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Old 08-30-2007 | 08:15 AM
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Nope, no trees nearby.
Old 08-30-2007 | 08:18 AM
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LOL next time you see a bird you should take a ____ on it... hahahah

But yea... the yellow dot thing is happening to me 2...
Old 08-30-2007 | 08:26 AM
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it happens to me too...in random places not any place specific.
Old 08-30-2007 | 08:36 AM
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Hmmm, we must solve this mystery. I'll write to my congressman.
Old 08-30-2007 | 09:00 AM
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The worst is when im driving from Orange County to San Diego for a scion car show and im leading the group on the 5 fwy and i get there and my front is covered in bugs. Its so annoying
Old 08-30-2007 | 09:35 AM
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lol i get them too. there was a study that i read somewhere, on how birds tend to poop on clean cars and/or light colored cars a lot more. so far it seems to be true, i tried not cleaning my car for 2 weeks, and no spots or bird crap. then yesterday, cleaned the car, and there they were.
Old 08-30-2007 | 09:52 AM
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rofl got the same problem yellow dots!especially on the c/f hoof sunroof and always on the bumper...either im goinf with the airplane myth or the pollen from trees...
Old 08-30-2007 | 12:19 PM
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Those feather heads are jealous... They too small to drive our cars.
Old 08-30-2007 | 02:57 PM
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Yellow spots have shown up on my car too (I'm from NE Ohio). No idea what causes it, though they havent shown up since I have moved and now have my car in a garage spot.

My vote--aliens.

And birds are attracted to shiny objects, but hate mirrors. The fun experiment would to put a mirror face up on your driveway on a bright day, and see if it garners bird crap
Old 08-30-2007 | 03:37 PM
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I'm in Cali by the Sacramento International Airport and I have those damn yellow drops too! Conspiracy I tell ya!
Old 08-30-2007 | 03:49 PM
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The strange thing about the bird poop is that my girlfriend and I both have TC's......and we both park right next to each other in our driveway.....I have a bsp tc and hardly ever get bird poop...she has a azure pearl tc and the birds bombard her car with poop....Crazy.....
Old 08-30-2007 | 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by sillieidiot
lol i get them too. there was a study that i read somewhere, on how birds tend to poop on clean cars and/or light colored cars a lot more. so far it seems to be true, i tried not cleaning my car for 2 weeks, and no spots or bird crap. then yesterday, cleaned the car, and there they were.
Wish i could find that study, but that might explain it.
Old 08-30-2007 | 04:44 PM
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I thought those yellow spots was tree sap?

I get some from time to time. I park under a lot of trees. I park under a tree a work, at movie theater, supermarket, etc.
Old 08-30-2007 | 09:30 PM
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i'm in the east coast in SC and i get the little yellow spots as well. not many but they are there every now and then. I'm about 25 miles from the airport. i very rarely see airplanes flying overhead unless they are from Shaw Air Force Base and in that case they are fighter jets
Old 08-30-2007 | 09:49 PM
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I have yet to have my car fall victim to bird shiiit, With the quality of the paint though if a bird did ____ on it I wouldn;t be suprised if it ate the paint instantly lol.
Old 08-31-2007 | 12:49 AM
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^ you're lucky. i hate when one hits you on the windshield when you're driving. sometimes it can scare you lol
Old 08-31-2007 | 01:24 AM
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I'm convinced Californian birds/insects conspire against our cars.
Old 08-31-2007 | 01:55 AM
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I'm fairly sure it's tree sap. I've had a tree fling some sap at me while I was getting in my car; with wind causing the tree to sway, the backlash can fling a bit of sap pretty far.

Also a Californian.
Old 08-31-2007 | 02:01 AM
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But sap is sticky. I've had tree sap too and it's pretty darn hard to get off after it dries. It becomes hard and forms a raised shape. However, the mysterious yellow dots are brighter in color and flat on the surface. They also come off easily. I am inclined to go with the aircraft theory.
Old 09-03-2007 | 05:46 PM
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same here... I parked under this tree for shade and got shizzzzle allll over my car, I'm never parking there again


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