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Subject:Re: Van was egged, how to remove?
From:David Beierl
Date:Fri, 4 May 2012 22:41:12 -0400

At 10:00 PM 5/4/2012, JordanVw@aol.com wrote:
>enzymes in the eggyolk ate thru the clearcoat and down into the
>basecoat..  sitting for weeks baking in the hot sun  didn't help either.

Actually if enzymes really are the problem baking in the sun *might*
help instead of hurt.  Enzymes are proteins and if they get
overheated they change their physical shape and while chemically
unchanged no longer function as enzymes.

I also wasn't able to find any duckduckgo-accessible or wikipedia
mention of egg yolk enzymes.  That doesn't mean they don't
exist.   However there's a story from last August from some little
one-horse town called Bend OR which suggests that sulphur may be the
culprit, and gives some cleaning ideas as
well.
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110814/NEWS0107/108140319/1159&;nav_category=

Yours,
David