Bird etching on new white Audi paint!!

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Krautfed 03

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My wife couldn't find a place to park at work, so instead of walking a little, she decided to park under a tree at work. Birds used the roof of our Audi as target practice!! :angry I washed it as soon as she got home, but had two etched spots about the size of a quarter on the roof. These are the spots you can only see under artificial light, but using Megs #2 with the PC on 6 made absolutely no impact on them. I also tried 3M Machine Polish, and this had no effect on them. I worked each polish slowly, breaking each down, and repeating several times. This did not phase them. You cannot feel the etching, so I would like to avoid wetsanding. Any product suggestions with proven success stories on hard Audi paint?? Thanks for the help.
 
Krautfed 03 said:
My wife couldn't find a place to park at work, so instead of walking a little, she decided to park under a tree at work. Birds used the roof of our Audi as target practice!! :angry I washed it as soon as she got home, but had two etched spots about the size of a quarter on the roof. These are the spots you can only see under artificial light, but using Megs #2 with the PC on 6 made absolutely no impact on them. I also tried 3M Machine Polish, and this had no effect on them. I worked each polish slowly, breaking each down, and repeating several times. This did not phase them. You cannot feel the etching, so I would like to avoid wetsanding. Any product suggestions with proven success stories on hard Audi paint?? Thanks for the help.
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Try the #2 again with a 4" pad. If that doesn't get it you'll need a rotary and in that case I'd think long and hard about taking off that much clear. Sometimes etching like that would require pretty drastic measures. ValueGuard's Paint Correction Creme (from AutoInt) is made for stuff like this (rotary only) and it thins the paint so much you have to watch what you do for the rest of the vehicle's life. I'd rather have thick but imperfect clear myself.
 
Krautfed 03 said:
My wife couldn't find a place to park at work, so instead of walking a little, she decided to park under a tree at work. Birds used the roof of our Audi as target practice!! :angry I washed it as soon as she got home, but had two etched spots about the size of a quarter on the roof. These are the spots you can only see under artificial light, but using Megs #2 with the PC on 6 made absolutely no impact on them. I also tried 3M Machine Polish, and this had no effect on them. I worked each polish slowly, breaking each down, and repeating several times. This did not phase them. You cannot feel the etching, so I would like to avoid wetsanding. Any product suggestions with proven success stories on hard Audi paint?? Thanks for the help.
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I had something similar happen to my wife's Dolphin Gray S4. She came home with some odd brown bird crap splattered on the front of the hood. After I washed it off, there was a mark etched in the paint, but it felt smooth.



I did 4 applications of Meg's #6 cleaner wax over 2 days before I couldn't see it any longer. I don't have a rotary, so had to use some heavy elbow grease.



There are lots of other suggestion on this board if you do a search on bird droppings. Someone mentioned that even if you don't use a product, it seems to fade over time.
 
the other pc said:
How did you do that?





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I have no idea, I was trying to remove a few straight line scratches in the paint and suddenly I'm noticing more and more scratches, some pretty damned bad ones.

I said to myself there is no way MG #2 is doing that. I picked a spot above the rear door and lightly rubbed some MG there and SURE ENOUGH it was scratching. I had to buff with ZPC Fusion and 3M Swirl Remover for hours before I removed them.



Never had a Meguiars issue like that before.
 
Perhaps it was the older, rotary-only version of #2. I have a bottle of that (a few years old) that's virtually liquid sandpaper; I don't even like using it by rotary (and I used #2 by hand on single stage back in the day).



Gotta make sure the #2 is the newer hand/PC/rotary version.
 
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