Dragon fly damage on a parked car

Why don't you try using TapTalk app and upload the photo from there. In the meantime can you describe the damage?

Bugs in general if not cleaned off a vehicle in a proper amount of time will break down. The proteins and acids will start to etch into clear-coat, much like bird droppings. Now if you're talking a dent or scratch, I could not imagine even the largest dragon fly causing a dent or a scratch.

If it were a bird? Yes, very possible to cause damage... especially if it's a large bird.
 
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Rtrick87 said:
Owner claims he witnessed it.
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What did he witness? Dragonflies on his hood? How many? What did they do?

I can 100% accept that he has seen dragonflies on his hood. But I have trouble believing that the damage was caused by them, and that the owner has actually witnessed that process.

I have had a car here that dragonflies loved to land and rest on. But I've never seen a single tiny scratch ever, that I could have attributed to them. The car was full off insect remnants, but not a single scratch, ever.

But then again, maybe these dragonflies had the rabies, or something :)
 
That looks like clear coat degradation. Highly doubt it was caused by dragon flies. He may have seen some on his car... Now, if they threw a party and a few hundred friends showed up and all died on the hood and the owner never cleaned them off? Then I revert to my original post, that bug / bug spatter will degrade clear-coat.

At this point it doesn't matter what caused it, if it won't polish out w a DA and some cleaner wax (HD Speed / McKee's 360, BF AIO), then that CC is done.
 
Rtrick87 said:
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He says this is what they do.


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WOW! Should be in a Farmers INS commercial.
So what have you done or tried? Did you clay, polish, what pads, products??

I’m guessing that if dealt with it can be removed, if not dealt with in a timely manner I could see cause for clear coat issues.





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I have seen this many times. They are mistaking the reflection for a pool of water.

Dragonflies will routinely dip into water in order to drink.

Crazy that it caused damage though.
 
PaulMys said:
I have seen this many times. They are mistaking the reflection for a pool of water.

Dragonflies will routinely dip into water in order to drink.

Crazy that it caused damage though.
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YUP!

We have D-Flys all summer, they loved the wife's black Subaru. Pretty sure it is (was) the reflection from the black that confuses them. No problems with 'white truck' and (now) a silverish Subaru.

That aside, those suckers eat their weight chowing down on fellow insects. As 'Martha' would say. "That's a good thing."

Bill
 
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