Week Old Paint & Bug Droppings = HELP

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NighthawkBlack

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Hi everyone,



I had my black car parked under a nice big tree for the day, in the sun. When I returned, my car was covered in what looked like paint splatters, but it was small bug droppings from the tree above. I'd say it was sitting under the sun with this stuff on it, for around 7-8 hours. Problem is the paint on my hood fresh, only a week old.



I came home and washed the car, the rest of the body seems ok. It was dark out by the time I was done. But the hood, where the paint is fresh with no wax, you can see the stains from the droppings. I washed it again and nothing. I tried a little wax on a spot and it did nothing. Any tips or suggestions on removing this stuff? Keep in mind it's fresh paint.



Thanks!

Tash
 
Fresh paint is fine to polish/clean. You just don't want to have a sealant/wax on the paint until ~90 days.



I would try a paint cleaner. If that don't work you may need to do a light polish. I recommend FPII or a more expensive but nicer version would be 106ff. Both are by Menzerna.



Good Luck!



- Andrew
 
Yeah, try the least abrasive paint cleaner you can get (and get that wax cleaned off of it too). You might try gently claying first.



And I recommend that you don't park fresh repaints under trees ;) Coulda been worse (bird bomb).
 
Thanks all for the replies and messages. I know I won't be parking under any trees AT ALL. So call me nuts, but up until this morning when I left the underground parking garage I could still see the spots. I went to Canadian Tire to check out car products. Went to my parents place so I could wash the car again and try to polish out the spots......................nice and sunny out......... the spots are no where to be found!! I thought maybe because its sunny!???! who knows...........so I didn't do a thing to it. ... came home tonite, checked it under the same light in the underground and it looks fine....



What the heck?? i hope it's gone, disappeared, and I hope I won't have to post about it anytime soon. I still don't get it though. lol. People must think I'm on drugs or seeing things..



Thanks though for the help.



Edit... I tried adding a new post three times but it won't work...... but here is a pic from last night so you don't think I'm crazy, lol. This is what it looked like last nite and this morning when I left home. It's the bigger spots, the smaller ones to the bottom left are just from a bad drying job.

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trees = bad



they have leaves, sticks, sap, bugs, birds, rogue cats, occasional beaver and black bear or koala if you're in Australia.
 
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