Products Required to Remove Tree Sap<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So, here we have jotted down some simple steps to remove tree sap off your vehicle surface:<\/p>\n\n\n\n