Woke up to my car covered in dust/muck?

[CYMR0]

Black car in south Wales - looks like it's been off-roading.

[ShawCrossShark]

StottyZr said:

Earlsheaton Mine was too, I thought it was odd.

Whereabouts? Best mate just sold his house and moved in with me after a split, he lived on Becks Court at the bottom of the hill

[Geekman]

Had this yesterday, it contrasts rather well with the grey streaks all down the paintwork from the rain

[Donatello]

Same in Lowestoft. The car needs washing anyway so this will just make me do it sooner.

[Justin Cyder]

Same here in Worthing. I've just finished a marathon round of jobs on the new Mini - Exhaust, Wheel bearing, pads, aux belt, tyres, wheel refurb, engine and tranny oil changes, various bits of trim and was just getting to the point where a nice wash was on the cards and I woke up this morning and thought buggeritall. I'll leave it til it rains again.

[nonuts]

Really, you folks sure it's not just pollen what with the pollen having been ridiculous over the last few days...

[SirSamuelOfBuca]

yep my car covered in dust :S

[StottyZr]

ShawCrossShark said:

StottyZr said:

Earlsheaton Mine was too, I thought it was odd.

Whereabouts? Best mate just sold his house and moved in with me after a split, he lived on Becks Court at the bottom of the hill

He was just at the otherside of the old railway line to me about 300yards as the crow flies.

[fatboy69]

Same for me in Gloucester. Spent over 3 hours yesterday washing, polishing & waxing the car only to find a layer of red dust all over the car.

Washed it off this morning & guess what? It's pissing down again!!!! Aaaaarrghhh.

[anonymous-user]

Same here in the Lake District.

Absolutely coated in a strange beige dust/dirt!

[skinley]

Highway Star said:

Car covered in the stuff this morning, near Oxford.

Same, on both counts.

[GTIR]

Yes, I think we can pretty much establish it's UK wide so no need to post your location.

What we (as in the PH collective) need to know is what's causing it?

[carreauchompeur]

Bizarre, I noticed this the other day. Car rarely stays out of the garage long apart from when it's at work so I was a little miffed to see the accumulated dirt on it.

[CoolHands]

that's odd - I noticed the same thing on my car. I assumed it was local building work or something (North West London BTW )

good thread

[defblade]

Aliens.

[CoolHands]

GTIR said:

What we (as in the PH collective) need to know is what's causing it?

We need people in the surrounding countries to chime in. France, Germany, Luxumburg,....err Netherlands (?),..Argentina,...Denmark...fk. what other countries are around?

[Riley Blue]

How come this dust only covers cars?

[ewenm]

GTIR said:

What we (as in the PH collective) need to know is what's causing it?

As someone said earlier, it's usually sand picked up by winds in the Sahara, carried north and falling in raindrops.

[Negative Creep]

Another one in Plymouth. Although the customary rain has at least washed it off

[captain ash]

Ah it seems to have been moved into GG. Thought it was more of a meteorology topic tbh

Glad to hear my problem is shared with you all