Bird sh*t

[mcmaddy]

The bird poo isn't actually touching the paint or even the lacquer. People can argue all they want I'm just saying that in my experience I haven't had any crazing or dull paintwork from bird mess.

[Brenbo]

Living in Cornwall I have had plenty of sea gull (aka beach chicken) poo on my car.  By the size of the offending poo you would be forgiven for think some of the guls were ostriches or prehistroric teradactyls.  However I have had many occasions where ther has been massive gul splats on my car baking in very hot sunshine for a long period of time as we enjoy the beach.  I have to say I have not experienced any etching yet to my knowledge. My current and 2x previous car were white, and the cars before that were black.  But I cannot remember anytime where I have found a etch mark from gul or other bird poo.  However what I did find one was a bad scour mark which went right through the paint from bones in gul poo as I tried to remove it from the roof of my old Type-R many years ago.  I would say if bird does etch paint. Just a musing thought, maybe it is a locale related affair dependent on the diet of the birds in the area? 

[dubber36]

I live 7 miles from the coast and we get lots of seagulls and if one of them targets the car, and on a sunny day, it etches in minutes!

Have you considered getting some clear sides for your forensic tent, fashioning some sort of frame to attach it to the car and driving round in that? A bit like Clarksons mobile hide when TG did the disability scooter thing.

There are so many advantages to doing this. One being avoiding car park dents, but that's another thread.

[Booth11]

I live 7 miles from the coast and we get lots of seagulls and if one of them targets the car, and on a sunny day, it etches in minutes!

Have you considered getting some clear sides for your forensic tent, fashioning some sort of frame to attach it to the car and driving round in that? A bit like Clarksons mobile hide when TG did the disability scooter thing.

There are so many advantages to doing this. One being avoiding car park dents, but that's another thread.

Or I could just get PPF and not look a complete prat. 

Or I could just DA the etching out every now and then and have a proper car and not a plastic coated one.  Oh I already do that. 

[dubber36]

OK. So maybe driving around with it on is a step too far, but when parked...

[Booth11]

OK. So maybe driving around with it on is a step too far, but when parked...

.....on my driveway, when carry out a full detail, yes.  Any other car park....no...except....maybe when parking at Gatwick at holiday time, hmm.