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Repairing Automotive Paint Damage Caused by Bird Poop in 5 Minutes

Posted by Bapak on Wednesday, November 30, 2011


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Every time you take your car from the garage is exposed to potential dangers of paint damage. Some of the most common issues of acid rain, insects, battery acid and road stones. There is another danger that is particularly harmful and messy, and it was bird poop.

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bird poop is essentially acid. It may have pH values ​​between 3.5 and 4.5. This means you will burn sensitive areas, unless it is removed relatively quickly. For auto paint, especially clear coat finishes, bird droppings burn the surface, causing a permanently etched mark.

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bird poop is essentially acid. It may have pH values ​​between 3.5 and 4.5. This means you will burn sensitive areas, unless it is removed relatively quickly. For auto paint, especially clear coat finishes, bird droppings burn the surface, causing a permanently etched mark.

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This is not at all uncommon for a big fall that causes damage to the paint that is 2 mils deep, or more. To understand what this means for your car's clear coat, a good laser printer paper is about 2 mils thick. More importantly, the quality clear coat finish is typically 4-6 m. This means that the heavy-duty bird bomb would not leave a lot of clear coat on the area to be popraviti.Dobra news is that the color etching from hard water spots and bird droppings can be a simple repair make at home. Most repairs such as this take less than 5 minutes.

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Fixing bird poop color defects

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The only way to repair the damage caused by bird color is polish the affected area with a fine cut rubbing spoj.Osnovni procedure is to use a combination of cut away the damage and re-polish the surface so it looks new again. This is exactly the step taken by professionals and factories when they remove the disadvantages of painting. Your only concern is over-polishing. Be careful not to over do it and polish it all the way through the surface layer.

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best car polish to use is one that is formulated to remove paint scratches or restore oxidized boja.Proizvod which I highly recommend Meguiar's the ultimate combination. It is available in most auto parts stores, and it works great by hand or electric car polish.

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If the damage covers an area larger than about 1 square inch, polishing compound alone could not do the trick. For larger areas of damage that can make repairs faster and easier to first remove the damaged paint with 2000 or 3000 grit wet sandpaper, and then re-polish the area with the compound. This May sound hard, but it is not. This is certainly the procedure used for paint and body shop professionals.

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Preventing bird damage

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