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Post by Rambler on Apr 3, 2021 15:29:27 GMT
When I try to clean them off , my paint comes off too.😕 Tried polishing them out , no good , spray with high pressure water and gently with paint brush... No good. Only noticed them today , cleaned it last week. Each spot is about 6 to 8 mm.  |
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Post by Rambler on Apr 3, 2021 15:44:45 GMT
And the lower bit is so smooth , you can't feel it.
Reminds me of BlackBerry juice.
I can scrape it off with my finger nail... gently !
But not the bottom bit...
Whatever it is , it's raised or lifted the paint - very cleanly too as I'm down to primer.
This could be a body shop thing , as it's too much for touch up.
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Post by philip42h on Apr 3, 2021 16:35:53 GMT
Not nice at all ... where is it exactly?
It looks [to me] like you've got splashes of something that reacts with the paint ...
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Post by Rambler on Apr 3, 2021 16:53:42 GMT
Not nice at all ... where is it exactly? It looks [to me] like you've got splashes of something that reacts with the paint ... Exactly where the yellow circle is , they weren't there yesterday.  |
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Post by firemac on Apr 3, 2021 18:20:19 GMT
Those look nasty, Jamie.  |
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Post by Rambler on Apr 3, 2021 18:35:54 GMT
Those look nasty, Jamie.  Yes I agree , it doesn't remind me of bird droppings - I've never seen it like this. It's like black berry stains , when you pick them and the little globules squash. I've now scraped the worse ones off and touched them up with Toyota nebula blue. It dries perfect match. But , it's just too horrible to leave like it. An old school friend owns a local body shop , I'm getting a quote. |
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Post by charliefarlie on Apr 3, 2021 18:38:44 GMT
Identifying that stuff is the key...... Not nice and would be disastrous on a hard to match colour.
Jamie can you think where it may have been picked up ? Have you tried something like thinners or even a bit of petrol on a cloth to remove it ?
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Post by Rambler on Apr 3, 2021 19:35:57 GMT
Identifying that stuff is the key...... Not nice and would be disastrous on a hard to match colour. Jamie can you think where it may have been picked up ? Have you tried something like thinners or even a bit of petrol on a cloth to remove it ? When I was , very gently scraping with my finger nail it came off in tiny flakes ( along with the paint ) and under my nails...which effectively was a blue stain like BlackBerryS Give you. It wasn't there yesterday evening , as I sprayed off white bird muck on the lower nearside front wing. But that was a vertical drop , and it simply sprayed off with my pump action garden spray bottle. Which contains rainwater. Car was in the drive then facing outward, I moved to to front lawn this morning. No one has been near it. I'll try white spirit on the lower stain tomorrow. I'm very surprised on how easily the paint has been affected.... tbh... really fed up ; actually that doesn't come close. Even at work , my car is parked well out of everyones way. |
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Post by davrav on Apr 3, 2021 20:09:18 GMT
Any neighbours cars been affected?
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Post by Rambler on Apr 3, 2021 20:53:09 GMT
Any neighbours cars been affected? Not that im aware of , they park their car next to mine. But , the phone line crosses over both cars. So... the white bit I washed off could be part of it all. A reckon a bird has eaten something bad and it's ended up on my car. You can see clearer here the deep multilayer hole on the right !! You can also see on the left the sagging of its contents...  |
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Post by charliefarlie on Apr 4, 2021 9:48:49 GMT
Any neighbours cars been affected? Not that im aware of , they park their car next to mine. But , the phone line crosses over both cars. So... the white bit I washed off could be part of it all. A reckon a bird has eaten something bad and it's ended up on my car. You can see clearer here the deep multilayer hole on the right !! You can also see on the left the sagging of its contents... You never mentioned the white bit..... Bird poo can damage paint especially if they have been on the berries but I’ve never seen damage like that. It usually shrinks and car very slightly pull paint and distort it leaving what usually looks like a dull spot. We wax our cars to help prevent that but if it’s left on the surface too long it can cause very slight marks. If I see bird poo on a car I wash it off immediately. That doesent look like bird poo to me... |
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Post by philip42h on Apr 4, 2021 11:55:04 GMT
It looks like a solvent or even paint stripper ...
From the 'splash' pattern I'd guess that it hit the car while you were driving (forward) - is that possible?
And I am assuming that the blue colour is leached out of the car's paintwork rather than the colour of the substance itself.
You don't have headlight washers on the car do you? Otherwise I might worry about a contaminant in the screen wash ...
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Post by Rambler on Apr 4, 2021 18:50:07 GMT
The other white bit was 12" lower and washed off very easily In a second. I've touched them up now , it's not great but it looks better. I'm just adding layers of touch up every few hours to try to build it up. But , I can't shift the lower stain - tried white spirit. And it's totally smooth to the paint. There also two more tiny dots to the right of these , again I can't shift them.  |
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Post by Rambler on Apr 4, 2021 19:01:09 GMT
It looks like a solvent or even paint stripper ... From the 'splash' pattern I'd guess that it hit the car while you were driving (forward) - is that possible? And I am assuming that the blue colour is leached out of the car's paintwork rather than the colour of the substance itself. You don't have headlight washers on the car do you? Otherwise I might worry about a contaminant in the screen wash ... Paint stripper or solvent was my thoughts too , but how it randomly hit my car ?? Don't have headlight washers. My other thought is vandalism, people know I like my car and I'm always cleaning it. But , I can't think of anyone who would do this. I even opened to bonnet to see if there are any insect leftovers of an impact.... nothing. |
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Post by clarki on Apr 4, 2021 20:11:57 GMT
Weird, never seen anything like that before.
Will you be able to get away with just getting the wing resprayed?
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