What are they leaving on the paint?
I have had two really sticky residues left on mine in the past couple of weeks, and have no idea what they were
The mayfly season has started, with a nice even distribution of them over my three cars every day. They are a towering pain to get off the paint, does anyone have a working solution (other than smearing Vaseline over the paint, selling my cars or moving) please? Alternatively can anyone recommend a good, cheap car cover please? It's only needed for the next month or so.
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What are they leaving on the paint?
I have had two really sticky residues left on mine in the past couple of weeks, and have no idea what they were
I imagine they are messy but I would advise against a car cover , the cars needs to be clean before you put it on and even then they can marr the paintwork .
I don't tend to drive them much so keeping them clean (and dry) isn't a huge issue.
They're not just messy, they stick to the paint and bake onto it. You have to wash your car every day and it takes a lot of effort to get them off. Last year I had to spend a lot of time polishing the paint on three cars once they'd all killed themselves. I'd rather take my chances with a car cover for a month than spend every day trying to remove hundreds of dead insects, each etched into the paint.
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Last edited by KavKav; 20th May 2018 at 15:26.
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Something like this prior to washing should make it easier.
http://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/acata...ower-cat2.html
Magic Sponge-Autoglym ones are best! Can be abrasive on paintwork though.
Great for all sorts of things around the house too, spiders poo on your UPVC frames is a good un!
Give it a day
...& they’ll be gone
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Ceramic coating as part of a full detail, then they won't stick. I recommend Siramik
I might be missing something here, but are the dead mayflies not a result of you hitting them whilst driving?
We get them bad in the country lanes down here and it means I have to wear a full-face helmet when biking: the result of wearing an open-face lid is beyond disgusting. :-(
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Last edited by ralphy; 20th May 2018 at 16:35.
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Couldn’t you just spray the car with DEET?
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
They land on the cars and die and that's the problem.
I have ordered a couple of car covers that come with decent reviews so I'll see how that goes. It's going to rain today and tomorrow so I'll be cleaning and polishing both cars on Wednesday.
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