Little blobs of mud on the car

[newsh]

Anyone else had these? Really weird, never seen anything like it before..

[Tractor Dave]

Sahara rain. We get it now and again.

[Ian Simmonds]

If it’s really sticky and either in approx 2mm dots or streaks or smaller and leaves hard to remove (almost damage) to the paint... It’s bee pollen wax. It’s a ba$tard on fresh paint. I’m guessing you’ll have oil seed rape or lots of pollen producing fields within a couple of miles radius.

[newsh]

It’s like clay or fine sand, maybe 4mm blobs
I’ll take pics tomorrow.
Read an article about how some kinds of wasps do this, mud wasps? We just have normal wasps

[bright blue]

housemartins building nests

[SteveH]

I've had this on my car recently. Came out one morning and there were spots all over the bonnet and roof. About 5mm each, reddish mud spots. It wasn't the Saharan rain all over the car, just spots. It looked like I'd been for a drive behind a muddy tractor, but the car hadn't moved for a week and I hadn't been down any back roads. It was definitely mud of some kind, fine but gritty. This was in Bristol.

[s2driveruk]

How odd...wifes golf had some mud on it and wondered how it had got there as all over it...i thouht the same, behind a tractor but seemed not.

[newsh]

I've had this on my car recently. Came out one morning and there were spots all over the bonnet and roof. About 5mm each, reddish mud spots. It wasn't the Saharan rain all over the car, just spots. It looked like I'd been for a drive behind a muddy tractor, but the car hadn't moved for a week and I hadn't been down any back roads. It was definitely mud of some kind, fine but gritty. This was in Bristol.

This is exactly it. I thought the same, wondered if a tractor had been past and sprayed something.
And it’s happened twice.

[Tractor Dave]

Seagull poo looks similar

[s2driveruk]

Look like these? They are all over the car here...

[newsh]

Yep

[newsh]

[Ian Simmonds]

That’s really odd? Is it actually mud or something a little less palatable?

[Bowie69]

Lichen off the roof?

[newsh]

It’s sand I think, probably from the Sahara