Bird Bomb Etching Paint

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dmarcus48

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I recently bought my daughter a new (used) car. Its a red Honda Civic. The paint is in pretty good condition except for what looks like a birdsh*t stain in a couple of areas. I think the previous owner let the bird dropping sitting on the paint and once in awhile took the car to a carwash. I have a PC, I've tried VMW, Meg's 3 & 9, stratchX, men deep paint cleaner with no luck. What can I use to get these stains off?



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I don't know how strong the Deep Cleaner is, but I think that generally bird poop etching is supposed to be treated like oxidation. If they're just small, isolated spots, you don't need to use the PC, just do it by hand with a terry towel, which with pressure probably has more bite. Try the Scratch-X again and then progressively stronger polishes, but sometimes the damage goes all the way through and you're stuck (crosses fingers). Good luck.
 
Brian,



Thanks for the reply, yeah I've tried doing it with pretty good pressure and the stain fades, but is still there. I think that I need something more agressive..
 
dmarcus48- Be careful when trying a more aggressive product. As 4DSC said, sometimes you're stuck. Often, the only way to REALLY fix serious birdbomb etching is with a paintgun, which is also the only way to fix overly enthusiastic polishing ;)
 
I just fixed bird bomb etching a few hours ago. I had only one spot but it was very deep, too bad I didn't see this post, I would have taken some pics.

This is what I did:

Damage was pretty severe and I had to level the paint by wetsanding with 2000 grit paper. On a small spot like that I used pencil eraser as my sanding block.

A little 3M rubbing compound and SMR and it looks flawless, all done by hand.
 
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