With less than 500 miles on the odometer of our brand new M3LR in MSM paint, a bird pooped right in the freaking middle of the hood. It’s like they know. . .
Washed it today, but the bird poop left an etching in the clear coat, as they often do. I tried other various methods, and the etching would not come out. I was watching videos on polishers and polishing compounds, which i figured would have to be my next step, although drastic and I was pretty nervous about doing it, for fear of messing the paint up.
I was just about to say to heck with it, I will just live with the etch, but then found a video that talked about using heat to remove bird etchings. After watching that video, I then searched for others. Found one from a guy doing it to a Tesla. I watched that video, and decided to give it a go. Grabbed my wife's hair dryer, ran an extension cord, and started slowly heating. At first it didnt look like it was working, but it turned out i was being too timid, had the hair dryer too far away and not heating enough. Moved it closer, and in the span of less than a minute, the etching started disappearing before my eyes! I stopped periodically to check it, and then applied more heat. All in alll, took me about 5 minutes of carefully heating and checking, and now the etching is GONE!
Magic! ;-).
PSHere is the video i watched, for reference:
Washed it today, but the bird poop left an etching in the clear coat, as they often do. I tried other various methods, and the etching would not come out. I was watching videos on polishers and polishing compounds, which i figured would have to be my next step, although drastic and I was pretty nervous about doing it, for fear of messing the paint up.
I was just about to say to heck with it, I will just live with the etch, but then found a video that talked about using heat to remove bird etchings. After watching that video, I then searched for others. Found one from a guy doing it to a Tesla. I watched that video, and decided to give it a go. Grabbed my wife's hair dryer, ran an extension cord, and started slowly heating. At first it didnt look like it was working, but it turned out i was being too timid, had the hair dryer too far away and not heating enough. Moved it closer, and in the span of less than a minute, the etching started disappearing before my eyes! I stopped periodically to check it, and then applied more heat. All in alll, took me about 5 minutes of carefully heating and checking, and now the etching is GONE!
Magic! ;-).
PSHere is the video i watched, for reference:
