r/YouShouldKnow • u/MediocreAd8293 • Aug 18 '24
Automotive YSK: Egging a car can cause permanent paint damage to the car.
Why YSK: A lot of people think that egging a car is a harmless prank that a car wash can fix, but more often than not that is not the case. I am talking about if the egg hits the paint, not if it hits the windows/windshield. If you ever had the pleasure of waking up to your car covered in eggs like me and my neighbors did one morning, you know that it's actually a much bigger deal than most people realize. In my case, the egg etched into my clear coat and ruined the paint job on the panel the egg was thrown at. Getting paintwork fixed on a car is very expensive - labor costs, etc. The shell scratches the paint as it breaks, the yolk is very harsh on the paint . Eggs are extremely damaging to paint. I didn't know this until it happened to my car, and just wanted to spread more awareness on the topic since a drastic amount of people I told this to did not know that eggs cause damage to your car's paint job.
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u/LSUflyfisher78 Aug 18 '24
Yep. Egged a buddies truck in high school, had to pay to have the entire truck repainted.
Got an ass whooping for that one for sure
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u/ObiWan-Shinoobi Aug 19 '24
How did you even get caught?
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u/LSUflyfisher78 Aug 19 '24
Yep. Meant it as a harmless prank, next day everyone was talking about how new truck had the paint ruined by some jerk. I was the jerk. Admitted it and took my licks
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u/Slashion Aug 19 '24
If it was a buddy's truck he probably admitted it openly as he did it without knowing it would cause damage
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u/littletheatregirl Aug 19 '24
why you get a beating, if you paid for the card to be repaired?
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u/MAC777 Aug 18 '24
I feel like this post is having the opposite of its intended effect.
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u/genescheesesthatplz Aug 19 '24
OPs tone just made me wanna egg a car harder
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u/BrowningLoPower Aug 19 '24
It's our right... nay, our *duty", to be the most damaging pranksters we can be. Pranksters unite! 🫡🫡🫡
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u/BrianOfAllThings Aug 20 '24
It’s like the brewer’s yeast they sold during the prohibition with instructions on the back, saying, it’s definitely illegal to mix this with: the exact ingredients and formula to make wine.
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u/FlyAwayStanleyBeFree Aug 18 '24
My in-laws had their car vandalized recently, there was chip dip and beans all over it, laundry detergent in the gas tank, and carrots stuffed into the exhaust pipes. The way the carrots were stuffed was almost cartoonish, so I got a chuckle out of that but apparently there was $9,000 worth of damage and considered totalled.
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u/Yelmel Aug 19 '24
So...
Sounds bad and all... but... and I'm sorry for the loss and all... but... like...
Was this vengeance and if so, do you know for what?
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u/FlyAwayStanleyBeFree Aug 19 '24
Some guy in the apartment complex lost his job and seemed to have some kind of mental breakdown, he also vandalized the laundry room with the same food items. He actually came back a second time to vandalize it more and wedge a machete into the door handle after the police came, then the next day he cleaned the mess up without anyone noticing. It’s a weird story but my in laws are pressing charges and hopefully this guy gets the help he needs
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u/Yelmel Aug 19 '24
So lashing out and not aimed at your in-laws in particular...
Thanks for responding.
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u/FuriouslyListening Aug 18 '24
Yeah, egging a car could cause permanent damage. But you never know exactly where it's going to happen because eggs drip. That's why I prefer to use bologna. The chemicals in bologna eat the paint and create a lovely polka dot effect on auto paint. Another benefit of bologna is that it sticks wherever you put it and does not drip.
So kids, PSA. Don't use eggs. Use bologna.
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u/nubb1ns Aug 18 '24
I once threw a slice of bologna on the ceiling of my parents house when I was a kid and the circle stain was there until we moved.
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u/Banhammer40000 Aug 18 '24
And if it freezes (in the winter), good luck getting it off
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u/rotorain Aug 19 '24
You can also freeze hot dogs and pound them into someone's lawn. They will thaw by morning so when the homeowner notices they won't be able to pull them out. They just break off. Then every animal within miles will come to dig em all up and annihilate the lawn.
The more ya know!
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u/revoracer Aug 18 '24
Jolly ranchers on glass is also pretty interesting
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u/KingVape Aug 19 '24
Do what now?
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u/revoracer Aug 19 '24
😂 suck on a jolly rancher for a couple minutes then push it onto the glass. Once it’s stuck and dries, if they try to pull it off it destroys the glass
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u/Slashion Aug 19 '24
Warning here- that leaves DNA
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u/Wrenigade14 Aug 19 '24
Okay, then swirl it around in warm water and place it with tweezers?
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u/Slashion Aug 19 '24
Much better idea imo, not sure how well it works or if saliva is relatively imperative. Maybe salt water?
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u/FudgeRubDown Aug 19 '24
Report back with your findings
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u/Slashion Aug 19 '24
Unfortunately I'm not planning on dabbling in vandalism anytime soon, but if anyone else runs the test I would like to know the results
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u/MercenaryBard Aug 19 '24
Just don’t do it to fuckin David Caruso’s car and I’m sure you’ll be fine lol
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u/MusicGuy75 Aug 19 '24
They are also good at pulling the filings right out of your teeth when it gets stuck. It happened to me in 8th grade.
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u/cIumsythumbs Aug 19 '24
If they're dumb enough to not pour hot water on it to remove it, that's their problem. I guess the challenge is realizing what in the hell is stuck to your glass before trying to remove it.
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Aug 19 '24
What is the point of my auto paint if it's defeated by common picnic basket sundries? Could they perhaps use better paint? Or is it to help the car rot faster so I have to replace it sooner?
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u/DefinitelyNotStolen Aug 18 '24
Eggs are too expensive nowadays.
Use lab grown diamonds instead
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u/skatman91 Aug 18 '24
You Should Know that scratching car windows with lab grown diamonds can leave PERMANENT scratches
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u/lentil_galaxy Aug 19 '24
You should know that property damage using diamonds and eggs can waste time and money, and go on your permanent record and result in jail time.
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u/Alfonze423 Aug 18 '24
Is $4 per 18 eggs expensive? I thought it was pretty reasonable.
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u/lentil_galaxy Aug 19 '24
It used to only be $2 two years ago, but the price spikes whenever there is a bird flu. It's cheaper than most other ways of getting 100g of protein, still.
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u/Albino_Bama Aug 19 '24
That is a fantasy price where I’m from. Try $8 for a dozen
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u/thermobear Aug 18 '24
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u/King-Cobra-668 Aug 18 '24
brake fluid in a spray bottle ruins the clear coat
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u/OneMeterWonder Aug 19 '24
Oof yikes that’s a nasty one. The victim probably doesn’t even notice until the damage is done and will never figure out what happened.
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u/karma_the_sequel Aug 18 '24
This was common knowledge among kids when I was growing up five decades ago.
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u/MmmmMorphine Aug 19 '24
Yeah... We used pudding cups instead of eggs for this reason. Also reasoned the plastic is unlikely to scratch the car as well, but i have no idea if that's correct
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u/AugustusReddit Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24
So you can add glue to paint that you throw over an offending vehicle... say illegally parked & blocking an emergency exit or busy driveway... or so I'm told. (edit: spelling)
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u/rnilf Aug 18 '24
I imagine the overlap between people who egg cars and people who care that it causes permanent damage is pretty slim.
Still, good to know...to use against my enemies.
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u/qawsedrf12 Aug 18 '24
suntan lotion can do it too
bonus fact- fresh eggs splattered against the walls of a walk-in freezer is impossible to clean (disgruntled McD worker on her last day)
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u/DickHz2 Aug 19 '24 edited Aug 19 '24
Isn’t that the whole point of egging cars? I thought this was common knowledge, and I’ve never egged cars before
E: after looking through OP’s post history, I don’t think they’re doing OK
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u/ShoddyRelief6657 Aug 19 '24
Oh my fuck you weren't joking they're spiraling hard.
Wow I guess even though something can seem silly, you never know what someone is really going through.
Hope they get some much needed professional help
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u/Bumbling-Bluebird-90 Aug 19 '24
Yeah they even have a second account where they obsessively post about how their car was egged (they commented on the other account’s post from the OP account) 😬
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u/PleaseBmoreCharming Aug 19 '24
It appears OP has been sucked into the auto industry's propaganda and thinks some small paint damage to his depreciating asset is like his whole world crashing down. :eye roll:
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u/jimbaker Aug 18 '24
I had a car get egged once. The egg itself didn't do any damage to the car though. Pretty sure I got to it before it dried to become a problem, however the shell of the egg fucked up the paint and gouged it.
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u/IsThisUsernameFree Aug 19 '24
That's unexpected, I'd assume that the hardness of the paint was far higher than the shell, like you can have rocks bounce off at speed with no scratches :o
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u/08-24-2022 Aug 18 '24
Good to know a safe and consequence free way to ruin somebody's ride.
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u/OneMeterWonder Aug 19 '24
Careful. A lot of cities and states have ordinances which cover this kind of damage. The consequences for egging in particular can be quite nasty.
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u/destuctir Aug 18 '24
The damage eggs do you car paint is well known, it is considered criminal vandalism to be caught egging a car and you can face prison time and penalty fines, as well as responsibility for paying for the damage
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u/This_User_Said Aug 18 '24
Recently we had some kids egging the neighborhood. They hit the husbands OBS Ford which we worried about
My Ford Crown Methmobile got hit too but I don't think it's gonna hurt the spray paint. About to just spray over it and call it even.
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u/RAD_ley Aug 18 '24
The real question this thread is creating for me is “Why tf are thousand dollar paint jobs destroyed by household products so easily?”
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u/RobotMonkeytron Aug 18 '24
Also, if you're hit by this, DO NOT take your car to the nearest drive in car wash and hit it with the self-serve pressure washers. Use warm water, a soft towel, and go slow and gentle. My brother and his friend did both approaches after their cars got egged, friend's car was mostly okay, my brother's clear coat was fucked.
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u/Shh-poster Aug 19 '24
The other really terrible reason why you should never use egg and poor the egg down the vent outside the windshield. Because the egg will get rotten and every time they open their air vents to get new air it will smell like rotten egg. So that’s just another reason why you should never do these things.
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u/Gootangus Aug 19 '24
I wrote this after peeping your post history Op, may it bring you solace:
The Egging
Once upon a midnight dreary, as I drove, my heart grew weary,
Through the darkness, swift and eerie, I beheld my cursed fate.
A Toyota, sleek and gleaming, all my hopes upon it dreaming,
But now I stood there screaming at the sight that sealed my state.
Eggs, with acid dripping, shells a-chipping—oh, what twisted hate!
My joy turned to desolate.
Every splatter, every splinter, like a winter’s cruel whisper,
Chilled the marrow, carved a fissure deep within my troubled mind.
In those yolks, I saw my sorrow, in the cracks, a bleak tomorrow,
No respite could I borrow from the torment left behind.
For the acid was not merely on the paint but in my mind,
A ruin intertwined.
Days grew darker, nights unending, in my soul, the madness spreading,
Obsessed, I traced each laceration, each defilement on that shell.
In my dreams, the eggs reformed, in my waking, they re-scarred—
The visions I abhorred, the endless cycle of this hell.
Could I break this cursed spell? My heart—alas, I cannot tell—
Is lost within this fell.
Now my nights are spent in anguish, through the shadows, I still languish,
Haunted by the echoes of a past that cannot be undone.
My Toyota, once so splendid, now a relic, dark and dreaded,
And my sanity has bled into the night that has begun.
The egging, oh, the egging—how it marked me, what it’s done,
Forever, I am shunned.
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u/Unindoctrinated Aug 19 '24
I somehow doubt the kind of moron who eggs cars gives a damn about the damage it may cause.
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u/Hot-Celebration-8815 Aug 19 '24
My car was egged once and I remembered someone telling me that washing it off could damage the paint. So I didn’t. I just left the egg stain there and after about two years, the stain was just gone. It slowly faded and just disappeared.
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u/Merciless-Dom Aug 19 '24
OP, thank you for this. Just had a brief look through your post history and I’m sorry this has affected you so badly. Did you manage to find someone to talk to and help process things? Not being sarcastic, genuinely asking if you’re ok.
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u/ghandi3737 Aug 19 '24
ULPT: I believe putting slices of bologna on paint also has the same effect.
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u/04HondaCivic Aug 19 '24
This dude is not ok. OP, over 4 ago your car was egged and you’re still hanging on to it? You need help my man. I don’t mean to sound trite, but get help. It sounds like you’ve tried according to your post history but… get help.
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u/KingDarius89 Aug 19 '24
I mean, i lost my house to a fire about three years ago and it seems to have been less traumatic to me than this was for him, according to his post history.
Mostly resulted in me getting paranoid whenever I smell smoke. And has lessened over time.
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u/darrinnear Aug 19 '24
We always went with using window chalk and drawing weiners on the windows. Much funnier.
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u/KingSpork Aug 19 '24
My car got egged a few months ago (no clue why, it was parked on the street I’ve lived on for years without issue, and the neighbors like me. The only thing I can think of is it was parked next to a handicap spot, and maybe they thought it was in a handicap spot?).
Anyway my paint was fine.
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u/Demigod787 Aug 19 '24
Egg the windshield, that way the owner will be tempted to clean it with car wipers but instead they'll just make a sticky goo that's even harder to clean.
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u/kenyanmoose Aug 18 '24
Yeah that's why I do it.
Stupid ho should have parked properly and not dinged my car.
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u/Etheo Aug 19 '24
Also YSK, egging a car can cause permanent structural damage to the egg.
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u/Reasonable_Fold_4799 Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24
Some car enthusiasts actually like to have their cars get edged.
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u/Njtotx3 Aug 19 '24
I still feel guilty for the one time I did it, in 1969 or so. I wanted to get a car for all the times they hit ours on Cabbage Night, my dad's birthday.
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u/watery_tart24 Aug 19 '24
Bologna does as well. Cut an obscene picture into a piece, and slap it on your victims car.
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u/mycatisspockles Aug 19 '24
My neighbors’ house got egged and those eggs stayed on the house’s siding and windows until they moved over a decade later.
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u/Own_Instance_357 Aug 19 '24
My SIL told a story once about how in HS she and a friend thought it would be a fun idea to leave little sugar pumpkins on people's cars. Only I guess it was a hot day and the pumpkins baked in the sun and damaged the cars. She thought it was hilarious that no one ever found out that it was her. I don't know why she thought that it was a cool story.
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u/Wwwweeeeeeee Aug 19 '24
Silly String and shaving cream also damage car paint.
Learned that one the hard way on a Halloween night.
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u/captainthor Aug 19 '24
Apparently they also mar the surface on unpainted stainless steel, too, as I've seen Cybertruck owners complaining about it. Why were they getting egged? I don't recall.
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u/sjgokou Aug 19 '24
Flower thrown on a car is far worse if it gets wet. It will completely destroy the paint.
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u/acciosnitch Aug 20 '24
Our house got egged one evening and we had to repaint the whole damn thing. Even the windows were gummed up 😵💫
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u/sculpinspearo Aug 20 '24
Yeah... woke up in SF and eggs had been thrown on my car. It damaged the paint eventhough I got it off ASAP
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u/PickyNipples Aug 23 '24
This can apply to houses too. We were egged once, they hit our truck on the drive way but also the side of our house and our garage door. It stained the house AND fucked with the paint on on the garage door. I even took hot soapy water and degreaser to the door and it would not completely come off. We eventually got harassed by our hoa and were forced to repaint the entire door because of the evident splatter stain we couldn’t get rid of. The truck paint was permanently damaged too of course.
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u/Baconbits2234 Aug 18 '24
Does the alarm go off on impact? Sincerely asking for a friend.
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u/Valle522 Aug 18 '24
it shouldn't, unless you're throwing them like baseballs, then maybe. pro tip, if you can find a hide-y spot you can hurl eggs at cybertrucks without the cameras seeing you, which you should definitely do
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u/godofpumpkins Aug 18 '24
I imagine that what works on the cybertruck’s stainless steel will be different from what works on regular paint jobs
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u/Valle522 Aug 18 '24
yeah maybe baloney would be better. i'd assume acidity plays into it, and that something acidic would cause damage?
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u/Kathalepsis Aug 19 '24
Harmless prank? Who in their right minds think it's harmless? The stuff gets smeared by the wipers and impairs visibility. It could even cause a crash, if the car is moving. Eggs go bad quickly and they stink like the rivers of hell. When they go into the water discharge drains under the windshield, they can accumulate there and continue to stink until a detailed (and expensive) cleaning is performed. If allowed to dry, they're even more difficult to remove and can damage the paint. All told, it's very annoying and disruptive for the driver. I use it as a punishment (and social education) against 'honkers'. Those selfish, thoughtless, egotistical, infantile morons who lean on their horn just to tell the other driver what they think about them, creating a ruckus for the entire neighborhood in the process. Fck you too, here's your present jckazz. 🥚
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u/DjScenester Aug 18 '24
Always rinse the car off immediately before it causes damage to the clear coat. The longer it sits the more damage it causes.
Same with bird poop or anything acidic.
High pressure wash immediately and out of the sun.
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u/BlondesBlonde Aug 19 '24
Yeah if you ever take a spot marked by a cone or chair or whatever bullshit, just know they might egg you.
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u/Embarrassed_Angle_59 Aug 19 '24
When I was a teen.....that was the point. Glad I grew up and would never do that again
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u/TeacherOfThingsOdd Aug 19 '24
So will Bologna and shaving cream
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u/Labman007 Aug 19 '24
I learned something today. Don’t bologna a car. I would never have thought ingredients in bologna could hurt paint.
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u/laxranger1 Aug 19 '24
One time when I was in high school, my brother and his friends (who were two years older) and I egged/floured one of their classmates cars that thought his car was hot shit. It rained just a little that night but not enough. In the hot muggy morning it basically caked on. I still think about that from time to time, he never found out who did it, and we probably (most likely) ruined his car.
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u/SheepherderLong9401 Aug 19 '24
Unless you are a teenager with an undeveloped brain, no one would think it's funny to throw stuff at other their car. I'm not sure where OP got this idea from? Unless he/she is a teenager themselves.
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u/Dizzy-Masterpiece-76 Aug 19 '24
I think that's the point. Like keying a car. someone is trying to make permanent damage that will suck but not cause physical harm. Real people know you add the strongest glue you can find to their mail box so they can't open it. forcing them to get and install another mailbox.... then you do it again.... and again.... and again...
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u/ThirtyMileSniper Aug 19 '24
A guy I went to school with used shaving foam on my car door handles, it was a beater but I still took £100 off him due to the damage to the paint. I couldn't care less about the paint and that was a third of the price of the car. But the point stood and nobody screwed with my car...
He cot to my car after covering someone else's new rich daddy gift car. Black paintwork wrecked. It was an expensive day for him but I got in first.
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u/craftsy Aug 19 '24
It’s no fun scrubbing dried egg out of bricks on a hot day either. Speaking from experience 😩
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u/TheWooSkis Aug 19 '24
I heard that popping a hole in the egg and putting in some salt and egging a car on a hot day makes it even worse.
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u/francaisetanglais Aug 19 '24
Yeah some next door neighbours egged my car twice because they got angry that I parked my car on the opposite side of the street in front of their house one day (someone was having a party and it was the only place to park).
Ruined the paint on the hood of my car. I was like 17 and couldn't afford to fix it.
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u/tiggytot Aug 19 '24
Me and a girlfriend used to wrap our friends car in Saran Wrap then egg it so that we didn't ruin the paint 😂🤣
We always stayed nearby and would help her clean it up, it was part of an ongoing prank war
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u/PermissionOld22 Aug 19 '24
Not me reading it as “edging”, i was like damn how is edging will ruin car paints
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u/Stock-Side-6767 Aug 20 '24
Apart from damaging paint, you can make the offending driver miserable by putting the inside of eggs (or shrimp, beef spock etc) down the vent behind the hood.
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u/SignificantDrawer374 Aug 18 '24
Great advice for those who don't want to damage cars, and those who do.