The jury is still out on a proposal by Mark Hangen to protect cars in RDU's parking garage by hanging cookie sheets from the ceiling above them.
But one reader of today's story on the RDU mystery goop went out and tried Hangen's tip for cleaning her gooped-up car -- et voilà! No more goop!
I've parked at RDU a lot over the last 5 years. I had some of this goop on my car, but I did not know where it came from until I started seeing articles about it in the N&O. Washing and waxing never removed the goop. This morning I tried the lemon juice suggestion that was mentioned in the article above. It worked perfectly and easily. The goop is gone. -- bgriset
Previous clean-up tips mentioned a home product called Lime A-Way. But this stuff has been reported to turn steel black, so be careful.
Bruce Siceloff reports on traffic and transportation. A News & Observer reporter and editor since 1976, he took over the 
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Clean up tips
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 03:04 — iamtannerI've never known that lime works on this problem until now. I have encountered the same problem on my ford car and I have always used wax and car soap. It is quite difficult to remove the dirt and sticky goop. I'll use lime on cleaning the exterior ford parts