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It is going to be a lot to read but, a Great Tip here if you are transporting your ride to FL using a Railroad Company.

Make sure you follow the steps below. These can be verified with any expert in the matter for your reference.

Make sure your car is ready for what it will be exposed to during rail transportation.
You can start with washing the car with a good car wash fluid with wax. Make sure the car gets the wax soap everywhere. I will tell you why later.
Wax the vehicle at least 3 times. More if desired. After waxing the car wash it again to minimize the static on the surfaces. You already may be asking yourself, why do I need this?
Well when I was in TMC, the metal dust found on the surface of anything transported for Toyota on ventilated containers on the US Railroad system created more than half (53%) of the paint related customer (Dist., dealer and Individual) complaints that made it all the way to our office in Tokyo. Most of them were lack of information, but still since they were not handled properly here in the US they made it all the way to us there. People thought it was rust and the red flag was the number of warranty claims we were paying the dealers and distributors regarding paint and corrosion. So we were hum...
Something is not right here. Using a concept called Kaizen we did studies on US air pollutants, sun rays damage and even went back to the manufacturing plants to revisit our paint agreements and sheet metal suppliers. We kind of knew what was going on, but we had to be sure before it was shared with the public. We were planning a 10 year Operating Plan (from 1997 to 2007) and it would change a few things here and there. We even had meetings and trainings with Dupont's polymer division. We visited the EPA agency in the US for pollution data since at one point the government claimed that the problem was brought in from Japan's highly polluted ports and that it was not a Railroad pollution problem. In 1996 we visited Long Beach, the Panama Canal, Texas and Jacksonville. We had some challenges since the distribution is not owned by Toyota we only provided the investment via Toyota Tsucho (the people with the money), and the main ports were putting the blame on us and wanted us to pay for the Warranty. The worst cases were found on vehicles transported inland, so they did not come from Japan like that.
It was determined as: "Raildust" or Metal Dust; the friction of the train wheels against the rails wears out both surfaces creating a very thin metal dust that moves in clouds like regular dust and deposits itself anywhere the air can go. With time, if not removed, and with exposure to the elements and changes in temperature, it will actually penetrate the surface and sink itself into the paint, including plastic bumper paint (people claimed rust on the bumper, but you know they are made out of plastic ). We increased the use of "Wrap Guard", that white cover you see on transported vehicles, to include even the outside rear view mirrors surface and the door handles. Toyota was the first doing this and other brands quickly copied. The government came back saying that the ports, since more "wrap guard" was added to the car at the port, were contaminating the land fields with mountains of white plastic and started charging us an additional import and disposal fee, so it was changed into a "photo degradable cover" which will degrade with time when exposed to sunlight.
After that we decided to offer trainings, first to the government agencies working with consumer affairs, then distributors in the USA and in the Caribbean including Puerto Rico's department of Consumer Affairs (DACO). Even when most of the vehicles in the Caribbean were imported directly from Japan, some of the Caribbean cars were imported from the US plants, which by the way use US Railroads to transport the product to Jacksonville and then out of the mainland.

So if you have to use that transportation system, do not use a car cover during the rail transport. If you are going to cover it with something after waxing it, use a plastic cover like the "wrap guard" with some kind of adhesive so the wind doesn't blow it away. And also it will prevent scratches when the dust gets under the cover via any opening on it and in case it starts rubbing. Some paint shops use a similar product like the "wrap guard". If you do not use it, that is fine, just make sure you pressure wash the car when it arrives. When the surface is wet, carefully and without applying pressure, run your hand over the surface and see if you feel anything. Some of them will not be easy to find. So you can use big chunk of cotton from your local Walgreen’s and run it over the surface. And you will see strings of cotton getting stuck where the particles are. You can be lucky and not get any rail dust but never hurts to check the surfaces upon arrival.

I know it is a lot of info. but when you get the car here and if you find that that is the situation, let me know and I will send you the process of removal. Most GOOD shops should know how to remove them using an easy process with a product called "Clay Magic". There are many ways to remove the particles, waxing is NOT one of them. I can send you the process recommended by TMC using oxalic acid and a separate baking soda solution. Note: do not use the Oxalic Acid if you do not know how to work with it or you will damage all metal exposed to it.

Well, this is just food for thought

Awesome, there you go Ern, I hope that answers your question.