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MikeCracknell
25th March 2007, 12:18
Anyone else go outside this morning to find their car caked in Sahara Desert sand??????
Outrageous....cleaning beginning this afternoon lol :)
PugDan
25th March 2007, 12:21
Didnt get it here, thank god!
Cleaned mine yesterday!
Luke
25th March 2007, 12:23
The joy of two cars eh Mikey :P
Have fun cleaning, I gotta do Louise's for Brighton and my Mums Corsa.
craigy_87
25th March 2007, 12:41
did yesterday think it was all the salt on the roads being picked up
but car been cleaned an wax'd since then
sim69er
25th March 2007, 14:07
didnt get that here altho my car is caked in salt from the grit
Tobs
25th March 2007, 14:09
yuppppppp all down here in mk way the cars are are sandy bloops everywhere
wtf is it?
SNewham
25th March 2007, 14:10
yuppppppp all down here in mk way the cars are are sandy bloops everywhere
wtf is it?
yeh same here mate. Car is caked in it :n: :n:
Steve
25th March 2007, 14:14
i had that the other day, and yesterday.
saxochap
25th March 2007, 14:25
same here,
washed it all off this morning, no doubt it will be back tomorrow :n:
BENSAX3
25th March 2007, 14:38
better not be back i spent 4 hours cleaning my dads car as it was covered in it and mums car is aswell
thadogg
25th March 2007, 15:05
didn't get that up my way, but I live near a few quarries so it regularly gets caked in dust/sandy crap!
tom187
25th March 2007, 15:41
I got that.
:(
Predator_R32
25th March 2007, 15:47
sunny up north :y:
eee its that fine rain, worse kind of rain that fine rain :p
davew
25th March 2007, 16:10
yup had it here, just spent hours cleaning the car and i bet its back tommorow....
MikeCracknell
25th March 2007, 17:18
It is sand from the Sahara Desert - otherwise known as desert rain.
Huge dust storm there = gets into the upper atmosphere = gets blown all over the world (via Europe) = mixes with the colder air = rain drops form around the dust = falls onto the cars etc etc
Mitchell
25th March 2007, 17:19
it was raining here all night lastnight, thunder aswell.
cos i had my sounds of nature cd on to put me to sleep ;D
riggsy
25th March 2007, 17:20
Oooo nasty.
MikeCracknell
25th March 2007, 17:21
Oooo nasty.
Did you get it down your way punk?
Tobs
25th March 2007, 17:32
yh my mother just geekly said its the sand from the desert
top job mike rep for ya :)
lady_saxo
25th March 2007, 17:38
Yehh.. my car is filthy!! :( Going to wash it later though but its soo cold!!
MikeCracknell
25th March 2007, 17:40
***update, Suki and Zippy both clean now :)***
Baz
25th March 2007, 23:58
don't think i got any of that up here, cars dirty mind but ya know :p
MTR
26th March 2007, 00:34
Sometimes i love my garage, when it's clean it goes in at night and comes out just as good! :);)
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