On my door handle! Poured over boiling hot water and removed - scratched my black monte Carlo!!! fuming !!! Help pls

Fookin bords !!

W

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I've always found a feshly used (ie still hot) tea bag works well on

bird poo. Tea is an akaline solution and helps to counter the acid in the poo

which helps it eat through lacquer. The heat and the moisture soften it

making it easier to wipe away.

Make sure the tea bag is dripping wet though, may want to put a saucer

under it getting it from kettle to car. Apply bag onto poo like a plaster and drink your tea

and wait for it to work. You may need to do it twice if it's really baked on.

Make sure the tea bag is dripping wet though, may want to put a saucer

under it getting it from kettle to car. Apply bag onto poo like a plaster and drink your tea

and wait for it to work. You may need to do it twice if it's really baked on.

It's gotta be a Yorkshire tea teabag though, and proper blokes put it back into the pot once finished with the bird crap

It's gotta be a Yorkshire tea teabag though, and proper blokes put it back into the pot once finished with the bird crap

Only after it's been dried on the washing line though.

The only way to get rid of the scratches in the laquer is by using a cutting compound, something like Farecla G3 (with lots of water), should do it, i have all manner of cutting compounds, i personally like the Menzerna range but if you can try and use the least aggressive compound to get the job done. The next time any poop is on the car get rid of it asap, i keep and small pack of items in my boot for this type of thing should i be out and about and not have access to a wet tea bag ! Or a hot kettle ! I have some wet wipes, a lint free cloth and some of the lube used when claying a car, as long as you can soften up the poop before you rub it off it will be fine. Just do not do what a freind of mine did.... rub the baked on stuff off with a virtually dry dish cloth......... muppet.

Edited 30 October, 201213 yr by Hudson1

Boiling hot water? what does that do to your lacquer?

I use bird sh** remover, but you may have to buy some.

Mine came with the car bodywork treatment.

'It does what it says on the tin.'

Tony

Get in from the other side of the car and go to a car wash. No need to go anywhere near the aforementioned excrement!

Boiling hot water? what does that do to your lacquer?

Nothing the oven that bakes it on doesn't do already

I wouldn't have thought.

I hate it when birds think my car is a toilet :( sometimes I wonder, what the hell do they eat???

Anyways I got a pressure hose so soon as I get home I blast them until I give the car a proper wash.

Thanks for all the advice folks - used some colly after a good scub can hardly see it. Will keep wet wipes in boot from now in. Agree what do they eat !! bird shi** it seems to bond with the car - they always seem to target black cars too! Is there a correlation between the incidence of bird shi** and black cars? Bet someone will have a pHD in it!!

That's y'all

W

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I think red cars suffer just as much or even worse as they usually fade quite a lot in sunshine, too!

As for the sh-tuff that birides leave on the bodywork... Its the lime in it that eats the laquer and paint. It is quite corrosive and I think it is like this in part, to the fact that birds do not pee, they only poo so it needs to be a lot sloppier than most animals tummy rubbish. Imagine a big slppy poo falling from the sky at a fair old rate of knots, impacting on the paint and then getting baked by th sun! Not gonna do it any favours!!!

yeah, get the wet-wipes on it

I parked in Aberdeen to go to the Pictures. I was in a Black iQ, and as i got out the car and heard the seagulls i thought the worst.

a few hours later as i was coming to the car i expected mayhem.

Luckily a Yellow car had parked in front and it looked a little like the one in the picture above,

my car had just caught some that had blown in the wind.

A few weeks ago i bought a Renault Scenic to sell on.

It was a total bird magnet, they attacked it all the time when parked at my house & i could see why the Lacquer was so bad & needed attention.

The new owners has no problem with it where it is parked now.

I never usually have problems with any birds attacking any car around where the Scenic was parked.

george

A colour that local seagulls hated.