E30 Zone

Anyone got any ideas how to get rid of bird shit marks? I have tried T-cut, but it made no difference. Fucking seagulls. Also, whats the best way to protect paint from further bird shit attacks?







You can't see the marks clearly from a distance, but there a 4 of them. All on my bonnet

Maguires painyt cleaner or maybe even a bit of petrol on a cloth?

bimmaman wrote:Also, whats the best way to protect paint from further bird shit attacks?

a gun!!

i know its to late but its always best to get the shit of as soon as it lands to prevent that from happening...

My car has two of these on the roof, have been there since i bought it.

i might try some petrol

whers jon when you need him!

bimmaman wrote:Anyone got any ideas how to get rid of bird shit marks?

c76 jon

Clean it off straight away, Cause the longer you leave it the more the acid in the shit burns your paint!!! Witch is what leaves the marks!!

Try a alkasalsa inside a bit of bread - the seagull will eat it - fly off then pop like a baloon - this will make you laugh and 4get about yr bonnet

all this advice and seagul bashing is all very well and good but what if it was like it when i bought the car, i want to get it off!!

Petrol eh? Never heard of this... you can actually feel the marks, like they have melted the laquer. Will petrol really work?

My pet hate after bird shite is cats! dont get me started on those waste of space animals. Shiting in your garden, and climbing up your car leaving scratch marks, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

try sanding the paint with 1500 annd 2000 grade wet and dry then polishing it up with a good polishing compound such as farecla G3 ideally on a buffer and then wax. failing that your off to the bodyshop for some paintwork

id agree go over it with some g3

just dnt get over excited and buff ya paint off

So thats what they are! On my car also, same colour as yours and dans. Maybe they are prone to staining.

g3? care to expand?

john-rambo wrote: failing that your off to the bodyshop for some paintwork

Or just leave it!

318-is wrote:g3? care to expand?

Cutting compound.

lots of elbow greece and T wax

Zayyan wrote:

318-is wrote:g3? care to expand?

Cutting compound.

how much? from were? an it only takes out poo rite not my paint?

So thats what they are! On my car also, same colour as yours and dans. Maybe they are prone to staining.

Maybe... black is one of those colours though, that just shows up every mark... a few weeks before the bird shit incident (all those marks were created on the same day) my brother wrote "clean me" in the dirt on the very same bonnet - you can still read it now, but not so clearly after he spent the morning T-cutting it

id agree go over it with some g3

I've heard of this G3, even asked for it at a local breakers. they wanted nearly £20 for a litre I didn't know if I needed that much, but also, how to use it, so just looking for other options...

318-is wrote:g3? care to expand?

Normally used with a polishing mop on fresh paintwork to give a flat finnish, but is also good for removing dullness/oxidised paint. You can use it by hand for getting crap like this off aswell

My paintworks had a right good dose of it

bird shite is bad news

it etches into laquer and longer left especially in sun the more damage caused

there is no easy solution
only way is to cut the laquer back and hope there is enough depth of laquer there to alow removal

g3 is perhaps a little course to start with.id use something less aggressive first and work your way up

there are dependant factors on how easy or hard it will come out if at all

first there is what the bird ate as berries etc are very acidic

second is condition of paint surafce

if it is oxidised and not in tip top shape then damage may look worse than it is due to contamination thats on surface already

id wash bonnet in fairy liquid first to strip old wax/polish off

then id clay the bonnet to remove contamination

then id use a good paint surafce cleaner meguiars or p21s

then id take another look

id then use a swirl mark remover again meguiars pro range has a reasonable one

if this isnt achieving the desired results then id look at using g3 on wet panel

remember tho that by hand and not by machine is going to take yo longer to get results

just be patient and if it starts to lessen keep at it

john

in future never wash your car,they only seem to shit on shiny cars

n future never wash your car,they only seem to shit on shiny cars

How true!

I think I might just let it get dirty and leave it for a while...

fuzzy wrote:in future never wash your car,they only seem to shit on shiny cars

Nope they shit on dirty cars as well. I havent cleaned mine since the hosepipe ban and they still shat on it

16azev_needed_for_my_e30 wrote:Try a alkasalsa inside a bit of bread - the seagull will eat it - fly off then pop like a baloon - this will make you laugh and 4get about yr bonnet

maybe worth paying a mobile Valeter to do it for you, at least then you dont have to worry about bring over zealous with the T-cut