Some fool egg'd my car

[ralphy]

well i have a 05 xr6, woke up one morning after it being parked on the road to find a nice big egg all down the side of my car :evil3: , any ideas about gettin it off properly, it had been sitting there all night so kinda gave time for the egg to soak in, will getting it detailed get rid of it??? any help much appreciated, cheers :jab:

[poolkeeper]

hose it off?

[ralphy]

egg dont come off that easily, i took off what i could, but apparently it eats into the clear coating and wrecks your paint

[Falcon4L]

yeah that sounds about right.... give it a good clean, clay bar and then hit it with a buffer and some low grit polish... should look like new again

[Airmon]

Yeah get it off ASAP, had this happen to a mate and by the time they washed it off the paint had started to peel off the roof and bonnet.

[ralphy]

yes it isnt good, only had the car like few months, love it to death, its only done 28000k's all up and 4000 of em are mine, grrrr well my mates taking it to work tomorrow to get it detailed, hopefully that will get rid of it :( me said for my car lol

[Dezza]

I used warm soapy water to get it off mine. Luckily it was on the windscreen rather than the paintwork. It took a LOT of scrubbing but in the end I got it all.

[ralphy]

well getting it on paintwork is so not good for it, grrrr bloody kids

[RG]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but it has already eaten the paint. Had this happen to mine and I cleaned it off after less than two hours, I still have a couple of marks where it was.

[ralphy]

yer i know its pretty much stuffed :( well ill see how the full detail on it goes tomorrow, have to see about getting it re painted if it dont come off :(

[[Tonko]]

That sucks, it happened to a mate on the weekend too.
He didnt notice until the next morning, by then it had eaten right into the black paint on his SS.

Not looking good for ya mate.

[Hunter]

Use warm soapy water and be reeeeallly gentle.

Be lucky you didn't get it like I did once - driving my old bomb (it was a Holden, now a cube thank god) home from the shops one night and some little s**ts threw eggs - one went on the roof and one, unfortunately for me, went through the passenger side window (which was open) and landed on the seat next to me. I reefed the handbrake on and did a U turn came screaming back but alas the little bastards had decamped.

[HLC]

my car got egged at work once.

the maintenance guy told me about it, so went and cleaned it off the bonnet where it hit straight away. all came off no worries, but it chipped the paint from the impact.

unfortunately, i didnt notice the egg that hit the rear quarter for 2 days. working night shift will do that to you. and by then the paint was rooted.

[Brute6]

Originally Posted by HLC

... but it chipped the paint from the impact.

Thats what I was gonna bring up. My partners car was egged, got it off straight away, but there was a ring of small chipped paint left as evidence.... Bastards.....

[fairmont1998]

Originally Posted by Brute6

Thats what I was gonna bring up. My partners car was egged, got it off straight away, but there was a ring of small chipped paint left as evidence.... Bastards.....

My EL has a ring of chips in the paint too from being egged out the back of work. Amazing how much damage something as delicate as an egg can do :

[RegSpec]

Ours got egged about two years ago.....disgruntled kid did every car in the teachers carpark at the school where my wife works.....
He got seen doing it though....and once my missus gave me his address.... :
I got a dozen eggs....left em' out for about a month...would have stunk like all hell.....then I went down to his house late one night and used every last one of them, and a can of selleys expanding foam on his car.....but I did a much more thorough job ... tool :

[BIGJB]

Originally Posted by Hunter

Use warm soapy water and be reeeeallly gentle.

Be lucky you didn't get it like I did once - driving my old bomb (it was a Holden, now a cube thank god) home from the shops one night and some little s**ts threw eggs - one went on the roof and one, unfortunately for me, went through the passenger side window (which was open) and landed on the seat next to me. I reefed the handbrake on and did a U turn came screaming back but alas the little bastards had decamped.

At least ya didn't end up wit egg on ya face.....

I have on many occaisions chased little pricks down the road\over gutters\through parks
for throwin s... at my car.

[ebxr8240]

Prawns under wheel arch in plastic bag .. Phhhooooo !!

[ILLaViTaR]

Damn straight it doesn't come off easy

Mine got egged and for good reason!!!
For a laugh I blu tacked a Commodore badge (from a VL) onto my boot, didn't think of the consequences.

but god it was so funny when all the wogs at Macca's come over with their Camera phones.

[new2ford]

I wonder - if an egg does that to your car duco, what does it do to the inside of your body???

[nugget378]

Originally Posted by new2ford

I wonder - if an egg does that to your car duco, what does it do to the inside of your body???

Your stomach and gut can hardly be compared to paint,what would stomach acids do to paint I wonder:

[jcxr]

OLd prawn or left over cray shells is the answer. Shove 'em down the air intake at the bottom of the windsreen, eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww.

[Hunter]

Originally Posted by nugget378

Your stomach and gut can hardly be compared to paint,what would stomach acids do to paint I wonder:

They do eat paint, I've seen it . Friend of a former friend had a guy hang out her window and cry ruth down the side of the car. By the time they'd gotten it off it had hardened and gone all grotty. Paint was visibly faded on the spot after

[ea90gl]

Forget old prawns grab yourself some fish oil and go nuts, you could smell that stink from blocks away

[new2ford]

Originally Posted by nugget378

Your stomach and gut can hardly be compared to paint,what would stomach acids do to paint I wonder:

Don't take me too seriously, I'm still eating eggs LOL!

[XR6_190]

It happened to me back when I was 17.

I had a '89 Hyundai Excel :that I was learning to drive manual in, also ended up as my first car, I used to park it on the street in front of my house, (We live in a seemingly quite Cul-de-sac) I got home from an early morning shift (3AM to 11AM on a sunday morning) to find egg all over my car, even though it was a crappy Hyundai, I was still ****ed.

I put the car onto the grass (back when you could wash the car at home) and got it off with a hose, sponge and some soapy hot water, it would have been there for a few hours, on poor quality paint and the result was pretty good, not a sign of the egg and all was forgotten.

The microbes that carry out these acts really are of total insignificance.

[dom_105]

I had a bad streak recently where my (grey) XF was done over about 3 times in about 3 months. I was lucky in a sense that the majority of the egg hit the window as opposed to the door, but it still ran right down the door.

Bit of soap, and a bit of water and it looked like it just rolled off the line at Broady. Still does.

[colossus]

You should have shot the egg throwers execution style:

News link <click>

[merlin]

Originally Posted by colossus

You should have shot the egg throwers execution style:

News link <click>

You know the old saying.....Never bring an egg to a gunfight.

[Hunter]

OMG look at what these scum have done:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...64-952,00.html

Woman hit by egg loses partial sight in one eye
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September 10, 2008 11:42am

A WOMAN has lost partial sight in one eye after being hit in the face by a raw egg thrown from a passing car at North Adelaide.

The woman, aged in her 20s, was walking in a northerly direction on the eastern footpath of O'Connell Street at about 12.30am on Monday, September 1, when she was hit.

The unprovoked attack, by a male passenger in the car, happened near Archer St.

She was taken to Royal Adelaide Hospital for emergency treatment but has since lost partial sight in her left eye, which requires further treatment.

In an unrelated incident last night, a boy, 5, suffered a cut head from a glass fragment when a shop window was "shot" by a ball bearing or marble at Blair Athol.

Police said a person in a passing vehicle fired the projectile into a chicken shop window on Main North Rd at about 8.10pm.

The glass chard hit the boy, who was a customer in the shop.

He was treated at the Women's and Children's Hospital and allowed to leave.

Police have asked anybody with information on either incident to contact BankSA Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.