A bird pooped on my truck last night so bad it seemed personal. My GF thought it was funny i cleaned it off so fast so now ill show her this video as proof of what can happen. Thanks for all the tips and videos Josh!
Great vid thanks - had the exact same issue and went for the compound/polish combo on a black Tesla Model 3 and it worked perfectly. Did it by hand too which worked just fine!
I sometimes have issues with birds leaving their calling cards but my main problem is trying to keep the neighborhood cats off my cars, always worried about them scratching my paint, great video Josh 👍😁
Great video, Josh! I just had the same thing happen on the hood of my 2021 Mazda6. Sat out in the sun too long, and I didn't catch it in time. I tried Koch Chemie Micro Cut with the corresponding pad, and while it made it better, it didn't eliminate it. Problem is, the paint thickness in that spot is 3.1 😳 Just don't feel comfortable bumping it up to a compound. Oh well, like you said, you have be looking for it to really see it anyway. Sure wish manufacturers weren't making the paint so THIN these days...
Different subject: I just purchased my MJJC Pro V2 cannon from you. Thanks! MJJC no longer includes any extra filters. How often do you swap out filters if you rinse your foam cannon out with water everytime?
Hi, Yeah i actually never have with the ones i use. But, I use only ph neutral soaps with no wax additives. And i use it all the time so nothing has a chance to build up. Honestly, i think if you rinse it out after use you will be fine. The v2 mjjc upgraded a few components over the original so Its made to last
Great video Josh! I live in Minnesota and I swear the birds watch and wait for you to finish a detail. 😡 I have a similar 1” polisher and they are invaluable!
Yeah i work at a auto body repair shop detailing and the local Toyota dealership always brings the new cars with bird poo damage. There's so little clear on new cars these days. I panic inside when they tell us they're bringing one up for me to have a go at. Sometimes we have to paint. I honestly try to save the day but you cant win them all.
@@issakoreanwhy remove some clear coat when heat gun or even auto glym reflow pack can remove etching ALWAYS use the least aggressive method when paint correcting THATS THE FIRST RULE
Yea i know and its unfortunate. It seems be getting less and less. I see a lot of Honda's with clear coat failure. Do you know any of the science behind that?
Real helpful video! Been fighting bird poop and other stains for years! My hood on my 2019 es350 is gonna need some work. Got a whole bunch of spots besides poop dont what is was. I'm gonna try this and see what happens.
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
Before trying this, I'd like to suggest that you apply some WD40 to the area, leave it for a few seconds and then polish with a soft cloth. It worked for me.
I just put a long compression dent in my truck passenger door this morning, It took a massive chunk of paint off as well, Im so mad at myself, you ever done any dent repairs before Josh? I’m curious… great vid man, keep em comin! I got my MJJC and used it twice already and love it! Now I cant use it til I get my door repaired 😞
I'd just hit that with the edge of a wool pad on a rotary and be done in 10 seconds. The mini cordless makes more sense for tighter areas though. Good demonstration.
How does bird poop etch the clear coat? Like don’t we have the technology to create paints and clear coats that can combat bird crap by now?? Yet we can land on the moon and send massive telescopes into space, no problem. Just amazing
@@DeathhAngel1 agreed! It’s been driving me nuts and I want to get back to trying to get these stains out. This car for some reason is prone to birds dumping on it. Moreso than my other cars that sit outside.
I have the same issue. I tried with G9 and Sonax PF using orange Griot's pad.... Im new to polishing with less than 15 hours of polishing. I'm tempted to try again with a clean pad with the Makita 3" polisher to see if I can get a little better improvement. I also have spots that I can't identify. Its a 08 Honda that was neglected and its hard to find information on this situation
Yea Im going to be doing a fill correction on it now anyways and then putting on a true ceramic! But in most cases, just reapplying whatever protection was in that area is all that is needed
Nice videos. Which brand/product name would you use to add extra protection from the get-go as a preventative method that will last atleast a few months of protection? Hybrid ceramic wax will prevent damage from bird poops?
They have been out of stock. The rupes is definitely the most well know for this size polisher. I have about 5 other small polishers coming (including the maxshine) to test out and compare! The build quality of the rupes is fantastic but cost to value... we will see how it compares to the others.
Would recommend checking out Autoglym's heat pads first before doing any polishing (can't remember the name of them). Pretty sure Forensic Detailing tested them out a little while back. I've used them twice now with great success.. saves shaving off clear coat.
So assuming the car is ceramic coated, do you have to reapply to the whole car (meaning full decon and prep) or can you just apply to the spot or the whole hood ? Also I was given the advice to use a hair dryer to gently get out etching on small spots. Have you heard of this? Does it actually work ? My car is outside all day while I’m at work but garaged at night, I don’t have a machine polisher yet (new to detailing). Any help is appreciated 👍
any suggestion on just a daily cleanup fast wash. Example Did my full detail clean on Saturday, on Monday wife parks undera tree and gets a litte bird poop. What can I do to just clean this spot, with out doing foam and bucket wash.
Thanks for the valuable info, my car is white so I think this color stands out at birds eye view were darker colors tend to blend in with surroundings such as trees, grass dry or green and bushes cause I have a car parked on both sides of my car but it's my car that gets bombed, they even hit my car before I can finished drying the car after a wash ya it's that bad.
They will definitely help! This care does not have one yet. Ive been using it to do a test between 3 of the turtle was spray on ceramic products. The side that got the bird poop had Turtle Wax Hybrid Solutions Graphene and as you can see it did not help. Now that my test is done, i am going to be doing a correction and then applying a true ceramic coating! This still can happen with a ceramic, but it would take the dropping sitting on the paint much longer for it to cause that kind of damage if it did it all
Hey Josh great video. Question for you, was this car ceramic coated? If it wasn’t ceramic coated would the bird poop still create this much of a problem?
This care does not have one yet. Ive been using it to do a test between 3 of the turtle was spray on ceramic products. The side that got the bird poop had Turtle Wax Hybrid Solutions Graphene and as you can see it did not help. Now that my test is done, i am going to be doing a correction and then applying a true ceramic coating! This still can happen with a ceramic, but it would take the dropping sitting on the paint much longer for it to cause that kind of damage if it did it all
Polishing it's just a waste of time under those circumstances. Just start with 2500 grit and then medium polish with a 50/50 polishing pad. It makes it invisible.
I have a bunch of fine black spots stuck all over my car. It doesn't come off with normal washing and my fingernails don't do anything to them. What are they and is a claybar my best option since it's so much of my car? Is this the brake dust ppl talk about?
What if this panel is ceramic coated and you polish a section of it. Does that remove the coating? If so, do you recoat just that area or the entire panel? Ty
I missed a small bird dropping on a couple of the satin trim pieces on my brand new 2024 Nissan Z. I don't believe the trim pieces, namely the driver side window molding and the rear "katana blade" are clear coated. The window molding is satin black (I think) and has a small scar. The "katana blade" trim is some sort of silver but the bird dropping left a very faint orange stain that I can't wipe off with simple detailing solution in-a-bottle, even with a soft tooth brush. How would you attack these two situations?
Hey mate, love your work!👍🏻. I’ve got a similar problem but only noticed it after my car bonnet had been ceramic coated! What would you recommend? You can only see the etching in certain lights but it’s still doing my head in. Any advice would be appreciated!!👍🏻
Sounds like it was ceramic coated over the etching , thet probably did their best to polish it out before hand but there's only so much you can do . Your probably going to need to the panel repainted if you can't live with it .
@@paulreichelt1259 thanks mate. I’m guessing it will polish out after the coating wears off? It’s really minimal and nobody notices it except me 😵💫!! Kind of bugging me but can probably live with it tbh
Hey Josh. Would Kcx Greenstar be fine to wipe bird poop away. I tried at 5:1 but It left a white powdery residue look. I caught the bird poop incident right away so thank God it didn't hurt my paint on my vehicle
Dude super easy fix no joke grab a heat gun heat it up back and fourth safely then wait couple seconds to cool down and repeat and the etching will disappear I swear to you
Fuckign bird dropped a massive crap on my 440 today. I cleaned it within a couple of hours but it etched SO BAD! I don't have a machine polisher, only hand. looks like im going to have to have it detailed.
Can you do a video on how to wet sand safely? I have so many of these bird etchings from previous owners of my car and I am just looking for the best was to remove them safely, I’ve tried 1000-3000 grit sanding then the other steps followed and still wasn’t that much better. I was also pretty conservative with sanding though
Can you do a video on tree sap? We park under a pine tree and on very hot days we have to move out our driveway so no sap gets on my wifes car, she messed up the paint in one spot trying to remove it
U can clay bar and ceramic coat it and grab a quick detailer for the ceramic coating, either from chemical guys or other name brands, can't stop the tree sap just make it easier to clean lol
I got one on my dark blue mx5 last year when it was left for a couple days at a friends as it had a puncture, found a nice big bird poo on the bonnet when I came back. I lightly polished it and it is barely visible but didn’t want to go chasing it much as the paint is quite thin already.
Love the channel and all your wisdom on this business. I have a quick question, I own a Detailing business myself but have yet to find a product that gets the scratches from the inside plastic/ceramic trim on the car. I personally own a 2018 Audi A6 that has tons of scratches on the inside of the car. Do you have any experience restoring that?
Hey Josh hope all is well I get it youre keeping it simple and staying within the system of Yellow pad to yellow polish and blue with blue. Do you think the yellow pad with blue compound would of done anything decent or would it of been a waste of time and jumping blue and blue to save headache & time thank you!
No thats a great point. In this case, i think it needed the combo of the more aggressive pad and the more aggressive compound. But yes using the compound with the yellow pad would be a good in between step. Not quite as aggressive but more aggressive than the yellow pad with polish
If the car is ceramic coated then the damage typically should be less. If this one had a real coating on it, I think it would have taken more time for the bird poop to do that damge. But if it did, I would do the same process and then recoat that area
just a tip, turn ur levels down when recording, u are clipping :) or just get that zoom f2 (it has 32 bit float) so u dont have to deal with adjusting levels while recording, you will always be able to recover in post, need some help let me know, im local
Just a quick question, won’t that spot u worked with the polisher stick out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the hood? Wouldn’t u need to do a quick polishing pass over the whole panel to even it out, so it all looks the same? Or is that only a possibility and necessary on some cars where the existing finish is more oxidized and swirled.
Yea that can happen if the rest of the paint is in not very good condition. This car is going to be getting a full correction and ceramic coating now so i wasnt worried about it, but this cars paint wasnt very bad either and you have to search for the polished area
@@imjoshv thank u I was asking because when I did a quick one step test on my wife’s civic and only did half the trunk there was a huge difference and I wasn’t sure if would be like that all the time or if it was case by case depending on paint condition. Is just doing the whole panel a good way to kind of make it a little less obvious.
So...what do I need to do in order to fix an etching (quarter size on hood) that went all the way down to the primer in a few spots of that quarter sized etching? Thanks.
Any good detailing has an arsenal depending on the throw they want , Maxshine could have different specs that work better than Rupes in certain situations. Not every consumer wants to drop $500 on a DA either. Maxshine is more consumer friendly on the mid to low end
I did a clay bar the affected area after a wash then clean the clay bar off. Then I use C4 and P4 from chemical guys and resolve that nonsense high PH bird shit
@@imjoshv Great to hear from the man himself...thank you! Here in the UK you can get "Re-flow" from Autoglym brand. Mixed results though...they are basically plastic pouches with a kind of charcoal inside. You add 40 ml of cold water, seal the pouch and massage it. They react with the water and get hot / steam comes out of them in about 10 seconds via a vent you tear open. Then stick them to the panel with stickytape tabs provided and leave for 30 minutes. I've seen a video where they work on a roof (horizontal surface) but not on a door (vertical) - but I don't think the RUclipsr stuck it to the door correctly to be fair to the product. Please do research into the hot air gun technique first...I'd hate for anything to happen to that gorgeous Porsche! Great channel by the way!
You probably could but it would take a good amount of effort and would be hard to get a perfect finish. But I’m sure you could achieve a good improvement!
Suddenly, your turtle wax duel on the bonnet of the porshe will not have a result??. Birds love to poop on shiny things, some scientists even think that some birds are smart enough to really harm humans by pooping on their cars 🤣 . Unfortunately it happens to everyone. I have an old peugeot 205 turbo diesel for all day, and I had bird poo staying far too long on the right wing, the clear coat had even swollen and the clear coat to jump, suddenly it didn't there was nothing left to save 😢, just a brushstroke and clear coat and voila, luckily it wasn't one of the cars I take care of the most!
Ha yea this actually happened at a good time cause I was done with the test anyways. I had those on for a month and gave my findings from that, but i decided its time to properly correct the paint and give a true ceramic coating!
Hey Josh I've been watching your content for a while and I always come to your channel for the majority of my car detailing tips and tricks. Recently I watched your video about spot free washesm and wanted to ask if have you seen this video about the CR Spotless conversion kit? I'm curious to know your thoughts on this, or even a video covering it maybe in the future if you decide to give it a test run? ruclips.net/video/31D2FR3Ur1Q/видео.html
There are less expensive models that work great, I bought one for just $100 that came with two interchangeable filters and it’s been amazing. I’d rather spend $100 then $300 for the CR system
Hey Josh idk if you know but I just saw that hot wheels yes hot wheels releases a soap and waxes and a bucket like chemical guys maybe you can check it out and make a review on that
A bird pooped on my truck last night so bad it seemed personal. My GF thought it was funny i cleaned it off so fast so now ill show her this video as proof of what can happen. Thanks for all the tips and videos Josh!
Haha oh man i get it... And yea now you have proof to show her of why its not funny!
Great vid thanks - had the exact same issue and went for the compound/polish combo on a black Tesla Model 3 and it worked perfectly. Did it by hand too which worked just fine!
I sometimes have issues with birds leaving their calling cards but my main problem is trying to keep the neighborhood cats off my cars, always worried about them scratching my paint, great video Josh 👍😁
Cats trying to get the birds, you got a farm growing
Pellet gun 🫡
Same here, bro. I had the neighbor cats do their business in my car when I forgot to close my window.
@@validatedcustomer604don't do that man! Spray em with water or just scare them
Great video, Josh! I just had the same thing happen on the hood of my 2021 Mazda6. Sat out in the sun too long, and I didn't catch it in time. I tried Koch Chemie Micro Cut with the corresponding pad, and while it made it better, it didn't eliminate it. Problem is, the paint thickness in that spot is 3.1 😳 Just don't feel comfortable bumping it up to a compound. Oh well, like you said, you have be looking for it to really see it anyway. Sure wish manufacturers weren't making the paint so THIN these days...
Really good video. Wish I had watched this before I started the deck and hood.
Different subject: I just purchased my MJJC Pro V2 cannon from you. Thanks! MJJC no longer includes any extra filters. How often do you swap out filters if you rinse your foam cannon out with water everytime?
Hi, Yeah i actually never have with the ones i use. But, I use only ph neutral soaps with no wax additives. And i use it all the time so nothing has a chance to build up. Honestly, i think if you rinse it out after use you will be fine. The v2 mjjc upgraded a few components over the original so Its made to last
Great video Josh! I live in Minnesota and I swear the birds watch and wait for you to finish a detail. 😡 I have a similar 1” polisher and they are invaluable!
Awesome!
Yeah i work at a auto body repair shop detailing and the local Toyota dealership always brings the new cars with bird poo damage. There's so little clear on new cars these days. I panic inside when they tell us they're bringing one up for me to have a go at. Sometimes we have to paint. I honestly try to save the day but you cant win them all.
Next time try a heat gun to heat the paint. In many cases it will cause the damage to disappear without polishing
What temperature should the heat gun be used at?
@@alexf6021dont do it, use a polishing gun and some polishing compound. works within seconds
@@issakoreanwhy remove some clear coat when heat gun or even auto glym reflow pack can remove etching
ALWAYS use the least aggressive method when paint correcting
THATS THE FIRST RULE
I just did it and it 100% disappeared with no paint problems thx
@@boyasakaautoglym doesn't remove it fully it's crap pal
I'm at Automotive painter and the clear coat isn't as thick as you think it is on some of these cars
Yea i know and its unfortunate. It seems be getting less and less. I see a lot of Honda's with clear coat failure. Do you know any of the science behind that?
Hondas are some of the worst they don't even put clear coat inside the door jams anymore
Yeah the sciences that they don't put enough clear coat on they sell the car for as much as I can and put as little as as they can on it
@@richardmillelot285 Dam, I have a Honda 😕 What about Toyota, are they better in this aspect?
Great job on video, Josh.....thanks for sharing and stay safe and well! U Da Man!
I think that bird's diet was straight battery acid 😂. Another great video 👍
Real helpful video! Been fighting bird poop and other stains for years! My hood on my 2019 es350 is gonna need some work. Got a whole bunch of spots besides poop dont what is was. I'm gonna try this and see what happens.
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
Great video, thank you. But yeah, we need better paint technology!
I love your videos I think you do an awesome job
Thank you so much!
Before trying this, I'd like to suggest that you apply some WD40 to the area, leave it for a few seconds and then polish with a soft cloth.
It worked for me.
If it's fresh bird droppings, heat gun or even a hair dryer works great ;)
I just put a long compression dent in my truck passenger door this morning, It took a massive chunk of paint off as well, Im so mad at myself, you ever done any dent repairs before Josh? I’m curious… great vid man, keep em comin!
I got my MJJC and used it twice already and love it! Now I cant use it til I get my door repaired 😞
Finally got to try out the mjjc that i got from your website, combo with cg sticky snowball and i got super thick foam.
I'd just hit that with the edge of a wool pad on a rotary and be done in 10 seconds. The mini cordless makes more sense for tighter areas though. Good demonstration.
Yep that for sure would be faster, but i think for the average person a rotary with a wool pad may be scary for them
How does bird poop etch the clear coat? Like don’t we have the technology to create paints and clear coats that can combat bird crap by now?? Yet we can land on the moon and send massive telescopes into space, no problem. Just amazing
You sure about that moon landing lol?!
For your baby you need a very good car cover!!! Thanks for the video!! Hope all is well!!
Great video as always boss!
Appreciate it!
Great video! I have the same issue on my q50. I apparently did not go as agressive as I should have to get it out.
Howd you get it out?
@@DeathhAngel1 I didn’t
@@PMPerformance f#@$%ng birds man.
@@DeathhAngel1 agreed! It’s been driving me nuts and I want to get back to trying to get these stains out. This car for some reason is prone to birds dumping on it. Moreso than my other cars that sit outside.
I have the same issue. I tried with G9 and Sonax PF using orange Griot's pad.... Im new to polishing with less than 15 hours of polishing. I'm tempted to try again with a clean pad with the Makita 3" polisher to see if I can get a little better improvement.
I also have spots that I can't identify. Its a 08 Honda that was neglected and its hard to find information on this situation
If you catch a bird dropping early early enough, what works better without scratching or marring the paint? QD, waterless, or rinseless solution?
Another great tutorial Josh. Do you put any kind of coating over the area that you just polished the turd out of?
Yea Im going to be doing a fill correction on it now anyways and then putting on a true ceramic! But in most cases, just reapplying whatever protection was in that area is all that is needed
Hey boss I just detailed a car with this problem, I used my polisher exactly how you did
Did it come out well for you?
@@imjoshv it came out like a brand new car
@@imjoshv keep up the good videos they help me so much in my business in New jersey
Nice videos. Which brand/product name would you use to add extra protection from the get-go as a preventative method that will last atleast a few months of protection? Hybrid ceramic wax will prevent damage from bird poops?
The Rupes and not the Maxshine Mini? I figured this would be the perfect time to cash in on that partnership and test out their new polisher.
They have been out of stock. The rupes is definitely the most well know for this size polisher. I have about 5 other small polishers coming (including the maxshine) to test out and compare! The build quality of the rupes is fantastic but cost to value... we will see how it compares to the others.
l heard Cormorant bird poo is the most damaging
By any chance do you know the shelf life of polishes? I have a brand new 6 year old polish/compound and was wondering if it's safe to use on my car.
Curious. Did you have a coating on the car? If not, would that have made any difference?
enjoyed the video, I need the name of the tool if possible.
Will this work if the clear layer came off? Doesn’t look like damage to actual paint.
Would recommend checking out Autoglym's heat pads first before doing any polishing (can't remember the name of them). Pretty sure Forensic Detailing tested them out a little while back. I've used them twice now with great success.. saves shaving off clear coat.
Thanks mike, I’ll check those out for sure!
Autoglym reflow
This just happened to me. Was your car cermic coated? Mine is... after doing these steps do i have to reapply the ceramic coating?
What brand of mini buffer did you use and what brand of paint cleaner did you use?
So assuming the car is ceramic coated, do you have to reapply to the whole car (meaning full decon and prep) or can you just apply to the spot or the whole hood ?
Also I was given the advice to use a hair dryer to gently get out etching on small spots. Have you heard of this? Does it actually work ? My car is outside all day while I’m at work but garaged at night, I don’t have a machine polisher yet (new to detailing). Any help is appreciated 👍
any suggestion on just a daily cleanup fast wash. Example Did my full detail clean on Saturday, on Monday wife parks undera tree and gets a litte bird poop. What can I do to just clean this spot, with out doing foam and bucket wash.
Thanks for the valuable info, my car is white so I think this color stands out at birds eye view were darker colors tend to blend in with surroundings such as trees, grass dry or green and bushes cause I have a car parked on both sides of my car but it's my car that gets bombed, they even hit my car before I can finished drying the car after a wash ya it's that bad.
Oh man.. I know, its so annoying
Try using boiling water on the just makes them disappear like magic
Apc cleaner spray it on and let it dwell it will melt it away and spray off with water
I was always under the impression that the high end coatings would prevent that kind of damage from occuring.
They will definitely help! This care does not have one yet. Ive been using it to do a test between 3 of the turtle was spray on ceramic products. The side that got the bird poop had Turtle Wax Hybrid Solutions Graphene and as you can see it did not help. Now that my test is done, i am going to be doing a correction and then applying a true ceramic coating! This still can happen with a ceramic, but it would take the dropping sitting on the paint much longer for it to cause that kind of damage if it did it all
Hey Josh great video. Question for you, was this car ceramic coated? If it wasn’t ceramic coated would the bird poop still create this much of a problem?
This care does not have one yet. Ive been using it to do a test between 3 of the turtle was spray on ceramic products. The side that got the bird poop had Turtle Wax Hybrid Solutions Graphene and as you can see it did not help. Now that my test is done, i am going to be doing a correction and then applying a true ceramic coating! This still can happen with a ceramic, but it would take the dropping sitting on the paint much longer for it to cause that kind of damage if it did it all
@@imjoshv Follow up question on the same topic, how would you tackle the same problem with a ceramic coated car? same process?
Could you wet sand it off Josh?
Polishing it's just a waste of time under those circumstances. Just start with 2500 grit and then medium polish with a 50/50 polishing pad. It makes it invisible.
I have a bunch of fine black spots stuck all over my car. It doesn't come off with normal washing and my fingernails don't do anything to them. What are they and is a claybar my best option since it's so much of my car? Is this the brake dust ppl talk about?
Great video!! Could you give some hints or do a video about what to do when you get tree sap on the hood?
Goof off! Sometimes the sap can still cause some swelling but goof off will remove the sap and then you can polish
I got that off only using bilt hamber pre wash n auto form
I thought a sealant would have protected the clear coat.
What if this panel is ceramic coated and you polish a section of it. Does that remove the coating? If so, do you recoat just that area or the entire panel? Ty
i heard heat gun may fix this kind of damage?
Will you still be using the turtle was hybrid solution or who you still recommend it
I missed a small bird dropping on a couple of the satin trim pieces on my brand new 2024 Nissan Z. I don't believe the trim pieces, namely the driver side window molding and the rear "katana blade" are clear coated. The window molding is satin black (I think) and has a small scar. The "katana blade" trim is some sort of silver but the bird dropping left a very faint orange stain that I can't wipe off with simple detailing solution in-a-bottle, even with a soft tooth brush. How would you attack these two situations?
Hey mate, love your work!👍🏻. I’ve got a similar problem but only noticed it after my car bonnet had been ceramic coated! What would you recommend? You can only see the etching in certain lights but it’s still doing my head in. Any advice would be appreciated!!👍🏻
Sounds like it was ceramic coated over the etching , thet probably did their best to polish it out before hand but there's only so much you can do .
Your probably going to need to the panel repainted if you can't live with it .
@@paulreichelt1259 thanks mate. I’m guessing it will polish out after the coating wears off? It’s really minimal and nobody notices it except me 😵💫!! Kind of bugging me but can probably live with it tbh
How long the bird drop was there for. ?
Bro just today , I had a bird poop 💩 on my black m340i , I tried polishing it by hand , no luck 😢
Hey Josh. Would Kcx Greenstar be fine to wipe bird poop away. I tried at 5:1 but It left a white powdery residue look. I caught the bird poop incident right away so thank God it didn't hurt my paint on my vehicle
Dude super easy fix no joke grab a heat gun heat it up back and fourth safely then wait couple seconds to cool down and repeat and the etching will disappear I swear to you
Fuckign bird dropped a massive crap on my 440 today. I cleaned it within a couple of hours but it etched SO BAD! I don't have a machine polisher, only hand. looks like im going to have to have it detailed.
I dont remember which video it was you did, but can you link the clay disc you recommend.
Can you do a video on how to wet sand safely? I have so many of these bird etchings from previous owners of my car and I am just looking for the best was to remove them safely, I’ve tried 1000-3000 grit sanding then the other steps followed and still wasn’t that much better. I was also pretty conservative with sanding though
use 500 grit
Can you do a video on tree sap? We park under a pine tree and on very hot days we have to move out our driveway so no sap gets on my wifes car, she messed up the paint in one spot trying to remove it
U can clay bar and ceramic coat it and grab a quick detailer for the ceramic coating, either from chemical guys or other name brands, can't stop the tree sap just make it easier to clean lol
I got one on my dark blue mx5 last year when it was left for a couple days at a friends as it had a puncture, found a nice big bird poo on the bonnet when I came back. I lightly polished it and it is barely visible but didn’t want to go chasing it much as the paint is quite thin already.
Love the channel and all your wisdom on this business. I have a quick question, I own a Detailing business myself but have yet to find a product that gets the scratches from the inside plastic/ceramic trim on the car. I personally own a 2018 Audi A6 that has tons of scratches on the inside of the car. Do you have any experience restoring that?
Any advice?
Ammo NYC specifically has several videos on “how to polish interior plastic surfaces”. He even shows how to polish head unit plastic screens.
hey josh can i use nano car scratches on my car?
Spray some apc to clean it up
Hey Josh hope all is well I get it youre keeping it simple and staying within the system of Yellow pad to yellow polish and blue with blue. Do you think the yellow pad with blue compound would of done anything decent or would it of been a waste of time and jumping blue and blue to save headache & time thank you!
No thats a great point. In this case, i think it needed the combo of the more aggressive pad and the more aggressive compound. But yes using the compound with the yellow pad would be a good in between step. Not quite as aggressive but more aggressive than the yellow pad with polish
@@imjoshv Got it thanks! I always gotta complicate stuff and forget KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
If the damage is old forget it, improvements can be made but you can't get it all out, no way!
Try a heatgun before removing paint
Hi. What would you recommend to do if your car is ceramic coated and this happens? Thanks.
If the car is ceramic coated then the damage typically should be less. If this one had a real coating on it, I think it would have taken more time for the bird poop to do that damge. But if it did, I would do the same process and then recoat that area
just a tip, turn ur levels down when recording, u are clipping :) or just get that zoom f2 (it has 32 bit float) so u dont have to deal with adjusting levels while recording, you will always be able to recover in post, need some help let me know, im local
Just a quick question, won’t that spot u worked with the polisher stick out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the hood? Wouldn’t u need to do a quick polishing pass over the whole panel to even it out, so it all looks the same? Or is that only a possibility and necessary on some cars where the existing finish is more oxidized and swirled.
Yea that can happen if the rest of the paint is in not very good condition. This car is going to be getting a full correction and ceramic coating now so i wasnt worried about it, but this cars paint wasnt very bad either and you have to search for the polished area
@@imjoshv thank u I was asking because when I did a quick one step test on my wife’s civic and only did half the trunk there was a huge difference and I wasn’t sure if would be like that all the time or if it was case by case depending on paint condition. Is just doing the whole panel a good way to kind of make it a little less obvious.
I live on East Coast 5 min from ocean. I honestly think the seagulls aim for cars.
Ha I agree. So annoying
So...what do I need to do in order to fix an etching (quarter size on hood) that went all the way down to the primer in a few spots of that quarter sized etching?
Thanks.
Repaint
@@manvsdetails The whole hood?
@@DavidTMSN take it to a paint/body shop and see if they can just touch up and blend in with the rest of the hood
@@manvsdetails Okay. Thanks.
Can you not just use WD40?
What about cat pee damage?
F’n birds! Gettin to fly around and crap on stuff. I hate em too;)
What's a minute....the man who promotes MaxShine but using a Rupes. Let me guess...Do what I say, not what I do🤣🤣🤣
Any good detailing has an arsenal depending on the throw they want , Maxshine could have different specs that work better than Rupes in certain situations. Not every consumer wants to drop $500 on a DA either. Maxshine is more consumer friendly on the mid to low end
@@manvsdetails I was fuqing with him.
@@bklyn1267 🤙🏻
@@manvsdetails oh by the way everything you stated was facts.
Note to self: 4:50
I did a clay bar the affected area after a wash then clean the clay bar off. Then I use C4 and P4 from chemical guys and resolve that nonsense high PH bird shit
5 minutes with a hot air gun used sensibly re-flows the clear coat. You literally watch the etch disappear in front of your eyes.
I’ve heard that but never tried it myself. I’ll give it a shot
@@imjoshv Great to hear from the man himself...thank you!
Here in the UK you can get "Re-flow" from Autoglym brand. Mixed results though...they are basically plastic pouches with a kind of charcoal inside. You add 40 ml of cold water, seal the pouch and massage it.
They react with the water and get hot / steam comes out of them in about 10 seconds via a vent you tear open. Then stick them to the panel with stickytape tabs provided and leave for 30 minutes.
I've seen a video where they work on a roof (horizontal surface) but not on a door (vertical) - but I don't think the RUclipsr stuck it to the door correctly to be fair to the product.
Please do research into the hot air gun technique first...I'd hate for anything to happen to that gorgeous Porsche!
Great channel by the way!
“Just tap it in...”
Bird shit, you can say it.
Is it possible to do this by hand?
You probably could but it would take a good amount of effort and would be hard to get a perfect finish. But I’m sure you could achieve a good improvement!
@@imjoshv thanks
I just did it by hand with menzerna 2500 and a piece of cotton. I attempted 5 times and it perfectly disappeared.
@@kadirtas25 or get out your hair dryer for free
@@quarter_moon_and_a_guitar i didnt try hair dryer but hot water. But it didn’t work
Suddenly, your turtle wax duel on the bonnet of the porshe will not have a result??. Birds love to poop on shiny things, some scientists even think that some birds are smart enough to really harm humans by pooping on their cars 🤣
. Unfortunately it happens to everyone. I have an old peugeot 205 turbo diesel for all day, and I had bird poo staying far too long on the right wing, the clear coat had even swollen and the clear coat to jump, suddenly it didn't there was nothing left to save 😢, just a brushstroke and clear coat and voila, luckily it wasn't one of the cars I take care of the most!
Ha yea this actually happened at a good time cause I was done with the test anyways. I had those on for a month and gave my findings from that, but i decided its time to properly correct the paint and give a true ceramic coating!
Hey Josh I've been watching your content for a while and I always come to your channel for the majority of my car detailing tips and tricks. Recently I watched your video about spot free washesm and wanted to ask if have you seen this video about the CR Spotless conversion kit? I'm curious to know your thoughts on this, or even a video covering it maybe in the future if you decide to give it a test run?
ruclips.net/video/31D2FR3Ur1Q/видео.html
There are less expensive models that work great, I bought one for just $100 that came with two interchangeable filters and it’s been amazing. I’d rather spend $100 then $300 for the CR system
The truth comes out, stupid birds! Jk, great video!
Just wet sand it
Birds aren’t real.
🅿🆁🅾🅼🅾🆂🅼 🤷
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Hey Josh idk if you know but I just saw that hot wheels yes hot wheels releases a soap and waxes and a bucket like chemical guys maybe you can check it out and make a review on that
I went to the extreme and chopped down all volunteer mulberry trees around the house. They will not be dropping purple poops all over my vehicle!!!