Very badly dried bird poo...

[Mattyc531]

Hi all,

I've come back from holiday and unfortunately have a pretty large bird crap on my car, could have been there around 3 weeks I think. I've tried washing it off but it really seems stuck in there, I can even feels it's raised and has slight bubbles in. Is my paint screwed or can I salvage? Pics attached

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[enuff_zed]

Why do I always read these posts just before tea!

[ref]bigwinn[/ref] told me a trick I haven't had a chance to try yet.
Clean it off as well as you can. If it's left a mark then get a hair dryer on it. Seems it will warm the lacquer enough for it to move and smooth out the mark. Stuart can probably give more detail

 

[Pondrew]

Looks like seagull shite to me.
I would just keep it moist for a good few hours with a wet rag or similar. Then a couple of 'wet wipes' should get it off. Your paint should be fine but if there is any 'bloom' try T-cut.

 

[Chris_D]

If the seagull has managed to nab a bag of fish n chips from some poor unsuspecting tw@t walking along the promenade then its belly will have generated a bucket full of acid which probably now constitutes 10-20% of the composition of it's plop which now adorns your paintwork.

Warm water and washing up liquid will dispatch the caked-on crap easily but if it's etched a mark into the laquer then you'll need to crank up the DA.
:lol:

 

[bigwinn]

If it does leave a mark deffo go the heat route

I tried polishers and all sorts to no avail

Got a small heat gun (or missus hairdryer) on it and kept the heat on and moving

After about 5 mins it literally faded all of a sudden and went

The car was covered in them as it had been a south coast car

An afternoons work and looked good as new

 

[Lynchy]

Hi all,

I've come back from holiday and unfortunately have a pretty large bird crap on my car, could have been there around 3 weeks I think. I've tried washing it off but it really seems stuck in there, I can even feels it's raised and has slight bubbles in. Is my paint screwed or can I salvage? Pics attached

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Where are you Matty, if you are local I could help you

 

[MikeyH]

Looks like seagull shite to me.
I would just keep it moist for a good few hours with a wet rag or similar. Then a couple of 'wet wipes' should get it off. Your paint should be fine but if there is any 'bloom' try T-cut.

Ditto, that's what I do and we have lots of seagulls down here.

 

[buzyg]

As others have suggested if it leaves a dent in your lacquer warm it carefully. Someone was doing heat packs. Not sure if they caught on.

Here you go. Autoglym do them.

https://www.autoglym.com/reflow

 

[MikeyH]

We have heat packs that wifey got from somewhere to keep our coffee warm on those roof down winter drives. I think they are for muscle aches. Most likely from Amazon.