Mr. Clean™ Magic Eraser™ DOES Remove Tire Rub

I'll bet a tennis ball on a stick would've worked too. I once saw a guy at an airport using a tennis ball at the end of a stick to get shoe scuff marks off the floor. Worked like a charm.

I too find myself compelled to testify of the magical qualities of the Magic Eraser. You sold me Kate. I went out and bought a pack for the art galleries since I often have marks on the walls after hanging paintings/sculptures/what-have-you and I can't rightly take some wet sloppy paint and touch up the area of the wall for fear of getting the paint on the expensive art. So I used the Magic Eraser and, like magic, the marks came off. I started to use it on everything in the gallery.

I just don't understand how the eraser knows that I want to take the green paint off of the white paint - it leaves the white and whisks away the green. How is it that selective?

So are you getting paid by Mr. Clean for these plugs? If so, I demand a cut now.

I don't plug this stuff randomly, Art Man - and they don't use the word "magic" in the title of the product lightly. It's not just the Mr. Clean Cool Eraser, it's the Mr. Clean MAGIC Eraser�?� - and they MEAN "magic.

Actually, Chris, I'm not getting a red (or green or blue, for that matter) cent for my endorsements. I SHOULD get paid for my plug(s). I think I even included "lauds and honours" in extolling the virtues of the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser�?�. Lauds and honours (especially when the "u" included) don't come cheap. However, I'm inclined to think that Mr. Clean�?� might be more likely to sue me for stealing a picture of the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser�?� and including it without permission on my blog than to give me compensation as any sort of paid endorser. The"man" is always getting me down. It's a bloody shame; I could use the job.

I agree with you that the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser�?� USUALLY has mysterious powers of discernment when it comes to selectively removing marks and spots and such. USUALLY. Perhaps it's a snobby art thing. Cheap posters don't deserve the tender handling that REAL paintings and Honda Civic Hybrids which maybe actual works of art, in general, warrant?

Okay, so I'm operating under the talk show premise that if you repeat the name of the product enough - in this case, Mr. Clean Magic Eraser�?� - you MIGHT get a lil' kickback of some sort...

As for the tennis ball, it just couldn't have the MAGIC of the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser�?�. It's too fuzzy and yellow and not nearly scientific-sounding enough. (I believe that the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser�?� actually contains specially patented and scientific "magic" molecules.)

You can use tennis balls for lots of things, though. Apparently, they make those therapeutic walkers easier to move about if you cut slits in tennis balls and stick them on the front legs. Either that, or it's just the "in" thing to do with your walker or "apparatus" (that's the term if you translate it to Spanish and then back again). I'll have to ask my Mom (who had a walker post-surgically WITH tennis balls).

And don't dogs just LOVE to play fetch with them. I think they understand that the fuzzy properties of the thing hold the slobber in better than another kind of ball and they secretly derive great pleasure that you have to pick up an increasingly viscous, saliva-covered ball the longer you play fetch.

Wow

My search engine found this post in answer to how to remove tire marks from paint. After some clod attempted to move into my lane on the xway, I was left with 4" wide marks across the door and quarter panel. Insurance priced bodywork and repaint around 850 bucks. I couldnt tell if the door was really dented due to the large buildup of rubber, so I thought, "What the hell, give this a try!"

Voila! Instead of a trip to hell trying to get the body shop to match paint on one door, all it needs now is professional buffing and a piece of trim. There is still a dent in the quarter panel, but that's the only area that will have to have actual body work.

One thing. Instructions on the Eraser box say Do not use on fine finishes and specifically auto body. I kept the surface wet and clean and lightly rubbed with the Eraser...patience required -- it took about 30 minutes to get the heaviest stuff off. Keep in mind that we already planned on having it professionally buffed out. But even if not, a coat of wax makes it hard to detect where the Eraser has been.

Thanks for your help.

reido

Wow. You are most welcome.

I have SAVED someone from extra-expensive body work???? My life is now worth-while.

Mind you, though I USUALLY do, I did not read the instruction on the box (and if you are a MAN and did, I laud and honour you). As you may have read, I had BAD results using it on artwork (how surprising). Perhaps if I'd read the back of the box...

And since my tire marks were obviously not as heavy as yours, the finish (at least THERE) looked pristine. I still need to take touch-up paint to a little spot on the trim, which will match wonderfully because of a debacle I had with my bumper requiring a new facia and the paint job - as they come in PRIMER GRAY (if I need a specific Honda part I order it directly and have it come to my house - THAT was a big surprise - and a BIG box). Yes, I'm ignorant, but I found that even though Hybrids still come in Opal Silver Blue Metallic, evidently there are SUBTLETIES to each batch, blah blah blah. At least it was a good body shop. I cannot talk about this any more...**sniff**.

I suppose I could ALSO touch up all the spots on the doors that my NEPHEW made walking through the garage with his TROMBONE.

Hi Kate,

I just found your post on the internet and I thank God that there are people out there who have had the same problem as me.

About a month ago my wife and I were in a downtown parking lot Toronto and this jacked up pickup truck was in front of us.

As he inched his way out of the parking lot, into the congested street, he realized that he went out too far and decided to peel back and reverse into our bumper.

There wasn't any damage really, only the sharpie like markings he left on our bumper.

I've been racking my brain trying to think of a way to remove these markings and thanks to your blog, I am going to use the MCME(tm).

My wife is worried that the Eraser is going to take off the finish off of the bumper. Has anyone had a problems when using the eraser?
Can anyone confirm or deny that car's finish will still be shiny after we use the MCME??

Remember happy wife happy life?
(and a full nights rest) :)

Thanks again!

Hi again,

I just wanted to let you know since my last posting - I was able to completly remove all tire marks off of my bumper.

I started off with doing a small area to make sure
that the finish was fine.

The bumper is now clean as a whistle and I have MCME to thank!

It's pretty wicked stuff!

Sorry I didn't catch your first comment. When I used the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser�?� it did not seem to have any negative effect on my car's finish (and I ADORE the colour on my Opal Metallic Silver Blue Honda Hybrid). And the amount of tire rub was impressive.

I'm so glad it worked for you! Had I read you first entry I would only have said, as "reido" did that easy does it. And this is the one time I would say ignore the instructions on the box (which say don't use it on car finishes - I presume the are just covering themselves in case someone gets too over-zealous with the MCME and then decides to get all litigious about it).