Okay so I'm driving down the road out in the middle of nowhere basically. Nothing by me, country road, no traffic. All of a sudden SPLAT there is some red stuff on my windshield which I figure is the remains of some type of bug. Well I turn on the wipers and squirt washer fluid on the window and get that off. When I got home, I didn't notice any on the top of my car (it splattered close to the top of the windshield), but I missed a small spot on the hood. I washed the car the next day and found that little spot there. Whatever this was had eaten through the wax that I had on there and started chewing away at the paint. I was ****ed. It's not too big of a spot but it's rough there and if you look close you can see where it started eating away at the paint a bit, a few cracks here and there.

Anyway...is there something that I can do to help get rid of it without repainting the whole hood heh. Probably not but I thought I would ask. Already put some cleaner wax/polish on it to get rid of any residue.

 

clay-bar the sucker. That would take away all the residue... then probably polish/wax to try to hide the aftermath of it on the paint.

 

could that weird stuff have been bird poop? i've heard it can eat away at paint bigtime. goodluck with that.

 

Never seen red bird poop lol. perhaps sap? dunno...

all i know is brake fluid eats paint real quick...

 

This time of year all the bird poop in Seattle is either Red or Purple

<Raspberry and Blackberry season>



IanS

 

wow haha didn't know that. here in cali, it's always white/brown. nasty stuff

 

Yeah, we get that from the Seagulls.

But every other bird (sparrows, robins, crows, seems to be purple/red.)

Little known fact: Seattle has more crows than any other city in the world, and actually has more crows than people.

IanS

 

welcome to nissan paint

 

You should come up to Vancouver and do a count, Ian! See which city has the most!

 

Hey, I saw it on TV, so it must be true.



IanS