Plan B Forum

So here's the deal.

I have to park outside. The only spot available to me in the driveway is under the power lines where the birds often stop on the way to my feeders and thank me for the seed by pooping on my car.

The only other option would be to park on the street and people do park on my street and I haven't seen any damaged vehicles - it's a short dead end street with very low traffic, but some people do use it as a turn around (wide cul de sac) from businesses up the street, which is the only concern I have. But, it's a Corolla hatch is it really going to get stolen? I have wheel locks and the car gets locked these days because it sends me text messages if I forget lol.

At work, I have to park under a tree on really hot days because I don't want my car to become an oven inside especially with off gassing from all the 'new car' plastics etc. So my new car is getting bird pooped on just about daily.

And I keep reading online that it is really bad for the paint.

I took the car to the touchless carwash on the way home Friday and it's mostly shiny clean, but some of the bird poop didn't blast off in the wash.

So I am thinking weekly car washes (prior to this I had only been rinsing it off in the self wash bay), but I have to get something to dissolve/remove bird poops on the daily and need recommendations from folks who know a lot more about cars than me.

There are many products on the market and I'm sure not all of them are really good or even safe for the clearcoat.

I have also seen advice to just mix baking soda and tap water in a spray bottle for daily bird poop removal.



(This is where I really miss having a decades-old beater whose paint is shot and thus, no worries!)



Anyway all mansplaining about bird poop, tar, tree sap removal etc. welcomed and fully consented to.

Have you tried moving your bird feeder or discontinuing it? How about a plastic owl or hawk? And there's always car covers—they’re probably expensive, but you can always make your own (well, assuming you have some kind of sewing machine). I can make one, but I don't have the time, and besides, I wouldn't be able to get it to you anyway. Some people shy away from car covers because they might look odd to others, and they don't want to be thought of as eccentric or strange. Then there are those of us who just don't care. And another thing—be advised that bird poop of any type can contain some dangerous bacteria.

I park outside 100% of the time. I keep a roll of paper towels in my trunk, along with a spray bottle of car windshield cleaner and a container of Nucar wax. I try to hit the bird poop as soon as I notice it. I spot clean the bird poop with the glass cleaner and then hit it with a bit of the Nucar on a clean paper towel, and rub it out with clean paper towel. I noticed a couple of cars back that the glass cleaner would wash off the bird poop without taking off the wax or clear coat, if I got to it in less than a couple of days. I have a couple of places on a plastic light lens that has a hard dried drip that I have been chipping of a little at a time with my fingernail. I think that is tree sap. My car is now 7 years old and still looks pretty good. It was assembled in Canada during the week between xmas and New Year, and then sat on a dealer's lot in New Jersey for six months before a dealer in Delaware took it. I bought it in August. a month after it came to Delaware. I have no idea why it did not sell in New Jersey, It has given me no problems at al..

I regularly run it thru a car wash connected to a Shell gas station. The price of gas is reduced about a dime a gallon if I buy a car wash. It is Not the brushless type. Looks like big flaps of cloth whipping the car, with lots of water running over it.

snailgate.

Best option is to keep the vehicle clean and waxed.

We did this a while ago. You'll see names from the past such as Lord Jim, RayThom, Dales, wesw. It was a Corolla that started that thread. Just sayin' . . . .

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