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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: luke0380 on 08 May 2009, 07:20
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I had my car cleaned yesterday
Just been outside to put the bins out and have bird sh!t all down the front of the bonnet !!
What is the best way of cleaning this off without getting the whole car cleaned again !
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I use luke warm water form the kettle, this just soften's the bird poo, and stop's it from scratching the paintwork. I then use meg's detailer to clean up the paintwork. Comes out brilliant. steve30
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I use a pellet gun, on the birds that is!
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Ahhhhhhh get it off straight away! That stuff is lethal! :cry: :cry:
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I use a sodden kitchen tissue and leave it on the poo for a few minutes. The poo then just easily comes off.
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Spit on the poo. The enzymes in your saliva eat the poo away.
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Spit on the poo. The enzymes in your saliva eat the poo away.
a tried and tested method by me, i leave a mf cloth in my boot and use the spit method, loadsa trees on my street and usually get pood on every morning! :laugh:
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a bit of water and a cloth? Seriously I just use some tap water and Meguiars Ultimate Quick detailer. Microfibre cloth too. I wouldn't use a kitchen towel as they are wood fibre and may scratch the paint.
http://meguiarsdirect.com/detail/MEG+G14422
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Just out of interest, has anybody used the Autoglym Bird Dropping Wipes?
Saw them the other day but £4.99 for 10 wipes, thought that the price was a bit steep!!
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Are you guys serious??? you actually clean bird poo from your car??
Have one the size of a small bird on the roof at the moment... i thought this was a joke thread :embarassed:
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Are you guys serious??? you actually clean bird poo from your car??
Have one the size of a small bird on the roof at the moment... i thought this was a joke thread :embarassed:
Ditch the girlfriend........... :grin: :grin: :grin:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yrvpPBcWg4o/SQhQpe2n7uI/AAAAAAAAAM0/hEsB0Nub2iU/s320/bird-sh!t.jpg
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Bird poo damages your paintwork - at a very rapid rate. It'll start to make that spot of the paint look duller, quicker then you think!
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Bird poo damages your paintwork - at a very rapid rate. It'll start to make that spot of the paint look duller, quicker then you think!
hmm didnt know that... glad my car is black :grin:
Oh well atleast its started raining :grin: :grin:
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I hate the rain - its so dirty. Leaves the car with dirty watermarks over it which I have to dust off all the time!
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a bit of water and a cloth? Seriously I just use some tap water and Meguiars Ultimate Quick detailer. Microfibre cloth too. I wouldn't use a kitchen towel as they are wood fibre and may scratch the paint.
http://meguiarsdirect.com/detail/MEG+G14422
With larrrndon town water, jeez man your brave!! :grin:
edit: read it as last touch for some reason :lipsrsealed:
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the problem i have with cleaning the poo with the cloth is that the poo sticks to the cloth and it's a real pain cleaning the cloth. So the real question is how do you clean the poo off your microfibre cloth? I have this manky cloth that is just for bird poo and as you can imagine it is getting a bit rank!
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This is why I use bird poo disposable wipes. Clean the stuff off asap and then throw away. Can be cleaned properly later with QD and MF cloth when you have the chance.
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Bird poo damages your paintwork - at a very rapid rate. It'll start to make that spot of the paint look duller, quicker then you think!
hmm didnt know that... glad my car is black :grin:
Oh well atleast its started raining :grin: :grin:
Worst colour to get sh@t on.
Horribly corrosive - need to get it off the paint straight away or it WILL eat into the clearcoat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mucho wax helps :wink:
Cass
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Completely agree with Cass - had a black car before and it really is the worst colour to get bombed on.
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the problem i have with cleaning the poo with the cloth is that the poo sticks to the cloth and it's a real pain cleaning the cloth. So the real question is how do you clean the poo off your microfibre cloth? I have this manky cloth that is just for bird poo and as you can imagine it is getting a bit rank!
I just by the tesco ones, £1.50 each, keep one in the boot til its manky then ditch it!
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I'm sure birds see black and reflexively sh!te. They probably think it's a body of water or something. Wonder how much blue and green cars get shat on.
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the problem i have with cleaning the poo with the cloth is that the poo sticks to the cloth and it's a real pain cleaning the cloth. So the real question is how do you clean the poo off your microfibre cloth? I have this manky cloth that is just for bird poo and as you can imagine it is getting a bit rank!
£1.50 each?? Bloody hell!!
Go to Wilkinsons - Yellow Microfibre cloth, 10p each!!
I just by the tesco ones, £1.50 each, keep one in the boot til its manky then ditch it!
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Wilkinsons 10p microfibre cloth! blimey gonna go stock up.
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Wilkinsons 10p microfibre cloth! blimey gonna go stock up.
me too! Bargain! I thought £1.50 was cheap! You sure you're not confusing them with yellow dusters ifti? :tongue: lol
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Make sure you do the CD test first :) then report back lol I'm on Costco's finest for my disposable ones.
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yeah, I've been buying the huge pack form costco too. great stuff.
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Whats the CD test?
I'll try pop into Wilko's this week and take a pic of what they are - pretty sure they were MF cloths, but I saw it in passing............and they were yellow...........hmm.............
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I assume that you rub a CD with the cloth and if it scratches it then it's not going to be very good on your paint. MF cloths, I assume, don't scratch CDs.
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I'm sure birds see black and reflexively sh!te. They probably think it's a body of water or something. Wonder how much blue and green cars get shat on.
Unless birds are toilet trained i dont think they wait to be over water to lay one down. I have a Black GTI and have to say the paint is very weak against bird sh!te, i check mine every night as i pass it on the drive, I had a dird hit it the other day with what can only be described as Weapons grade turd and it took 30 mins of soaking to get the bugger off, nasty stuff if you leave it,
R
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Unless birds are toilet trained i dont think they wait to be over water to lay one down.
Birds aren't toilet trained but they do have innate reflexes. IIRC, birds tend to excrete over bodies of water. Flying high up in the sky, a dark coloured vehicle won't look much different to a pond, say. It's supposed to be a reflex type of response. See a black thing and $hit yerself!