Bird droppings marks - help!

[mcg123]

Hi to you all - bought a car over weekend (Black ford focus 2005.) Noticed there are marks where the previous owner did not remove bird droppings and the paint has been marked. Is this a simple T-Cut job? Cheers in advance...

[PJ S]

Not T-cut, Autoglym Super Resin Polish would be a better choice if by hand.

[mneame]

menzerna intensive polish on a german applicator pad for working by hand is the best combo out there imo. ag srp doesn't really have enough cut and is full of fillers. t cut is fine for shining up the kitchen bin and that's about it. lol.

depending on how bad they are you may not get them out. bird dropping etchings can be pretty horrendous.

[_Deano]

Just found this thread.
If the poo hasn't been cleaned from the glass for a while, does it turn into a black/dark brown mess that can't be washed off?

If so, then i have this on my headlight!

[pits]

mneame said:

menzerna intensive polish on a german applicator pad for working by hand is the best combo out there imo. ag srp doesn't really have enough cut and is full of fillers. t cut is fine for shining up the kitchen bin and that's about it. lol.

depending on how bad they are you may not get them out. bird dropping etchings can be pretty horrendous.

I disagree, if you know what your doing with T-cut and know how violent it is, you shouldnt have a problem using it.

Whilst I like Menzerna alot, I have used T-cut on my car a few times, as its great for arches, bottoms of the doors on my car, engine bay and door jams, however I am tempted to make a video to show just how violent T-cut is.

I was experimenting with polishes last week on the paints we use in work, which set like concrete, you can key them and they rarely scratch. T-cut on a rotary polisher ripped orange peel of the item and left it smooth, flat and glossy... You might be think well thats brilliant, to get rid of orange peel you need to flat and polish it out with sand paper.

T-cut is like 800 grit sandpaper in liquid form, ever wonder why it smells of brasso? Have a guess at why it is so good at ripping off paint work

[paintman]

Problem with bird droppings is that it can etch into the clearcoat & either stain it or leave pits.
Unless you are very lucky the cure is panel respray.

[7even]

There is a heat cool process that works fairly successfully on newer anti-scratch clearcoats, unfortunately its disasterous in the wrong hands.
If they really annoy you find a local detailer that has experience in paint defects, they will be able to help.

[mneame]

pits said:

mneame said:

menzerna intensive polish on a german applicator pad for working by hand is the best combo out there imo. ag srp doesn't really have enough cut and is full of fillers. t cut is fine for shining up the kitchen bin and that's about it. lol.

depending on how bad they are you may not get them out. bird dropping etchings can be pretty horrendous.

I disagree, if you know what your doing with T-cut and know how violent it is, you shouldnt have a problem using it.

Whilst I like Menzerna alot, I have used T-cut on my car a few times, as its great for arches, bottoms of the doors on my car, engine bay and door jams, however I am tempted to make a video to show just how violent T-cut is.

I was experimenting with polishes last week on the paints we use in work, which set like concrete, you can key them and they rarely scratch. T-cut on a rotary polisher ripped orange peel of the item and left it smooth, flat and glossy... You might be think well thats brilliant, to get rid of orange peel you need to flat and polish it out with sand paper.

T-cut is like 800 grit sandpaper in liquid form, ever wonder why it smells of brasso? Have a guess at why it is so good at ripping off paint work

I was getting at it being dangerous to use if you don't know what you're doing (which as you mention above it is) i was getting at it being a very out of date not much cop product in comparison to other heavy cut abbraisives.

[Deva Link]

mcg123 said:

Hi to you all - bought a car over weekend (Black ford focus 2005.) Noticed there are marks where the previous owner did not remove bird droppings and the paint has been marked. Is this a simple T-Cut job? Cheers in advance...

Daughter has a metallic black SEAT Ibiza and that had a huge splodge across the bonnet which left a faded area. T-Cut didn't seem to make an impassion, but Autoglym Paint Renovator got rid of it easily.

I'm bemused by the comments about how aggressive T-Cut is - I never thought that. In comparison the AutoGlym stuff is positively terrifying.