Okay, so I was hoping to never have to make a thread like this, but it's happened to me...vandalism!!!
I drove to the county court house yesterday to get my driver's license renewed. When I got out to pay the meter, I look down at my right front wheel and lo and behold it appeared as though someone had taken a black marker and scribbled all over my wheel. I thought to myself, "Self, there is no way on earth some hooligan would write all over your wheels in such a small town that hardly ever sees any major crimes."
So I crouch down to get a better look and rubbed away some of the brake dust even thinking that maybe something sticky had gotten on them and the brake dust was just sticking to these areas better than others. I rubbed and rubbed and even applied a little spit but couldn't do anything with the marks. You can see in the second picture that I was able to make some progress on one of the marks, but the top mark is more stubborn. I don't know if it's a permanent marker or what.
Does anyone know what could safely get these marks off without damaging the wheel itself? These are the RS painted wheels by the way.
Also, maybe I'm over reacting and have mistaken these marks for vandalism. Has anyone else seen this stuff show up? I mean is it just something on the wheel that collects there or what?
I'm leaning towards actual vandalism. I just can't believe it happened to me.
Oh, and before anyone thinks that maybe a meter maid marked them somehow, these marks were there WHEN I pulled up to the meter; so they had been there and I never park at the curbs of other places so no need for meter maids to be marking up my wheels. I thought they used chalk on the tires anyway.
Well, finally. Here are the pics. Sorry they are not of the best quality. They are taken from my $30 prepaid cell phone.