If your in a jam and don't have these products but have a couple handi-wipes (little individual pre packaged wet wipes given by restaurants) handy, squeeze a bit of liquid out of the wipe onto the bird poop spot then wipe it away with the towelette. I've done this many times, works like a charm.
These are pro solutions and good ones at that...... however it was a long weekend, a massive amount of Bird crap landed on my car and I did not want to let it sit for days or a week feeling it may do further damage. I had a white car. (Not sure what the outcome would be for a dark paint car?). The chunky part of the poop I got off. Not issue there. What was left was light green stains literally that looking like ink or something. I tried soap and water and a sponge. No change. I tried Turtle wax and some buffing. Did not help at all. I tried Baking soda and water. Did not do anything. I tried Baking soda and vinegar. Nothing. I tried Goo B Gone. No change... no effect. NOTE I chose a small bird poo stain for all these down near the side front fender in the most inconspicuous spot to test all these. In case any of them left some damage or abrasive marks in the paint. I recommend the same. If the situation allows for that. Finally what worked? A mixture paste of Oxy Clean Powder mixed plain hot water. Not so hot that it burns your fingers. I mixed it to a wet version of a paste. I tried applying and rubbing the stains using make Up Remover pads (those white round ones).... I tried a cloth.... it seemed the best way to do it was using my plain old fingers. I would apply a dollop and simply firm but a gentle firm.... rub it with my thumb or fingertips around and over each poo splatter. The more you kept rubbing the fainter and fainter the stain got. It does take some elbow grease and time. It took me around 45 to 55 minutes to do around 35 - 40 splatters ranging from the size of a dime to the size of a pea. But they all came out. Every now and then I would mist the whole area with water. You do not want the paste dry or chunky.... nor too thin.... a little wetter than toothpaste consistency. After I rinsed and rubbed everything with a soft towel and you could see some of the areas where I rubbed with the oxyclean but I am sure a going over with a good car wax with hint of rubbing compound would even out the small few areas I could see a bit of a difference in shine. Would I recommend this for anyone with a prestige car or Hot rod or show car? maybe not? But your everyday homeowner with a run of the mill regular car, SUV or whatever should find this to do the job. Again it is not the work of a pro like this author here but it worked enough for my liking on our white Honda Accord. Hope this helps. Note get bird poop off a car as fast as possible. Every day or hour your leave it lets the high acid content in Birds poop permeate the clear coat and even into the paint if left long enough. Cheers
Anyone with common sense will wash the microfiber towel by hand at the sink. To remove as much bird dropping much as you can before washing them in the dryer. Cmon man
I would not want to put any alcohol based cleaner on the paint or anything acidic for that matter, but I just discovered something in a pinch. Lately for the past few days in Chicago it’s been ridiculously hot mid 90s and mid 80s or 90s humidity, with ridiculous rain and thunderstorms during the night, which led me to realize that my roof does leak a little bit, even though it wasn’t happening for the first five years of owning this car the last year or so it has been leaking sometimes when it’s raining hard or just a little bit it’s really confusing and sometimes it doesn’t leak at all even when it’s raining hard, I thought it could be the roof, the sunroof, maybe a jar or slightly off kilter. But regardless, that’s another story. So this morning I woke up and the hood of my car was literally attacked by bird poop. I’ve never seen more bird poop in my life on one spot of my hood. Dozens of huge white spots that were disgusting so I had nothing, no car wax, no car cleaner to remove it. So I use laundry detergent. Why? Because it’s petroleum-based, it seems that pretty much anything petroleum-based, mainly liquid soaps, and so many other things that we have in our household have petroleum, and it literally took off those swirls of damage in the paint, it took a little bit of work but a little bit of laundry soap and water and a microfiber towel and those little swirls of bird poop Damage started to come clean. So just FYI if you’re in a pinch, give it a try it just might save your paint from an attack of bird shit.
While looking at this product of Torque Detail , it shows that comments are turned off in all the videos , when I see that it sends the message the channel does not want feedback and probably had a bunch of bad feedback which in return causes me to rethink about spending money on it , other products have their comments on so we can see what people that use the products have to say , not just people that are paid endorsers or friends and family ,
I once let bird poop from a seagull stay to long on my car and then tried to wipe it straight off the paint (yes i know this is really stupid thing to do but this was before i got in to detailing and was actually one of the reasons why i got in to detailing), let's just say there is a reason why i also refer to bird poo as paintstripper.
I use recently boiled water (1-2 mins cooled). Melts it nicely then I use kitchen roll to wipe it off :) don’t need pointlessly expensive products or even any effort lol
Any time spent watching this video is time wasted that you will never get back and you will still not know a good method or product to use to remove bird boop.
