In much the same way as I always recommend that people buy unpainted stone or brick houses that are situated on high ground, I also recommend people not to park their cars under trees.
Especially if you live by the sea where there are plenty of Seagulls; or (even worse) Albatrosses!
This person was obviously not able to benefit from my sound advice, and will be in for bit of a shock when he or she returns.
Off to the carwash with you!
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I have a painted concrete mushroom in my garden that is suffering the same effects from the parrots eating my half ripe plums.
Birds have no shame. We have some small red-fleshed Plums in France. When the birds poo after eating them, it comes out RED.
So that is what English chips look like after seagull processing.
Blame the parents. They didn't potty train their offspring.
One hilarious dilemma of parking when it's baking hot: Do you park under a tree (shade) and live with the birds' "fall out" or toast your car in the big wide open of a carpark?
U
Fish-n-Chips deconstructed.
Cars are built to withstand heat, they are not built to self-clean.
Starling's poo is the worst. Purple. Do seagulls sit in trees? I don't think I've ever seen one there.
I wasn't thinking of the car's welfare but the driver's (dis)comfort on getting into an overheated tin.
U
These days they have wind-down windows for cooling.
They do, but I think in this case it's Pigeons.
Cro.....
The carwash may be too late.....
there is a very corrosive element in bird ess-aitch-eye-tea-eye..... the witer the poo, the worse the corrosion on these new paintworks....
the old paint we can't use anymore was harder and more resistant.... this two-pack rubbish is much softer.
Living in a seaside town, our cars and our clothes are constant targets for seagulls. Their aim is pretty accurate too.
I believe it contains Uric Acid, which can be very corrosive. A Land Rover might cope, whereas a Trabant might not.
When they aim for your pristine, newly-painted, white exterior wall; they need shooting.
Don't bank on it. At least you didn't mention air conditioning.
U
In seaside towns, when choosing the paint colour for a new car, it's wise to select either "herring gull white" or "Jackson Pollock cream".
I'll remember that. I'm now regretting that we chose Dalmatian.
You can get plastic covers for cars, but they're a bit naff.
Luckily I have a garage, but we do use a cover in France when it's frosty.
Well, now, that's a sight to come back to.
It was even worse when I went past it just now.
It is parking places like this, where unsuspecting people park, which bulk out the income of car-wash firms.
Sound Advice.....A more apt title would be Crap Advice.
Or a couple of kids with a bucket and sponge!
General advice, of a shitty nature.
Neighbors finally had multiple trees cut down on their property after 30+ very large vultures (aka turkey buzzards-a protected species here) made their home in them at night. Every morning, the neighbor's cars were entirely covered in buzzard shite. Not enough car covers in the world to deal with that daily mess. It was beyond disgusting.
Poor buggers. And that stuff is really hard to clean off. Here it's pigeons. But up where we live it's more mice chomping on the wiring.
Darn wildlife
The Fiat has now gone, and has been replaced by a nice new Mini Clubman; someone else is going to have a surprise!
I always try to forgive the Mice, but not when they chewed through the wiring in the Pool House electrics.
A chipmunk once set our truck afire. They love wires too.
Oh dear, I always thought of them as 'cute'.
Trabant had a fibreglass body
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