any decent tar remover on the market

[STUPY]

the warehouse have a product i use on the bike and the car it's called 5 star- bug, tar & road grime remover, and this stuff really works!!!!!
(i can hear you all now "the ware-house?"

spray it on leave it for a minute rub with a cloth/ sponge and then rinse off.

it's auzzy made but works a treat

[homer]

Turtle wax just melts it.

scratch ands swirl remover

[R1madness]

Go to a paint and panel supply store. Ask them for a 1 lt bottle of bug and tar remover. the industrial stuff is heaps better than off the shelf at the warehouse. I get mine from RJ Pattersons here in CHCH.

[DEATH_INC.]

Last time I did this (aboot 5 yrs ago ) I always used turtle wax bug and tar remover, always worked well.

[Daffyd]

I use Amway Gel Bug & Tar remover. It's an aerosol.
Just spray it on, leave it for a couple of minutes and hose it off.
A couple of weeks ago I had the misfortune of coming across some bleeding tar on the road. It was so runny it was all over the outside of the front guard, motor, zorst, and tank.
One good spray and it all ran off.
I'm just about to order another can.

[Max Preload]

Fuelite (formerly white spirits).

[Grahameeboy]

Kerosene......had to remove a shit load of tar from all over the bike yesterday due to hitting a new road the other week, exhaust, engine, paint, you name it.....piece of cake

[scumdog]

(believe it or not) Peanut Butter works!

My mum use to be a car-detailer for a Rolls-Royce dealer in Glasgow (like waaaay back when) and she swore butter was the bees-knees for softening tar.

It works well to but you obviously have to clean up afterwards. (unless the cat licked it off first.)

[vifferman]

While we're all talking shit... er.. I mean tar I discovered recentlyish the benefits of brake cleaner, as an all-purpose cleaner. The old brake cleaners wwere basically acetone, but the New! IMPROVED!! formulations are basically one of the drycleaning solvents, and POIFICK for cleaning various substances from... well, anything really. I finally let the vifferbabe in on the secret this morning, when she said "Look! 'The boys' (i.e., "those dirty messy slobs our house is infested with") have spilt somthing on the carpet! Again!"
So, while she was wandering around the house muttering, I whippped out to the gargre, grabbed the brake cleaner, sprayed it on the unidentified spooge on the carpet, dabbed it with paper towels, and said, "Uh.. where's these stains?"
"Umm... they were round here somewhere....You've stolen them haven't you?"
"Hokay - d'ya wanna know the secret? You're gona freak out, so start waving your arms around in preparation."
[Grabs can of brake cleaner, presents with a flourish]



After the initial Shock! Horror!! reaction, I explained it's constituent secret ingredients, and that I'd already tested in multiple times, starting with the chain spooge that somehow transferred itself from the bike to my boot to the new carpet.

But it's great! Works on clothes, carpet, furnishings, etc, and even seems to be OK on brake parts! And if you buy it from SuperCrap Ottos, it's cheaper than the horrendously expensive shit they sell you for cleaning carpets etc., and it also doesn't leave a residue like those "Spray on, vaccuum off" products do.

[scumdog]

Brake cleaner huh?

Best stuff yet for knocking a wasp out of the air when one appears in your workshop/gargre.

One squirt and they're dead before they hit the ground.

[ManDownUnder]

Methanol. Hit the model shops and buy some glow plug fuel but do NOT use it on plastics...

[Owl]

(believe it or not) Peanut Butter works!

What do you use to remove Peanut Butter?

[xknuts]

What do you use to remove Peanut Butter?

Usually my tongue

[Daffyd]

I use Amway Gel Bug & Tar remover. It's an aerosol.
Just spray it on, leave it for a couple of minutes and hose it off.
A couple of weeks ago I had the misfortune of coming across some bleeding tar on the road. It was so runny it was all over the outside of the front guard, motor, zorst, and tank.
One good spray and it all ran off.
I'm just about to order another can.

Humph! They've stopped making it!

[Pussy]

Someone mentioned kerosene....about the best advice I can give as well. I end up with 1.5 litres of the stuff every day I work. Just gave the chain on my bike a good tung-up with it the other day, worked a treat