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bloody birds!!
- Thread starter FiXX
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I had some seagulls (must be because of the size of the splatter) leave three big marks on my car over the weekend, noticed it this morning and washed my car this evening.
Even Autoglym super resin poilish wouldnt remove the marks in the laquer, does anyone know of a good more abrasive polish that may help as these are quite large marks.
nah same happends on any car with water based paints. has happend to my clio as well a number of times. ya have to remove the sh*te as soon as possible. make sure you get it right off and not just lossen it as it will still eat into the paint. have tryed to polish some out and some that you catch early will come out and some that have been on their for a while wont.
Ford Fiesta
i had a big pile on my bonnet too one hot sunny day a few week back.
Washed it off with water cos I was at work no other stuff available, a big mark there. gutted I was. came back 3 hour later and the mark was not there any more. No one had touched it either, I dunno what had occured. Maybe the sun had melted whatever mark was left but it certainly wasnt there.
thought id had it with the 182 cos there was a mark on my dynamique that wouldnt budge at all from bird poo.
have you got a pic of the offending part of your pearl blue paint fixx? Renault paint isnt that strong really, mind dont suppose any is these days.
Ive even carried water around with me before now to get it off asap, needs to be like as soon as you see it, the mark on my dynamique was there less than 2 hours. The mark on my 182 what went away on its own was there less than 3 hours.
At the worst times of the year for birds, I always have some water with me. As for cats jumping on the car and scratching it not a lot I can do to stop that.
Memories are flooding back now.
Id swear one of my platinum 1.2 16vs had a very small faint yellow stain on the bonnet and I think that maybe was caused by bird sh1t. Funnily enough I got very tiny yellow spots around my wheel arches from where tiny specs of wonderwheels flicked on it even though I hosed it off dead quick.
Must be something crap with Clio paint. Odd though cos I found the Clio paint very tough and scratch resistant. The paint on my Vectra on the other hand would scratch or peel off if so much as a blade of grass rubbed against it yet was completely immune to birds sh1t.
was told the other day that they have only 3 coats or something silly like that and cars like vw and audi have 5?????
3 coats? yeah primer,paint,laquer
Liam: no pic sorry my digi cam is poor and wouldnt pick it up but anyway:
I bought autoglym paint restorer and its done the job very well its almost completely gone can only see it now if you look hard
Wierd thing tho my old iceberg silver 172 would have piles of sh*t over it for days at a time and it always came mark free
[Edited by FiXX on 31 August 2004 at 7:25pm]
silver hides any mark well thats why a lot of people have silver.
The best abbrasive polish i have come across is from a company called simple solutions (not sure if they are a national company or what, they do mail order so should be) They have a product called G-Force. Unbelievable what this stuff will shift off your car! Have to be carefull with it though cause if you dont use it right then you end up leaving dull paint work with polish scratches everywhere. Best to do a small area at a time if doing an entire car or just use it on the tuff stuff.
Actually managed to get a key scratch out of my mates car with it, thats how good this stuff is!
Guilbert
According to Which? the best thing to use to prevent this happening is the autoglym extra gloss protection stuff on top of your normal polish. Its got the best resistance to bird crap for up to 3 months.
GazTwo
ClioSport Club Member
Blue c/w Gold Wheels
Ive used that Extra Gloss as recommended by a neighbour who has a W reg and said it goes on easy and off even easier, but must be older paint work as mine was a tw*t to get off!!!
But is good stuff...leaves a brillant finish.
Yeh bird sh*t is a bugger, left a mark on the bonnet of my five....have got a cover for the Williams though
...Wrapped up in cotton wool.
GazTwo
ClioSport Club Member
Blue c/w Gold Wheels
Yeh its a pretty good one Liam one of the breathable ones which u can just leave on, says u can put it on while the car is wet but I make sure its dry and the engine is cool before it goes on. Bought it at the Motorshow from Classic Additions, they have been around for years if u have a look in some old mags so must know there stuff.
Keeps the birds, cats and weather away
