Some birds decided to crap out my hood and now i have 2 stains that i cant buff off..

Anyone knows how can i make them disappear? its really ____ing me off everytime i see them.. I have used Meguiars NXT but that didnt work..it just hides them a lil for about 2 days and then they appear again.. Im worried that its gonna mess up my paint.

Help!!!

 

detailing clay.....or goo gone.... or bug and tar remover....

 

you need to use the right products...NXT is not gonna cut the paint.
i would ask a body shop if they would polish it out for you. if you try you could burn through the paint and really get mad.

 

^^ true that, NXT is a wax product... you need paint cleaner or paint polish... meguiars makes both in a 3 step system (the 3rd step being wax)

 

try some baking soda and water. have to remeber that the poo is an acid. yes it will eat your paint. baking soda and water will netrualize it. then try using the 3 step process that should work.

 

Meguiar's ScratchX should do the trick.

The acidity of the bird droppings basically etched itself into your clearcoat. That's why it's so important to remove it quickly.

Anyway, try some of that ScratchX, it may take two applications to get it out, but it should go away. Follow the directions on the bottle.

 

Actually, the second step is a polish, but it is not the sort of polish that is needed for this sort of job. It is actually more of a glaze, used for improving the looks. It contains NO abrasives and will not remove swirls, scratches, or imperfections.

 

^^^ lets see, paint cleaner(step1), paint polish(step 2), wax(step3).... yeah, I knew that.... funny how my wash/dry/clay/3step has taken out plenty of swirls for me before, bird poo too....

 

photokyle is right.... the meguiar's three step system does not contain a cleaner, polish, and a wax. instead it is comprised of a cleaner, a glaze, and a wax. the 2nd step cannot be classified as a polish. It contains no abrasives in it. Abrasives are needed to burnish the clear coat down to remove swirling. All the 2nd step does is lay down a thin layer of oils that will fill in the swirls and thus hide them. any swirls that may seem to be removed after doing the three step system are still there... they've jsut been filled in by the second step product and they will be back once the wax and the glaze wear off.

 

well as long as I don't see the swirl marks, then es todos bien....

 

generally swirl marks can be removed with a heavy wax

 

No it cannot. Swirls can be hidden with a wax, but they will reappear after the wax washes away after a couple washes.

In order to remove swirls you literally need to cut away at the paint with an abrasive polish. Wax does not contain abrasives.

 

actually a wax will work....it all depends on how severe. If very severe then no a wax will not work

 

No offense, but you are very misinformed. Swirls are light scratches in the clear coat of your paint. In order to remove swirls, you must actually remove paint. It must be leveled down so that all the high points on the paint are gone, and the swirls are no longer there. In order to do level the paint this way, you need a polish or compound with abrasives in it. You also need to work in the polish hard enough to create heat so that the compunds can do their work (this is why a buffer is necessary). Waxes do not contain any abrasives, nor should you be working it in hard enough to create the heat necessary to make the abrasives in a polish work. You should be gently massaging the wax in.

So no, wax will not remove swirls.

 

i agree with all of that except the heat part. Heat isn't necessary for abrasives to cut. Example being a random orbital like the pc7424 (and its many variants). the RO design creates little to no heat and yet polishes are still able to cut in and remove paint. heat only serves to make abrasives cut faster (just look at the speed difference between orbitals and rotaries).

 

Actually, you're right. Heat is not necessar.