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Bird crap & paintwork
Hi all,
Alberto Schileo wrote:-
>two pigeons had mistaken my hood for their
>toilet! So I immediately ran to the car wash, and gave the car a nice
>thorough washing. The bird crap could have been on the hood for a
>maximum of 1
>and a half hours, assuming it happened right when I walked away from the
>car.
>Well: imagine my surprise to notice that even though the clearcoat on
>the hood
>was perfectly smooth to the touch, if you looked at it with the light
>shining
>on it you could perfectly well see the blueprint of the two
>bird-craps!!!
Exactly the same thing happened to me (I'm in Ireland) but I couldn't be
sure that the culprits were pigeons! I tried polishing the marks off with
colour restorer (yes, I know that I was only polishing the clear coat),
but to no avail. I found that repeated applications of wax polish helped,
but no doubt only temporarily. Anyone out there have a cure short of of a
respray? Have to go & buy a 12-bore to prevent further problems!
Stewart Johnston
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"When I die, I want to die quietly in my sleep like my grandfather did,
not screaming in terror like his passengers" - Anon.