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thefullcollapse

thefullcollapse

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That bonnet looks very scratched :eek:

My suggestion.. try a claybar on it followed by a hard polish / wax... Bird poo destroys paint work, so it may never come out...
 
The_Dark_Side said:
isn't birdy doo-doo acidic?
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The white stuff in bird droppings is actually uric acid. I think the little gits must deliberately eat sharp stones cos it scratches like mad if you try to wipe it off..

OP, that looks like its gone through the top clear coat lacquer. A paint shop can easily fix it without having to color match a respray. I've often had whole bonnets flattened back and re-lacquered to get rid of those marks.
 
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And my family call me mad when I rush out to wipe off bird poo as soon as I spot one :p
 
fornowagain said:
The white stuff in bird droppings is actually uric acid. I think the little gits must deliberately eat sharp stones cos it scratches like mad if you try to wipe it off..

OP, that looks like its gone through the top clear coat lacquer. A paint shop can easily fix it without having to color match a respray. I've often had whole bonnets flattened back and re-lacquered to get rid of those marks.
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before i take it to a paint shop, you got any idea how much they will charge, roughly?

also, will body shops do it, i get a discount at a local one
 
I think they aim for cars on purpose to be honest!

A few weeks back i was washing my car , was just leathering the side down and SPLAT, 4" long by about 1" wide "birdy doo-doo" right up the bonnet :mad:

Hope there was no-one watching as i woulda looked a bit crazy looking up into the sky & shouting "I'm gonna go and buy a ******* gun!" :p

Then there was one last summer that missed my open sunroof by about 3 inches whilst i was doing 60, 6 inches to the right and that woulda gone in my hair and a fair bit quite probably on the rear seats.
 
thefullcollapse said:
before i take it to a paint shop, you got any idea how much they will charge, roughly?

also, will body shops do it, i get a discount at a local one
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Get a good one, less than £100 a panel I would say. Just a flatten and lacquer, maybe £80? Depends on how deep/many the stone chips are I guess.
 
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compound. clay bar wont do much to that.

i had i seagul crap on my my bonnet, it was only on the paint for a few hours and it had to be compounded to get the marks out, even now you can still se some off it :(
 
Remember my monster bird poo thread the other day? that poo was on for maybe 2 hours before I could clean it off and it left no marks though - was solid and crumbly when I cleaned it off - I guess it depends on the weight of the paint used by each manufacturer on how well it gets treated by birdy poop!
 
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