I went for a drive in bugeye this morning and noticed that it had been egged by some clown(s), worked out that it must have happened late Thursday night when I went into the beach so now it's dried there like glue, bloke across the road reckons it will stuff the paint, at the moment I have it in the shed with wet cloths on it to try to soften the egg before removing it.
Should I take any other precautions before I wash it off, that is if the wet cloth does the trick softening the mess and what can I expect to find when I do clean it off.

I think it does do something to the paint it happened to my car when i first got my ps i was driven along and this car over took and threw one and it hit the side of my car ut i didnt realise till couple days later and ow the paint looks a bit patchy ther.

Happened to me years ago and each hit was like a thousand little cuts in a circular pattern my car then was red and you really noticed it I would not worry about the goo its the shell that does the damage

Hiya donn,

Yes, you should panic.

The proteins in egg albumen wreak havoc with most paints. Quite a good "natural" paint stripper actually.

There are a couple of approaches to this problem and theyinvolve warm/hot water. Some say that a 50/50 mix of vinegar and hot water will do the job. Soak a small towel in this mixture and let it sit on the stain for a half hour or so. Hopefully this loosens the egg and facilitates its removal.

Some substitute detergent for the vinegar. The idea here is that some detergents attack protein based stains. Since an egg is mostly protein this seems like a workable idea.

And one other approach is to coat the egg splatter with petroleum jelly. This is supposed to rehydrate the egg and loosen it off the surface.

But truthfully, if that egg has been there for a while the paint is probably already damaged.

just blooby hose it off man.
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Bloody hell and bastard, did all of the above, yeah Ian even your tip, thought I had got away with it but when it dried off there was the marks, looks like it has taken the shine off the surface though it's not something that can be felt and can only be seen in some lights and from some angles, I'll try a bit of #2 polish see if that helps, bugger, looks like I,v' got to go looking for some egg throwing shit heads and beat them till they lay a few of their own, mongrells.

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Originally posted by donn I went for a drive in bugeye this morning and noticed that it had been egged by some clown(s), worked out that it must have happened late Thursday night when I went into the beach so now it's dried there like glue, bloke across the road reckons it will stuff the paint, at the moment I have it in the shed with wet cloths on it to try to soften the egg before removing it. Should I take any other precautions before I wash it off, that is if the wet cloth does the trick softening the mess and what can I expect to find when I do clean it off.

You been eating icecreams again Lee....

A finer polish than number 2 cut is a crc product called paint doctor and the finest cut that i know of is a silk stocking with cornflour in it and a little water.Paint doctor is good at small blemishes and stains see how you go

Is the paint Acrylic laquer, or Two part Urethane Enamel (2 Pak). Is it clear over base (COB) or solid colour?

If it is 2 Pak, solid or COB you wont have much of a problem. It will come off, and a good hard pad cut and a dimple pad finish will do the trick.

If it is acrylic, then there is no repair if it has leached through the paint.

In these situations where an offending matter that damages the paint is involved, waxes offer almost no protection and no special armour if the offending matter is acidic, caustic or abrasive enough to get through. Waxes are good at protecting against oils.

If egg is left on paintwork for any extended length of time no matter what the paint type damage will occur. not just from the shell impact but also the yoke. In some cases I have seen it remove all layers of paint right down to bare metal. Even if you have a good coat of wax/polish on your car damage will still occur. I see roughly 3-4 cars a week at work that have have had eggs thrown at them and the disbelief on the owners faces when I tell them the consequences is one of absolute horror that an egg could do so much damage.

Tooth paste will also work as a cutting agent so will talcum powder but these are all for finishiing so not to good.

The 'Paint Doctor' gear is good stuff....My brother-in-law backed his almost new Falcon into a bollard and left a massive green stripe on his beautiful silver paint.

When I saw it, he hadnt done anything with it, and it had been that way for at least a couple of weeks.

I thought I would be a good brother-in-law and went to the local auto parts joint near where he lives and found the 'Paint Doctor' tube and gave it a go.

Incredible results!! It took the 'new' green paint from the bollard straight off his panel work and left the factory paint underneath glossy and like new....with a minimum of effort (always a good thing when it isnt your car and you dont feel like doing any hard work!! )

Sorry to hear about your local knucklehead issue.....people can be so stupid!! GRRRR!!!!! (I thought the price of eggs would deter people from doing this sort of stuff!!)

Yeah, they are out there throwing them at our cars, my daughter in law works at a Coles outlet and says that the number of young kids that come in to "buy eggs for my mum" is amazing, as there is no law against the purchase of eggs by youguns she warns all those that come through her checkout that if she finds that her car has been egged she will track them down and do horrible things to them, so far her car has escaped being the target though purely out of luck as they wouldn't know which car is hers.