lordretsudo

The other day I got home from work to find by far the largest bird sh1te I've ever seen adorning the front of my Impreza (I work at a petrol processing plant by the sea, so we get a lot of seagulls etc, in the car park). Anyway, I got home and washed it off, but was surprised to find that a mark was clearly visible on the paint where it had been. I got the polish out, but it was still visible. So, I got the T-Cut out, and then polished it again, to no avail. This morning when I washed the car, I used the clay bar, then polished it once more, but it's still no better.

I'm amazed that bird muck could cause this much damage in the few hours it was on the car for - I've never found it to be the case on any of my other cars. However, when I got it, my car had two marks on the paintwork which look like they were also caused by bird muck - I always assumed the previous owner had simply been careless and left it on for a long time, but now I'm not so sure... is there something wrong with the paint on my car, or do Subaru just use really crappy paint?!

RON

Sorry to say......Subaru just use really crappy paint!!!

corradoboy

You got it in one I made the mistake of picking some off with my fingernail. I've never had another car of any marque whose paint was softer than my fingernail

C2forWRX

citroens special black paint. its terrible. softer than soft and got a white undercoat

davedipster

My fiesta zetec s got shat on one day and it lifted the laquer off. The paint up till then was in great condition and I used zymol on it.
I've been told by people in the know...that it depends on what the little flying vermin eat and the time of year. Grrrr

WR 1mposter

iTrader: (1)

Every morning our car covered in seagul sh1te ,
this went on for weeks,the b&sturds were nesting
on our roof, could'nt shoot them copper lives two doors
away, i rang pest control £30 to get rid and destroy nest,
they came round when i was at work and never even
charged me !!!!!!!!!!!
trouble is most of the neighbours have the b&sturds
on there roofs to
but its not so bad,also the claybar+soapy water worked
a treat, paintwork like new again

tath

if they eat all the berries i think their plop becomes highly alkaline and damages paint. prevention is better than a cure and to this end i recommend a 12bore side by side.

Gutmann pug

Same thing happened to mine ........

StickyMicky

as above it depends on the food they eat

we valeted a brand new fiesta yesterday which has destroyed paintwork on it due to bird ****e

there was nothing we could do with it tbh

pauld37

Nah, bird **** eats through all paint, had it happen to Vauxhalls and Fords, its the acid..........dont ya know

Barney19

Month old WR blue WRX with 'sticky berry' sh*t on the roof. Has permanently marked it under the laquer despite Autoglym's best efforts. Only took 24 hours to do this.

P***ed off Barney.

mgcvk

I had a big birdy doo doo on our Fiesta roof, but as it started to rain I assumed it would just wash off overnight. Big mistake as most of bird poo melded to the paint and I can't remove it with clay bar or nuffink.

Andrew Timmins

I had the same problem with a black Fiat Cinqucento Sporting. The poop burned straight through to the white undercoat. The car was only a few weeks old too. Luckily the dealer resprayed the roof free of charge for me.

According to a Which? report from a while back Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection gave the best protection from Bird Lime.

Soulhustler

Sprats soaked in Rat Poison works for me, the offenders never seem to come back!!!!!