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Post by jimbo1958 » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:50 pm

Anyone else have dirty rain yesterday?
Came out to this today. Both cars covered in it. :cry:
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Post by Chris_D » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:56 pm

@120,000 feet or when released by the UFO in the stratosphere.
Just bits by the time it reaches the ground.
yw :thumbsup:
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Post by Smartbear » Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:01 pm

Our cars were the same yesterday in Essex, whereabouts are you based?
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Post by Silverzedtom » Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:32 pm

Also noticed this on mine. Im in Gloucester at the moment. I read that it's come from North West Africa and that it was due to drop with the rain over the uk, covering us all in filth. :thumbsdown:
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Post by mj2k » Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:51 pm

Ours are filthy too in Berkshire following Friday nights rain....so happy was I having just cleaned them :headbang:

Oh well gives me something to do tmrw :lol:
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Post by LewisB » Sun Apr 16, 2017 4:12 pm

mj2k wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:51 pm Ours are filthy too in Berkshire following Friday nights rain....so happy was I having just cleaned them :headbang:

Oh well gives me something to do tmrw :lol:
Same here in my part of Berks!
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Post by jimbo1958 » Sun Apr 16, 2017 4:30 pm

Smartbear wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:01 pm Our cars were the same yesterday in Essex, whereabouts are you based?
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Just up the M25 from you Rob in Enfield.
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Post by Highlander » Sun Apr 16, 2017 5:47 pm

Mine was reasonably clean from my last trip up north and would've washed it at the weekend if possible BUT came home from work,Thursday I think and it looked like it'd been parked in a dusty shed after a shower of rain.......we're 10 miles south of Perth BTW.
Washed today :thumbsup:

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Post by Vonlipvig » Sun Apr 16, 2017 6:06 pm

Yup both ours were down in the south west! Looks to have covered quite a wide area, glad I was too lazy to clean the car last week and left it till today :)
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Post by mr.tourette » Sun Apr 16, 2017 6:52 pm

seem to get a lot of that up here in n.wales...does my swede in as it invariably hits a day or 2 after cleaning the cars :headbang:
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Post by pvr » Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:19 pm

We had no rain at all south of the M25 ...
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Post by buzyg » Mon Apr 17, 2017 12:25 am

No rain for a week of so here in Cornwall. Did rain on my Zed when it was in for it's Mot a few weeks back. Came back looking similar though more sandy. :tumbleweed:
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Post by enzed4 » Mon Apr 17, 2017 5:16 am

Thanks for reminding me how lucky I am to have the Zed tucked up in a garage :)
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Post by Buckz » Mon Apr 17, 2017 1:02 pm

Yup mine is covered in a layer of thick sand/dust. No actual rain till yesterday but the car is still covered in it, must be wind ?
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Post by mjennings23 » Tue Apr 18, 2017 7:00 pm

Black roof on my DS3 has very rapidly turned grey over the weekend, was sure I didn't do that bad a job cleaning it!

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