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Letter 23016 Can an egg damage car's clear coat?
Second of two simultaneous responses +++ An egg can cause staining of a car's clear coat. Ask my wife, she had two eggs thrown at her car by some students. The eggs were not immediately washed off and left lots of hazy white spots all over the car that couldn't be washed off later. Moral - avoid students during their post-exam festivities or don't drive cars near universities.
+++ Yes sir, egg can damage car's clear coat because it sticks on that. When we try to remove that then it leaves white spots. Jyoti B [name deleted for privacy]
+++ How about teaching your kid to respect other people's property. YES it damages paint and YES it costs a lot to fix - basically you have to repaint everywhere that got egged, which is at least a few hundred dollars. John S [name deleted for privacy]
+++ I would like some more information on the damage eggs do to cars, especially if on a blue metallic paint. My cousins car was egged and she was told her paint would need to be stripped entirely and repainted at a cost of $AUS 5500. Does this sound correct? If anyone could help or give advice and information it would be much appreciated. Kate W [name deleted for privacy]
++++ My stupid ex-girlfriend thought it would be funny to throw eggs at my car. When I noticed it happened, I immediately got a sponge and began washing it but it was three in the morning so I decided to wait until the next day to wash it. Unfortunately, it left a lot of marks that would not come off after washing it several times. I'm told that the protein in eggs mix with something in the paint and that is what damages it. If you dries and the paint, supposedly, that will get the protein out. I am going to try that tomorrow. Joe L [name deleted for privacy]
++++ Say, Joe, maybe you have the answer then: Which came first, the chick ex'd or the egg?
++++ You SERIOUSLY need to teach your child some respect for the personal property of others. Some punk decided to egg my Dark Blue F250 one Friday night on a weekend when I just so happened to be ill and didn't leave the house for two days. I go out of the house Monday morning for work to find somebody was kind enough to throw ONE egg at my F250 Crew cab which up until that point had a near perfect paint job. This was in mid summer too so by the time I had seen what had happened it was too late. I got out some Simple Green [link is to product info at Amazon] and a towel and scrubbed off the egg itself but where the egg made contact with the paint the finish is almost like the crinkle finish you find on certain hand tools or exhaust manifolds. In other words FUBAR. Jared J [name deleted for privacy]
+++++ Yes, egg will damage the paint on your car. My 1997 Pontiac was egged and the paint peeled right up. Not a good situation. Edward P [name deleted for privacy]
+++++ There is nothing you can really do about egg once its dried on your car's paint. Use Bug Off/ Tar Off -- that helps, Or household ammonia (tsp with a cup of water) but either get touch up paint from the dealer or get it repainted.. sucks. Sam [name deleted for privacy]
+++++ Early this morning, around 3 am I'm figuring...my vehicle got egged. I raced to the carwash at about noon today, and it was too late. The clearcoat on the driver's side door is ruined. I tried a little bug/tar remover and it helped a bit, but in general its going to need new paint on the door. YES...egg ruins your finish. Monty W [name deleted for privacy]
+++++ My car was egged on Monday night. The eggs made little white swirls all over my door. I got an estimate for 300 bucks to repaint the door on my brand new Honda Accord. I think its really dumb how the parent above is trying to challenge that the egg can't ruin the paint from the cars that her son threw eggs at. He should pay and have to do community service to learn respect for his community. Brian W [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ I think anyone who throws eggs at someone's car is a punk that needs to be disciplined severely. Community service is not enough. They need to be arrested if found. My daughter's 1991 Mustang with a black paint job that she worked very hard for has a ruined hood because of a loser kid that has no respect for other people's property. Jerry N [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ Some jerk egged my car last night... Anyone have any idea how much it would cost to have my trunk lid repainted? 2004 Honda Accord. no damage from egg yolk/whites, just impact damage. arggh!!! damn kids. Jennifer D [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ Hi there, Jason M [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ Jason... David G [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ The guy who worked at the paint shop is only half right. Yah, you can make the damage worse by picking the egg off, and Yah, you can get the egg off if you wash the car slowly and carefully, but the paint is always stained, the albumin in the egg discolors the paint deep into the surface and ruins the finish. Not only that but the egg breaking will also ruin the paint, often creating a star-like pattern of cracks and paint chips where the egg shell gouged into the paint. How could this be, you may wonder? Well, the egg itself is an amazingly strong and resilient container. It's shape allows a very thin hard structure to protect it's gooey interior, which does nothing structurally to keep the egg from breaking. If you are unlucky enough to have the egg strike the car on the "pointy" end of the egg (which is undoubtedly the strongest part of the structure), the impact will force the shell chips to make about fifty little paint chip gouges and to crack the surface of your paint. I know this, because this happened to my car last night, when some little punk egged my car, and ruined the finish. This is the second time my car has been egged, and both times the paint was damaged in this way, as well as suffering a large paint-stained area. So I have sent out evil-death-from-boils mojo towards the little snot who egged my car. You are basically a real primo jackass if you egg a car, you are in essence destroying the entire paint job on the car... To the woman whose son egged the car, STOP DEFENDING HIM AND DISCIPLINE HIM. He did it, and is a vandal. Teach him to be responsible for his vandalism, and that he must pay if he chooses to wreck other people's stuff. AND DON'T YOU PAY FOR IT, MOMMY... Make him pay, and then he will LEARN to be a citizen. Jerzy K [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ My 2005 Black Metallic Jeep Grand Cherokee was egged last
night. Ang N [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ Someone smashed an egg inside the door of my gas tank and it oozed
all down the passenger side of the car. It looked like milk or even
ice cream and my kids didn't think anything about it(!). I discovered
little bits of egg shell and yolk inside the gas tank door one day
filling up my tank. That was when they told me it had been there
awhile. We have been having some pretty hot weather and sitting on
black top most of the day is even hotter so I figure that egg had
been baking on my car for the better part of a week. Leslie M [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ My car got egged. I just moved into the neighborhood and JUST
bought my new Honda Civic LX. It had to have been after 11:30 pm as I
hadn't been home until 11 and forgot my cell in my car so I'd gone
out around 11:25 or so. I went out to my car for work the following
morning to find my entire windshield COVERED in yellow yolk and nasty
slimy, my hood chipped up by the sprayer nozzles, and it looks like a
4th egg ricocheted off of one of the nozzles to the top of the
windshield where it splattered yolk all over the hood of my car.
Luckily, most of the eggshell was gone, and I picked what I could off
of the car with my fingers. I had to find an ice scraper in a box in
my garage to scrape the thick yolky puss goo off of my window so I
could see, and immediately took my car to a pressure wash (20 minutes
late for work already). That got about 1/2 of the coating off of my
windshield, so I ran it through again and it got most of it off.
After doing it by hand in the do it yourself bay, I got all of the
gooey stuff off, only to discover the series of 27 tiny chips where
the egg had impacted on my hood and cracked my nozzle. Daniella M [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ As a victim of car egging, I can vouch that eggs WILL IN FACT
_DESTROY_ PAINT. My brand new 2006 Silverado was egged as well as my
wife's Cavalier and LUCKILY I got it all off with minimal damage to
my truck. My wife, however, was very unfortunate. It got left on for
a few days and it literally ate its way through the paint down to the
metal. The paint began to peel off of the car. Eggs are _VERY_ acidic
and it's the acid within that eats the paint. Eggs should be left on
the car for no more than an hour or two before physical damage
begins. I had a special polymer coating on my paint which saved my
butt I think. It ate through the polymer coating which bought me some
extra time before it hit the actual paint. Joshua B [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ MY car was egged back in June up where I'm currently at school. They broke the eggs over my car so lucky me, I had no shell damage. They covered the car in egg. The most damage was on the hood of the car. Has a leathery type texture to it. If it doesn't get fixed, mother nature will wear off the clear coat in a year or two. There are spots all over the car. It will cost over 2 grand to fix. Check your state laws of vandalism. First off, get a free estimate at the paint shop. In my case, the people who did this will be fined up to 10 grand and spend 1-5 years in prison if convicted of injury to property in excess of 1,000 in damages. I think it's 400 in California. If you ever find out who egged your cars, press charges. It'll be a lesson they never forget. Jared S [name deleted for privacy]
++++++ Yeah, I just got egged last night. It was a pretty cool temperature this morning (being December), so that may have saved me some time to get it cleaned off. I have a brand new BLACK 2006 Mustang. I haven't noticed any fading...yet. But I do have the tale-tell swirl marks and one tiny chip of paint where the egg smashed into the car. Now I have to pay $300+ for a 10 cent egg being smashed into my car by some half-wit teenager who doesn't understand the damage it can do. There is no thought process for the punks that do this kind of stuff. No thoughts of "Gee, when I get a brand new car, would I be happy if someone eggs it and destroys the paint job?". You think it's funny until it happens to you. Brian H [name deleted for privacy]
May 30, 2008 Use vaseline intensive care lotion to take the stains out of the paint. And please forgive my son and I he was only 12 at the time and we went to get back at someone who egged and Tee-Pee'd us first. However, his friends thought it would be okay to do this to others as well.-Not part of the plan. Mary Senn
June 1, 2008 My four week old 2008 Silverado got hit over Memorial Day weekend. One egg passanger side, didn't realize for half a day. Cleaned up alright with the exception of a 1X1 imperfection of the paint. Kids will be kids (Still doesn't make it right). Steven Castillo
July 19, 2008 I not only had my SUV egged last night, but they threw nail polish remover and washable paint on it too, its a 2006 XL-7, and my DH silverado also just got egged, we found it at 9am, on a day that's supposd to go up to 95 degrees, and we rushed to the car wash, got most off, and no major damage, YET...but did eat into his black vinyl on rear bumper and the side black glossy finish, we are just hoping this does not happen again, as we feel it is a enemy of my daughters, no one else's car got egged, just ours! If I ever find out who did this, I think I'll kick their a**! Rebeca Olney
Ed. note: See Letter 29067 for more about cars and eggings
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