 |
 |
 |
||||||
 |
|
 |
||||||
|
Auto Cross, Drag Racing, Car Show, Awards & Prizes - Register Now! |
||||||||
|
|||||||
Auto Washing & Detailing Wax, polish, chamois, microfiber towels, simple cloth towel or scratch repair. Use this Forum to discuss your cleaning tricks and techniques.
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
06-05-2012, 10:00 AM
|
#1 | ||||
|
Focus Addict
 |
Dirty Rain
So I wash my car the other day and last night a rain storm blew threw and this morning when I go out to my car it is covered with dried dirty rain drops! I never seen anything like it, it was as if the rain water came down dirty and only spritzed the car for a second then stopped. Absolutely the entire car is covered with dried dirty rain drops!
No, it was not under a tree or light pole or anything! Brian |
||||
|
|
|
Advertisement
|
Remove Advertisements |
|
Focus Fanatic
Fan#: 1
|
|
|
06-05-2012, 10:04 AM
|
#2 | ||||
|
Focus Fanatic
 
|
The dust in the air gets trapped in the rain drops and then dries leaving the dust behind;it's a cruel cycle.
__________________
'12 Focus Red Candy SE Sport 5 spd '99 Toyota 4Runner Sport '11 Subaru WRX STI Hatch |
||||
|
|
|
06-05-2012, 11:06 AM
|
#3 | ||||
|
Focus Addict
|
Yeah, I figured it must have been dust in the air that got picked up by the rain drops -- I've just never seen anything like it before in my life! Sure, I've seen it a little dirty, but this was DIRTY and precisely confined to the shape of the dried rain drops.
Brian |
||||
|
|
|
|
06-05-2012, 11:17 AM
|
#4 | ||||
|
Gets more V8
 
|
that's happened to me a few times this year.
__________________
SR #127 | '02 Focus SE "Foci" (5.0 in progress) | '90 Mazda 626 GT "Greenie" (2.2L turbo T3/T4 rebuild-selling) | '94 Toyota 4Runner SR5 "Roach" (daily-stockish) Moderating General Chat Lounge, General Technical Chat, Ford Focus & General Car Chat, and Rocky Mountain Fanatics Quote:
|
||||
|
|
|
|
06-05-2012, 11:50 AM
|
#5 | ||||
|
Guest
|
It's fantastically artistic isn't it!
Just wait till you have so much sealant and wax applied that when a bird poops on your car it beads up! 
|
||||
|
|
|
|
06-05-2012, 12:35 PM
|
#6 | ||||
|
Focus Addict
|
Here in the desert it happens when it rains or sprinkles. There will be a fine layer of unseen dust on the car and when it sprinkles the water and dust bead up if your car has any wax on it then it dries into thousands of dust spots. If I think a sprinkle shower is possible I will "california car duster" my car to minimize this.
|
||||
|
|
|
|
06-05-2012, 01:45 PM
|
#7 | ||||
|
Focus Addict
|
Quote:
I just got back from lunch and I sprayed my car off at the local car wash. Not a full on job mind you as it's expected to rain this afternoon, but I just had to get that crap off my car... Brian |
||||
|
|
|
|
06-05-2012, 02:13 PM
|
#8 | ||||
|
Focus Fanatic
|
Dust storms carry tons of dust into the air. That air could easily get carried hundreds/thousands of miles and bang into a raincloud and thus you have dirty rain.
|
||||
|
|
|
|
06-06-2012, 01:53 AM
|
#9 | ||||
|
Focus Rookie
 |
Raindrops form around microscopic pieces of debris in the air (dirt, dust, etc.) So all raindrops will leave a dirty residue if they dry on your car.
|
||||
|
|
|
|
06-06-2012, 09:34 AM
|
#10 | ||||
|
Focus Fanatic
|
And sometimes those particulates adhere to the paint thus a claybar job is a good idea once a year.
__________________
'12 Focus Red Candy SE Sport 5 spd '99 Toyota 4Runner Sport '11 Subaru WRX STI Hatch |
||||
|
|
|
|
|
| Bookmarks & Social Networks |
«
Previous Thread
|
Next Thread
»
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:39 AM.
 |
|
 |
||
 |
|
 |