![]() ![]() You will find that larger and more luxury cars expel off far more iron than smaller, lighter or cheaper cars.Īutomatic vehicles will also have far more fallout, especially iron filings, on their wheels due to the way that they are constantly pushed forward and require far more braking. This type of fallout is predominantly iron from the brake discs and brake pads. The most common problem you may come across is fallout on wheels. Just like new cars, all older and used cars suffer from the same external fallout contamination by driving near, or parking at, train stations, factories, industrial yards but also, from on-board factors such as brake discs and brake pads. Learn how to remove fallout from cars with our free guide! Used Car Fallout Problems Plenty of time for the paintwork to contaminated with fallout. This can obviously take a few days but most often takes weeks from being made to reaching the dealership. Once they finally reach the dealership they are far from being ‘new’. They get transported from one shipping port to another before heading on a transporter. They get delivered by boat and train which are full of industrial waste and fallout. Fallout can come from trains, industrial factories and shipping yards.Īs new cars get transported around a lot they are easily susceptible to fallout. You may be thinking why does my new car have small orange dots on the paintwork? This is caused from fallout. The most common problem that we rectify with new cars is finding fallout across brand new paintwork. You will also find your car having a problem if its been near someone grinding, cutting metal or anything with sparks! New Car Fallout Problems Park near a factory or industrial estate? Hot metal sparks from factories and manufacturing produces lots of fallout. It will quickly turn orange and brown the signs of metal beginning to rust! Where Does Fallout Come Fromįallout can come from nearly any application where there is metal on metal contact, but keeping on track and sticking to our industry knowledge we will be concentrating on common fallout problems on cars.Įver parked your car near a train track? The hot brake dust from trains covers cars in fallout. You can easily see if it is fallout if you use a traditional white clay bar. Your paint can be rough for a few reasons but the most common reason is fallout and tar. If you’ve ever rubbed your cars paint then you may of realised that it felt rough, or at least not as smooth as it should be like glass (unless your glass is affected by fallout!). If you have a dark colour car you may not be able to see the fallout or iron filings so easily but you can probably feel them. Rust can be seen as tiny orange dots most visible seen on white car paint. And once embedded the fallout can easily oxidise and therefore rust. ![]() Paint on cars is very resilient but the heat of the particles literally melts into the top coat. The tiny shards of hot metal can come from a variety of surfaces so has many applications but all comes down to the friction of metal on metal. The heat of the metal makes it easy to embed themselves into most surfaces they touch. They can come from a lot of places but mostly industrial areas. What Is Fallout On Car? Fallout is basically tiny shards of metal. ![]()
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