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Bird crap & paintwork

Hi all,
Alberto Schileo wrote:-
>two pigeons had mistaken my hood for their
>toilet!  So I immediately ran to the car wash, and gave the car a nice
>thorough washing.  The bird crap could have been on the hood for a 
>maximum of 1
>and a half hours, assuming it happened right when I walked away from the 
>car.
>Well: imagine my surprise to notice that even though the clearcoat on 
>the hood
>was perfectly smooth to the touch, if you looked at it with the light 
>shining
>on it you could perfectly well see the blueprint of the two 
>bird-craps!!! 

Exactly the same thing happened to me (I'm in Ireland) but I couldn't be 
sure that the culprits were pigeons! I tried polishing the marks off with 
colour restorer (yes, I know that I was only polishing the clear coat), 
but to no avail. I found that repeated applications of wax polish helped, 
but no doubt only temporarily. Anyone out there have a cure short of of a 
respray? Have to go & buy a 12-bore to prevent further problems!
Stewart Johnston 
- -- 
"When I die, I want to die quietly in my sleep like my grandfather did,
 not screaming in terror like his passengers" - Anon.