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Triumph TR6 - Seagull sh1t

Really p1ssed off this morning. I painted my hood a day ago and it was looking immaculately blackened.
This morning I walked outside to find seagull sh1t right in the front centre of the hood. Whats more annoying is that it doesnt seem to want to wash off.
Any ideas..? Rats with wings, grrrrrrrrr.....
james

Move inland.
Bryn

James, you gotta get that stuff off quick or it will mess up your paint. Usually a good strong spray and some Ivory soap will do it.

John
JL Bryan

James,

Seagull doody is some very acidic s**t. If the hood was recently painted and has not cured, you've got a permentant stain unless you redo the hood. It has become one with the paint by now.

Moving inland is an option, but I live 75 miles from the ocean and I see seagulls from time to time. Those rats like to travel.

Chalk this up as a learning experience. Garage the car or cover it once you get it pack to pristine,

Don from Jersey
Don from Jersey

Gee, we used to think the geese were bad, didn't we? Or maybe the geese were talking to the seagulls???? Where is Jim D when we really want to blame his goose??
Rod
Rod Nichols

"Sometines sh**t happens."-Forest Gump
BTP Price

If the stain won't wash out you can "colour sand" the hood starting with 1500 grit sandpaper on a block with lots of water. Then polish with three grades of progressively finer liquid products from Macquire's.
You'll need a variable speed polisher to do a proper job.

That's what the old British car makers did after spraying paint with no proper down draft booth. They would lay a thick layer of paint full of imperfections and then colour sand it to a mirror finish.

John Parfitt

John Parfitt

James,
As one who lives with Sea Gulls I can attest that their crap will ruin a paint job. Not so much with the newer catalytic and clear finishes, but it is murder on single stage paint. If it hasn't etched too deep you might be able to polish it out, other wise it's a sand and repaint but you will need to take it down to base coat where the damage is. Moving inland wont work as nowhere in England is beyond the reach of Sea Gulls. Remember, the Utah state bird is, you guessed it, a Sea gull.
Joe Justice
Joe Justice

James:

Are we talking roof/top (hood) or bonnet (hood) here in Britspeak? "Got it nicely blackened" does not necessarily indicate you painted your bonnet black. Was it the top? Can you paint a vinyl top? If that's the case maybe a drycleaner could offer suggestions. I had a buddy had a 280-Z with 10 coats of black lacquer; got married a couple days later & the guys shaving creamed the car all over with Just Married & other crap. Ruined a very expensive paint job! Sorry, 1:30 a.m.; just got home from the garage. Must've had the car running too long.

Cheers,
Bob
Bob Evans

that's my hood as in soft top (convertible) ..
painted the vinyl black again......Brit language!!
if it had dropped its gift on my paintwork i wouldnt have minded as it needs a respray anyway!
james

James:

Looks like we speak the same language. Glad you solved your hood problem. Too bad you had to repaint it but it sure beats colour sanding vinyl right? Sea-rats just have no respect. Imagine shatting on a TR6. Ought to be a bounty on the buggers, wot?

Cheers,
Bob

Bob Evans

James,
I got my car from the Victoria area, on Vancouver Island. The place is a haven for the sea rat. There was a nasty deposit in the center of the hood/bonnet that the DPO had tried to scrape off. I washed and gently scraped away (with a plastic spatula) the remainder of the recycled garbage. I then used a fine metal polish to worry away the scratches and blemishes. It worked. Now the spot is hardly noticeable. I used Blue Magic Metal Polish Cream and followed up with Zymol polish and then cleaner wax. It took some patience and a lot of rags, but the result was worth the trouble. The story is "get that crap off ASAP"
Good luck with your cleanup,
Steve
Steve Crosby

James
Shame on you...you gotta remember you are talking to a bunch of Yanks and Canucks who do not speak proper English. You must have been wondering "why is everyone suggesting to sand it out?"...:)
AH... but Mr. Evans saw through you in your attempt to lead us down the garden path:) I suppose this is true because he lives closer to you than the rest of us. The other part that threw us off is that most guys on this side of the pond would not consider painting our TOPs (hood).
OK so I think I got it
Bonnett....the front of the car
Hood.....the middle of the car
Boot....the rear of the car.

Now if we could just do something with those S..T hawks. I swear..any bird flying overhead sees a shinny clean car below and has dreams of grandeur of being a WW2 dive bomb pilot.
Rick C
Rick Crawford

One seagull to the other:

"Did you see that nice black Triumph down there?"

the other:

"Yup, I spotted it!"
Tom

This thread was discussed between 11/05/2005 and 31/05/2005

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