Vandals - revisited
Discussion
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a thread about vandals putting circly scratches on my car.
Well it's happened again, and you know what?? Not vandals after all, but CATS.
There are scratches on one of the wings, scratches on the roof and a couple on the engine cover. The scratches are in sets of 4 or 5, each scratch about 7 mm parallel to the others.
Seems cats like the Noble, try to jump up onto the front wing, scrabble to get grip, over the roof and curl up on the engine cover (probably cos it's warm). Shiny polished plastic means they have to use their claws. Caught one of them up there - cue more scratches when trying to get away sharpish...
Now this doesn't happen to my mate's TVR. Perhaps I need a louder exhaust to scare them away????
At least it wasn't jealous scum, eh???
Well it's happened again, and you know what?? Not vandals after all, but CATS.
There are scratches on one of the wings, scratches on the roof and a couple on the engine cover. The scratches are in sets of 4 or 5, each scratch about 7 mm parallel to the others.
Seems cats like the Noble, try to jump up onto the front wing, scrabble to get grip, over the roof and curl up on the engine cover (probably cos it's warm). Shiny polished plastic means they have to use their claws. Caught one of them up there - cue more scratches when trying to get away sharpish...
Now this doesn't happen to my mate's TVR. Perhaps I need a louder exhaust to scare them away????
At least it wasn't jealous scum, eh???
Good (but still bad) news.
There are many "cat away" granules that you can get - sprinkle them around where you leave the car and it'll keep them away - check out your local garden centre.
There is also a "fake" cat that's just a big black outline with shiny glass eyes that's meant to keep them away as well.
You are welcome to borrow my Swizol scratch remover paste if you want to - let me know.
J
There are many "cat away" granules that you can get - sprinkle them around where you leave the car and it'll keep them away - check out your local garden centre.
There is also a "fake" cat that's just a big black outline with shiny glass eyes that's meant to keep them away as well.
You are welcome to borrow my Swizol scratch remover paste if you want to - let me know.
J
This doesn't work, either for cats or birds, cos I had one in my garden. Eventually got nicked by magpies
joust said:
There is also a "fake" cat that's just a big black outline with shiny glass eyes that's meant to keep them away as well.
My TVR also got scratched by an effing great cat - managed to gouge a few scratches into the rear wing just next to the boot (one of them 1mm deep!
) It jumped up, couldn't get a grip, scrabbled around & fell off, scratching it in the process
declaw the 
ers, cover them in polish and let THEM sort the damage out 
How the hell did they lift that away - it must weight a pound or so.
CraigAlsop said:This doesn't work, either for cats or birds, cos I had one in my garden. Eventually got nicked by magpies
joust said:
There is also a "fake" cat that's just a big black outline with shiny glass eyes that's meant to keep them away as well.
There are some rather cool ideas on here www.tmac.clara.co.uk/urgring/faqcats1.htm - the best one has to be the water spray coupled with a PIR sensor
J
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