Bird crap!

Cuchulain

Cuchulain

Cuchulain

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If I had a shotgun and knew I wouldn't get arrested I'd shoot every bird in sight.

Anyhow, my beautifully kept Vectra I picked up was poo'd on this morning, tried to hose it off and it took the topcoat off leaving about an inch square of dull base coat.

I'm not going to pay for it to be resprayed so what's the best alternative?

No Vectra/Vauxhall jokes or obvious comments along the lines of "you should've removed it sooner", aim for constructive, if you can't manage that then don't post in here plz.

Thanks.
 
Needs to be painted, no alternative. I'm not sure what you are hoping for??

Are you saying that Bird crap ruined your paint within the space of hours? You'd normally need Nitromors to achieve that kind of effect :/
 
A big sticker LOL Guy I worked beside did that with his Supra, he kept changing between 2 different spoilers so had holes in the boot, just poped 2 stickers over it.
 
I've never had a problem with bird plop. How could it strip the top coat so quickly?

A possible legal solution could be to crap on the birds. I don't think you can do anything get get it painted really.
 
So it has lost the shine? Is it deep that you notice it with running your finger over it?

A few years ago my mate had a problem similar and we used cutting paste from Halfrauds, tiny bit water and tiny bit paste takes it down a wee bit then a damn good t cut and polish, i however aint an expert in this field and can only mention from my own experiences and mistakes but it worked for him.
 
DavieCramb01 said:
So it has lost the shine? Is it deep that you notice it with running your finger over it?

A few years ago my mate had a problem similar and we used cutting paste from Halfrauds, tiny bit water and tiny bit paste takes it down a wee bit then a damn good t cut and polish, i however aint an expert in this field and can only mention from my own experiences and mistakes but it worked for him.
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It's actually stripped about an inch of lacquer (or whatever you'd call it) off.

I was thinking of getting some very fine wet&dry, a can of halfrauds lacquer and some SFP or something to polish it up, doesn't need to be absolutely perfect.
 
Cuchulain said:
It's actually stripped about an inch of lacquer (or whatever you'd call it) off.

I was thinking of getting some very fine wet&dry, a can of halfrauds lacquer and some SFP or something to polish it up, doesn't need to be absolutely perfect.
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Hmm sounds like that could go one of two was quickly, Very bad or would work. Think I will leave this for a more experienced person to answer.
 
DavieCramb01 said:
Hmm sounds like that could go one of two was quickly, Very bad or would work. Think I will leave this for a more experienced person to answer.
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The other alternative I guess, just to stop more lacquer lifting is just to clean up the ragged edge and overlap some more lacquer over the bare patch and the old lacquer. It won't look brilliant but I guess it'll stop further problems.
 
Are you certain its taken the lacquer? Ie. you can actually feel it lower than the rest of the paint? I recently had a similar problem with dulling from bird crap, but it was most certainly on top of the paint work, and a quick cut back sorted it.
 
MikeHiow said:
Are you certain its taken the lacquer? Ie. you can actually feel it lower than the rest of the paint? I recently had a similar problem with dulling from bird crap, but it was most certainly on top of the paint work, and a quick cut back sorted it.
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Any help?
 
Something along those lines, but smooth off any edges with a bit of wet and dry before applying more lacquer. With some careful use of wet & dry once dry, you may get it looking reasonably normal from a distance, at least.
 
What really rags my ***** was that I was planning to give it a good waxing tomorrow, had this mutated flying rat waited a day or two I could've just wiped it off with no botheration.
 
Im guessing it would have been a pigeon that did that, no other winged rat would eat crap that produces crap liek that
 
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