How to remove insects and organic dirt from the bodywork?

Artur Owczarek

Brand Product Manager Moje AutoHe has been involved in the automotive industry for years. He is passionate about cars and detailing. On his blog, he shares his knowledge and experience, offering tips on how to effectively care for your car and extend its life.

Warmer periods of the year are also a time for drivers to "fight" against removing dried insects and bird droppings from the body surface. If the level of irritation reaches its peak due to the difficulties in removing them effectively, we will tell you how to do it. For this purpose, all you need is a specialized agent. Check out how to effectively remove all organic dirt from your car!

Winter is a more troublesome time of year for our car's paint than summer. However, it should be remembered that in summer there are also external factors that have a negative impact on the car's bodywork. Some of the most troublesome are insects and organic dirt, such as bird droppings. Decaying insect remains can cause microscopic damage to the paint. This can lead to small rust spots. Bird droppings combined with the high temperatures to which our car heats up in summer are also a bad combination. Their residues on the varnish react first with the external colorless varnish. Then with the base coat, over time leaving unpleasant-looking rusty marks or peeling paint.

Why is it worth using a specialized agent to remove insects or bird excrement?

Very often we damage the paint of our cars ourselves. We try to remove insect remains or bird excrement by force, using a rough sponge or too much water pressure from a car washer. A much better way is to use a special preparation for removing insect traces. Thanks to the content of appropriate ingredients, it dissolves organic substances and significantly helps us remove them without causing damage.

So how to remove this type of organic dirt?

We will show you this using an example of the product: My Car "Insects". This preparation easily removes insects and organic dirt from glass surfaces, as well as painted, rubber and plastic elements.

Preparation for removing insects from the bodywork

(photo: My Car)

STEP 1: Shake the container.

This is an important step at the very beginning of our washing. Performing this basic action, which is often overlooked by users, will do a lot of good. This ensures that the active ingredients contained in the preparation will be evenly distributed throughout the entire volume of the preparation.

STEP 2: Apply the preparation to the surface to be cleaned.

First of all, we must remember that the surface we are cleaning is not hot. This may result in rapid evaporation of the aqueous part of the preparation, and the active substances will remain on the surface, causing local damage. To lower the temperature of the bodywork, we can rinse the car with a stream of running water and apply the preparation to the wet bodywork. Then I apply the preparation to the dirty part of the bodywork.

STEP 3: Wait about 1 minute.

We cannot allow the preparation to dry on the bodywork, as it may damage the paint.

STEP 4: Rinse the surface with water.

We try to thoroughly rinse the entire body of the preparation so that the residue does not cause damage.

STEP 5: Clean the surface with a cloth.

Wipe the washed and rinsed bodywork dry with a cloth to remove any residue. A way to help us keep the body clean for a longer time is to wax it after washing it thoroughly. It certainly won't protect us from insects, but it will reduce their number and make the subsequent washing process easier.

Thanks to a specially developed formula, the preparation combines effectiveness and speed of action with safety in contact with car paint. It does not leave greasy stains and gives shine to cleaned surfaces.