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My ride was egged!!!

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:mad: Went outside around noon and found out my sc had been egged! Stupid teenagers have too much time on their hands. I went to get it washed right away. Came bac home and saw that it was still noticeable on my driver door! I went on line and I followed some instructions and wiped it with vinegar. Still didn't come off! Any advice? Damn I'm pissed!!!:mad:
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This happened to me last year. I just took it to one of those self-service car wash places with the high power hoses. It took a while but eventually it all came off.
3M bug and tar remover, took it off on mine.
The best part is im 28 now but happened last year, The following week this happened they were going around doing it again. I then followed them at a distance and found were the driver lived, I bought 10 cartons of eggs and covered his car with them on a school night and wrote "egg my car again a**hole" and left. I drove by the school in the morning on my way to work, no car, went by his house, I saw him, a cop, and his mom outside, the cop and his mom were laughing as he was scrubbing his car. Guess what, its never happened since.
:lol: That's freakin classic! I wish I could do the same. That's the only way they learn. But yeah thanks for the suggestions I'm gonna try that 3m bug and tar remover, hopefully it works. Man, I wish I knew who it was tho! The dude at the car wash told me there had been a lot of cars going in for a wash because they were egged. At least I know someone doesn't have something personal against me. Oh well, karma's a bitch
3M bug and tar remover, took it off on mine.
The best part is im 28 now but happened last year, The following week this happened they were going around doing it again. I then followed them at a distance and found were the driver lived, I bought 10 cartons of eggs and covered his car with them on a school night and wrote "egg my car again a**hole" and left. I drove by the school in the morning on my way to work, no car, went by his house, I saw him, a cop, and his mom outside, the cop and his mom were laughing as he was scrubbing his car. Guess what, its never happened since.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! *snort* Hahahahahahahahah!!!!
:lol: That's freakin classic! I wish I could do the same. That's the only way they learn. But yeah thanks for the suggestions I'm gonna try that 3m bug and tar remover, hopefully it works. Man, I wish I knew who it was tho! The dude at the car wash told me there had been a lot of cars going in for a wash because they were egged. At least I know someone doesn't have something personal against me. Oh well, karma's a bitch
sure hope it was not the dude at the car wash drumming up business ! LOL ;-)
my accord was egged a while back, bug and tar remover FTW
Mothers, Maguires or Griot's Garage CLAY BAR.

Clay Bar works like magic to remove all sorts of crap from the clear coat.
Follow up with a good waxing.

Clay bar also works great on windshields and paint overspray.
The following week this happened they were going around doing it again. I then followed them at a distance and found were the driver lived. I bought 10 cartons of eggs and covered his car with them on a school night and wrote "egg my car again a**hole" and left. I drove by the school in the morning on my way to work, no car, went by his house, I saw him, a cop, and his mom outside, the cop and his mom were laughing as he was scrubbing his car. Guess what, it's never happened since.
Aaaaaahhhhhh youth-----brings back memories---and no, I would never have done something like that with eggs, toilet paper, cherry bombs or such things:D
Ironically, the total amount of common sense in a group of teen boys seems to be inversely proportionate to the group size. I don't think that there are any truly bad teenagers - just some who have undernourished empathy. For some, once they are seriously victimized, they are more sensitive to the results of their practical "jokes". For others, you need to treat them like eggs- separate and selectively whip or beat them.

This thread could be instructive for people who don't believe in frequently waxing their vehicles. Egg, road tar, tree sap and bird cr*p come off a well-waxed surface much easier than off clean paint.

I don't believe in using any kind of abrasive on a sound paint coat, not even claybar. It's too easy to pick up unwanted grit in the process and scratch the clearcoat. The best solvent known is water, the ideal cleaner is a surfactant. Whenever possible you want to dissolve residue on a paint finish, not abrade it off.

Since egg is mainly protein and fat, an enzyme based cleaner such as found in laundry detergent would work, as would a good brand of automatic dishwasher detergent . I wouldn't suggest using either of these normally for cleaning a vehicle, because it will strip off wax, but they are appropriate in this case. Simple Green or Lemon Joy would eventually remove egg, but these will take much longer.

Keep the vehicle out of direct sunlight so the egg doesn't cook onto the surface. A nice long soak would be great at softening the egg to assist removal, but beware; repeated wetting and drying will make the egg tougher. Once it's wet keep it wet. Beware of using high pressure - raw egg is very sticky and may have collected grit and abrasive dirt while it was drying. High pressure water would drive these into the clearcoat.

One panel at a time, get the panel thoroughly wetted using a good grade of auto soap/detergent and then flood the area with water.

Mix a tablespoon of laundry detergent or a teaspoon of dishwasher detergent in one gallon of the hottest water your hands can stand. (I suggest wearing rubber gloves). Have a large open pore auto wash sponge and some clean microfiber small towels ready.

Apply the wet sponge directly to the area that has egg, hold it in place for 30 seconds to s minutes, and then start gently working the detergent into the egg in a spiral motion, using light pressure. Wring out and rewet the sponge frequently. Once the surface appears clean, BLOT it with a microfiber towel, the towel will stick to residual egg. If it sticks, flood the area with clean water, go back to using the sponge. Repeat the entire process as needed.

When the panel is completely clean, wash it thoroughly and apply paste wax to paint, formula 303 to any plastic panels.
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Aaaaaahhhhhh youth-----brings back memories---and no, I would never have done something like that with eggs, toilet paper, cherry bombs or such things:D
Nope, me either. We just enjoyed completely wrapping a car in saran wrap, then covering with a nice layer of flour, water and toilet paper, then another layer of saran wrap. Saran wrap is a pain enough to get off, but throwing the gooey, gluey mess in between the 2 layers just added to the fun. Never caused any damage, just annoyance. :)
The best thing to get egg off of a car is the blood an brains of the jerk that put it there in the first place.
I just love vigilante style justice!!!:D:D I think of all the mischief I did when I was young.....man am I sorry to alot of people:oops:.... I'll bet it really was a good lesson to him. I'll bet he is very un-likely to be a repeat offender.
I don't recommend Vigilante justice, unless someone really deserved it and you're not going to do any harm to them personally.:D

There was a kid who lived down the street from us who had a silver blazer that was his Dad's car. One night Iwoke up at 1AM and looked out my window cause I thought I heard glass shattering. Looked at my Jimmy, and it looked like it had wings out the back? (really groggy, couldn't see cause i just woke up)

Went down to the car, the whole rear window was smashed out, nothing was stolen though, looked across the street, smashed out rear window too. Neighbor: Smashed out rear window. Found out later it was all the way down THE ENTIRE STREET, no one's front, or side windows, just the rear ones.:confused: Luckily since i was awake, I called the cops. When the cop arrived and pulled in behind my poor car, he came up and started asking questions, if I saw anyone, etc... I told him I saw a silver blazer with tires that were way wider than the body and stickers all over the windows drive by really fast all night. Sure enough as the cop was sitting there writing stuff down on the hood of the car, the silver blazer drives by really fast and you can hear more glass shattering down the road, the cop immidiately jumped in and said he'd be right back. He came back in a bit and said he couldn't find them and that the whole department was running around looking for them.

The next day when everyone figured out their cars were damaged, it was like a parade of people wandering down the street looking at everything. Only one car on the entire road with it's window still in tact. They hit cars in people's dirveways, on side roadways, and outside on the street. Everyone went to go look at it and there were some air rifles in the back seat. Stickers all over the window, done deal. That was the guy. Instead of calling the police like some of me and my neighbors should do, they weren't thinking very lawfully, and just went to find some heavy stuff to pelt the car with, some people got eggs, rocks, baseball bats, whatever. I didn't manage to get a hit in on the stupid kid's car, but I should've. Then when the kid called the police later that his car had been hit the next day, a couple of us walked by and said, holy crap! Whoever did this must've been really pissed at you! He only just broke our windows out, that sucks man.

Later on, whoever's insurance didn't cover their windows, got the police to go collect from the kid who everyone knew did it.

I can't immagine how much about 60 rear windows would cost you, but I'm sure that kids dad was not happy.

The same instance started happening again to whoever would park in front of the kid's house, your car would get egged, etc... went as far as to smash in the front window of some guy's TJ cruiser as well. I believe the kid is just residing in jail now because no one's seen him.
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I don't recommend Vigilante justice, unless someone really deserved it and you're not going to do any harm to them personally.:D

There was a kid who lived down the street from us who had a silver blazer that was his Dad's car. One night Iwoke up at 1AM and looked out my window cause I thought I heard glass shattering. Looked at my Jimmy, and it looked like it had wings out the back? (really groggy, couldn't see cause i just woke up)

Went down to the car, the whole rear window was smashed out, nothing was stolen though, looked across the street, smashed out rear window too. Neighbor: Smashed out rear window. Found out later it was all the way down THE ENTIRE STREET, no one's front, or side windows, just the rear ones.:confused: Luckily since i was awake, I called the cops. When the cop arrived and pulled in behind my poor car, he came up and started asking questions, if I saw anyone, etc... I told him I saw a silver blazer with tires that were way wider than the body and stickers all over the windows drive by really fast all night. Sure enough as the cop was sitting there writing stuff down on the hood of the car, the silver blazer drives by really fast and you can hear more glass shattering down the road, the cop immidiately jumped in and said he'd be right back. He came back in a bit and said he couldn't find them and that the whole department was running around looking for them.

The next day when everyone figured out their cars were damaged, it was like a parade of people wandering down the street looking at everything. Only one car on the entire road with it's window still in tact. They hit cars in people's dirveways, on side roadways, and outside on the street. Everyone went to go look at it and there were some air rifles in the back seat. Stickers all over the window, done deal. That was the guy. Instead of calling the police like some of me and my neighbors should do, they weren't thinking very lawfully, and just went to find some heavy stuff to pelt the car with, some people got eggs, rocks, baseball bats, whatever. I didn't manage to get a hit in on the stupid kid's car, but I should've. Then when the kid called the police later that his car had been hit the next day, a couple of us walked by and said, holy crap! Whoever did this must've been really pissed at you! He only just broke our windows out, that sucks man.

Later on, whoever's insurance didn't cover their windows, got the police to go collect from the kid who everyone knew did it.

I can't immagine how much about 60 rear windows would cost you, but I'm sure that kids dad was not happy.

The same instance started happening again to whoever would park in front of the kid's house, your car would get egged, etc... went as far as to smash in the front window of some guy's TJ cruiser as well. I believe the kid is just residing in jail now because no one's seen him.
a classic episode of COPS! :lol:
There is a difference between mischeif and vandalism...I am sixteen and I do my share of wrappings and other harmless pranks but I dont go around doing stuff that can actually harm peoples possesions. There comes a point that you just have to grow up. However vigilante justice sounds like my kind of reaction if anyone f-ed with my beloved E.
20 years ago some chowderhead though it would be cool to cut open a few of those Cyalume chemical lightsticks (you know-the snap the capsule and it glows green like electric snot) and write all over my white Pontiac Grand Prix.

Could have been a harmless-if messy to clean prank- on another car. On mine- which I had repainted with hardened enamel- the lightstick liquid lifted the paint just like brake fluid. Ruined the paint on the entire car.

I found out who the kids were that did it- but their parents wouldn't pay up because the kids had done it to THEIR crs with no ill effects and I didn't feel like filing a suit.
I thought an interesting one was that someone had stuck feminine pads all over my parent's cars a while ago. They all fell off when sprayed with a hose, with no damage. I find that to be a very expensive prank... for nothing.
I thought an interesting one was that someone had stuck feminine pads all over my parent's cars a while ago. They all fell off when sprayed with a hose, with no damage. I find that to be a very expensive prank... for nothing.
Oh but that is just funny to me!!! :lol: I guess I still have a teenager's sense of humor. :rolleyes:
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