Garage Door???

Since you guys know a lot about Saturns, and Cars, in general I thought
mabe you could help me out here with an O/T question. The other day I
cleaned my roll up metal garage door, and it seemed all right at first,
but now it has these spots on it like Oxidation. Is there any way to fix
this? Thanks in advance for any help on this!

What metal? Galvanized Steel or Aluminum? Painted or powder coated/baked
finish?
(Three questions for your three question marks)

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> Since you guys know a lot about Saturns, and Cars, in general I thought
> mabe you could help me out here with an O/T question. The other day I
> cleaned my roll up metal garage door, and it seemed all right at first,
> but now it has these spots on it like Oxidation. Is there any way to fix
> this? Thanks in advance for any help on this!
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>

4th question you forgot, Oppie - What did he clean it with? (Some metals
like aluminum don't like certain chemicals - Good example is when they
introduced the spray rim cleaners when Aluminum rims started to become
popular in the 1980's....I remember my sister's boyfriend spraying rim
cleaner on my mom's dirty rims...The next day they were pitted and
oxidizing...)...

IYM

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> What metal? Galvanized Steel or Aluminum? Painted or powder coated/baked
> finish?
> (Three questions for your three question marks)
>
> > wrote in message
> ...
>> Since you guys know a lot about Saturns, and Cars, in general I thought
>> mabe you could help me out here with an O/T question. The other day I
>> cleaned my roll up metal garage door, and it seemed all right at first,
>> but now it has these spots on it like Oxidation. Is there any way to fix
>> this? Thanks in advance for any help on this!
>>
>>
>>
>>

OK, it is an Aluminum door with a baked on beige factory finish. I just
used some Walmart general purpose spray cleaner on it, and then I rinsed
that off. And now there are some very light (oxidised?) large spots on
it. I tried rinsing it again, and that did nothing. Is there some other
kind of cleaner I could use to fix this? Thanks!

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> OK, it is an Aluminum door with a baked on beige factory finish. I just
> used some Walmart general purpose spray cleaner on it, and then I rinsed
> that off. And now there are some very light (oxidised?) large spots on
> it. I tried rinsing it again, and that did nothing. Is there some other
> kind of cleaner I could use to fix this? Thanks!

You could try some rubbing compound, i.e. 3M Perfect-It II. You have to
be careful with rubbing compound as it's a mild abrasive. It's commonly
used to remove oxidation from paint on cars, without removing more than
a very thin layer of paint.