Good morning. I bought a beautiful 2010 Lexus with beautiful paint with the exception of a faint “etching” in the paint, likely caused by bird droppings. How best to remove this damage without damaging fragile clear coat?

Your help is appreciated!

 

The only way to remove it is to machine polish it out

 

Thanks for your reply.can you recommend a suitable product, please? I have an orbital polisher.....

 

Etching can be very difficult depending upon how bad it is and what color paint you have. Severe etching may require wetsand or respray. An orbital polisher may not even have enough power to get the job done. What brand is your orbital polisher. I would start with less aggressive first like M205 and then work you way to more aggressive depending upon how experienced you are at detailing. If you are not experiences anything beyond orbital polishing I would leave to a pro. Consulting Autogeek forum may be very helpful as well.

 

Check out the detailing forum. Look at this one.https://www.clublexus.com/forums/aut...bird-poop.html

 

I agree with the above.

 

Also, look at this one too. Good Luck. https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...uhhhhgggg.html

 

sonax cut max with orange pad

sonax perfect finish with white pad

wax or ceramic coat

beautiful

 

first iron x car car pro

then clay bar griots garage and clay lubricant

then the sonax products

 

Depending on the orbital polisher he has the orange pad may not even be able to work to its full potential.

 

This sounds like a perfect plan, thanks for the advice with specific product recommendations, very useful! And appreciated

 

should add another suggestion and the other poster brought up a good point.

I use the orange and white and feel comfortable that I am not going to harm the clear with a too aggressive pad,

I would pick up one of the meguiars microfiber pads that get great reviews on amazon
its a little more aggressive than the orange but like the other poster said it might do wonders with the spotting.

as far as sonax, they are brilliant products the perfect finish is awesome and cut max will help with tough stains...

cheers

 

With thanks to nice well informed people like you, I just placed my order at Amazon for the pads and Sonax products. Thanks again

 

cheers my friend, it will make us happy to see before and after photos.

love this community we are all here as a family to share, be safe

 

I have used a micro mesh extra fine sandpaper to wetsand marks from my paint with no discernible difference. It was 3200 grit.