Tips to remove poop stains
 

Any recommendations on how can I get rid of this bird poops stains, I’ve used meguiars ultimate compound by hand but it did nothing, I’m guessing I have to use a polish machine, has any one of you had to deal with this in the past?. I’ll attach some pictures, also the paint feels oxidize to hand touch.

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How long has the poop been on there? It should come off with some rubbing compound but if it was on long enough to affect the integrity of the clear coat you may need a rotary.

Two things.
Get it off as quickly as possible.
Get your next car ceramic coated.

I know too late.

If it has been on there very long it will etch the clearcoat and possibly stain the surface.
If you are able to buff it out, try one of the spray graphene or ceramic sprays. It may help with future droppings. Waxes will not stop bird poop from getting to the paint.

They stayed on the car for months


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That's etched the paint. Only way to "remove" it is paint correction, and even then, it might be too late if it has eaten away through the clear coat.

with no teeth, a birds poop is highly acidic.

Please add the word 'bird' into the title. I thought a baby's diaper had exploded inside your car.
That being said, you may not have gone deep enough with the Meguiar's Ultimate Compound - try it on one spot and try buffing it more.

At this point your best bet is to do a paint correction. After that, ceramic coat it.

If you can get your hands on a DA or Rotary polisher you can clean that up with the compound you have. I'd stick with foam pads, like an orange or yellow cut.
Finish with a green pad and a polish.
You'd need to use a decent amount of pressure by hand to build up heat needed to correct that. Then you'll need a polish to correct the hazing.

I managed to correct light etching by hand that happened on my deck lid. Poop was only there a day, two tops and it left a hollowgrame effect you could see in the right lighting.


Ceramic coating can help as It'll etch the coating if left on which is probably more desirable than the clear it self. You'd need to repolish the panel and recoat in that situation.

I was afraid it was humfrs'!

Bird poop is highly acidic. You have to get it off your car asap! You don't have any clear coat left in those spots to save and any polishing you do will probably only spread clear coat failure. You will have to do send it to a paint shop to try to do a spot repair and re-clear coat it. But most shops will probably want to do the whole panel.
Other option would be to put stickers over the spot.

I’ve got a first sized splat that looks exactly like birdpoo etching that has seemingly appeared over night. It’s right above where I shut my driver door so I would have noticed it immediately like I did this morning if it had been there before. Never had a bird poo on that particular area and my car was garaged all night so not sure what to make of it

I watched a YouTube video of a guy slowly and carefully heating the etched paint with a heat gun. You could also use a hair dryer. Seems to work like a charm.

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It's done. Bird poop ate through the clear, and the clear on this car sucks to start with. No amount of compounding or paint correction will help fix it

Protip: dont leave bird poop on your car for months. Keep a soft microfiber towel in your car and some detailing spray. Soak the poop with the spray, spray the towel with the detailer and try to scoop it off. Parking under trees this is daily upkeep. I've been using ONR as a detailing spray but the meguiars or mothers stuff is fine too.

Can't wait to get a house with an actual garage!

Just keep a bottle of water in the car... Wet a tissue paper, put it on the poop and let it soak for a couple mins and wipe it off

Bird "poop" is a mixture of feces and urine since they don't have separate systems for each. This makes it one of the worst possible things you can get on a car.
As said if it was there long enough to cut through the clear coat there is little to be done. You may be able to minimize the contrast with some buffing but the spots will always be visible.

Damn Bird Turds.

7.5 years and finally your time to shine!

I haven't pooped in my car since I stopped drinking

Finally, fair game. Reminds me of the story.....

A guy is sitting at the bar, pretty hammered, and he pukes on his shirt. "Oh crap, my wife is going to kill me, this is a brand new shirt.". Bartender says, " I know what to do, where is your wallet". Guy takes out his wallet, bartender grabs a $20 and puts it in his shirt pocket. "Tell your wife some drunk guy stumbled into you and puked on your shirt, and gave you $20 to get it cleaned". "Oh, thanks!" The guy says.

Guy goes home and wife is waiting at the door. Guy gives his wife the story, and tells her the $20 is in his shirt pocket. She reaches in to get it. Wife says, " there is $40 here? Guy says, "yea, he also shit in my pants."

If the compound didn't work, you'll have to wetsand it down carefully starting from the least aggressive (3,000*2,500 * 2,000 *1,500 *1,000) grit because you don't want to remove so much clear coat. Hopefully, that will remove the damage if it's not too deep. Watch how it's done on YouTube by AMMO NYC, Pan the Organizer, or Apex Detailing

I mix dishwashing liquid and mixed into water and scrub it into the poop stain and rinse it with water.

The first thing I thought was that this was going to be a tale of the OP's first experience at a HPDE after pushing things too hard...

True.

wash your shorts, dont want to be like an accident scene, skid marks and blood

Experiencing @humfrz backing up a Saturn in a parking garage is pretty poop inducing as well!

The actual post which was struck at high rate of speed in reverse

Welp, yes, I admit that I backed into that post - :sigh:

However, that was a dumb place to put a post and (obviously), I wasn't the first person to run into it - :iono:

Or you had had breakfast there a few times before. The waitress sure seemed to take good care of you.

That looks like my Dad's parking spot a few years ago. He had started driving by touch the last 25 years or so that he drove.

Well that post was a good 60 feet straight behind his car so it wasn't really a case of driving by feel

So.... how to get non-bird poop out of the seat ?


Asking for a friend.

Sushhhhhhhhhh ....... :brokenheart:

Soooooo........I blame those new fangled mirrors which say "objects in the mirror are closer than they appear to be". The damn print is too small and too far away for me to read - plus, sometimes, if I can see it, I read it the other way around.
:mad0259:

Best tip I can give you in the long run is: seal the paintjob.

Does wonders.