Hi everyone, I desperately need some suggestions!

So, I've had my SSM Fit Sport for just under a month. I'm totally in love with this car and I'm trying hard to take good care of her. Well, since bringing her home, I've discovered that a few robins like to perch on my side mirrors when the car is parked and crap all over the mirrors and down the doors! It is disgusting. I mean it is an obscene amount of bird crap. Not only does it make my brand new baby filthy, but I worry what the "stuff" is doing to the paint.

Unfortunately, I only have two options for parking - behind the house where the birds are (no garage) and on the street. Obviously, I'd like to avoid parking on the street, for safety reasons.

Does anyone have any ideas for keeping the birds off my cute little Fit? I've tried putting bags over my mirrors - they just crap on the bags and it still gets on the doors! It seems they like their reflections in both the mirrors and the windows. Ugh. I'm at the end of my rope! I can't even show off my cute new car because she's almost always covered in bird droppings! I'm ready to buy a BB gun...

 

bb/pellet gun FTW. Or you could get one of those ummm....car canopy...

 

Try buying and placing a fake owl on top of the car when parked, or you might try hanging it on your house (depending on how close you are to the street). As owls are predatory, most birds are scared of them. Using one definitely ran the pigeons off from a covered walkway!! LOL
'07 VBP Sport 5MT w/ minor appearance & comfort mods!!

 

As hilarious as that sounds, I may just have to consider this idea! I live in an apartment - I can just imagine my neighbors reactions to a big fake owl on my car.

 

Not sure my landlord would go for this, unfortunately. But thanks for the idea!

 

Buy a cat and familiarize it with ur Fit...

 

yeah i wondering if the FIT has some kind of attractant built into the paint for birds...i have almost hit soo many birds that swoop infront of me ..they like have a deathwish..
i find all kinds of poop on my FIT...a friend of mine hit a bird that wouldnt move out of road til it was too late and he had his SSM bout 3 days..

 

soo disgusting... a bird took the biggest dump on my headlamp... its not fun to clean. and I also drive a SSM.

 

It IS disgusting. I bought some Armor All External Wipes but I can only "spot clean" so many times a day. Besides, these aren't exactly spots! Foul.

 

Interesting - I've had some dive bombers too...maybe it has to do with the shape of the windshield? Maybe the Fit screws with birds' depth perception! Stupid birds. Argh.

 

like i tell everyone, non-edible birds need to be removed from the
planet.

 

sucks.....

yeah..buy a cat heh

 

The fake owl is a good idea. (get the one with the "bobble-head")

Or, drop the bucks on a car cover.

 

I had the same problem in my work place parking garage. The pigeons would not leave my car alone and actually they were walking all over my roof and pooping. I ended up placing a piece of Reynolds Wrap over
my antenna and shaped it like bird wings, large ones. They would not come anywhere near my Fit after that. It was funny because everyone kept asking me if I knew that someone had put a piece of Reynolds Wrap on my car because they know how I am about the Fit! I just took it off at the end of the day for the drive home and reused the next.

The pigeons went elsewhere and no poop since then

Cat

 

I had a bird problem on my roof a few years back. So annoying to me, and my family. So i decided id take my airsoft gun to them, they scattered, came back later, i shot them again and there nest(not killing them just scaring them) and they havent been back on my roof since.

Tyler

 

lol, birds will nest inside those things.

 

get a snake. it will eat the birds. haha and to stop the birds from pooping on your car, get a car cover. i have one and everytime i look at it, there is a new bird poop on it. soooo worth the money.

 

..... and where do you store the poop infested car cover? yuk..

 

i wait till its crusty and scrape it off. haha yea its gross but better than having it on your paint. a 100 or so bucks for a new cover is better than a few thousand dollars for a paint job.

 

yah, i suppose a cover is nice for when i need to park outdoors
at a airport or something for a few days straight.

my dd's are parked outside. every morning i check my cars for
bird crappage.