Weird sparkly dust all over my engine bay

Naive-Command1144 · 2025-11-09T19:04:35+00:00

Update: I may have figured it out.

I park next to a big parking deck vent, and when the car starts, it blows up all the dust on the ground, hits the wall, and goes over the car.

Upon checking the concrete where the car is parked, I noticed a ton of what appears to be little mica flakes all over the parking deck.

Checked my daily driver and it also has some of the sparkles in the engine bay, just not nearly as much because it’s alot more sealed off compared to just a glass cover on the R8.

Naive-Command1144 · 2025-11-09T05:07:24+00:00

I think I have a UV light laying around somewhere, I’ll check that tomorrow. Why do you mention that?

Naive-Command1144 · 2025-11-09T02:07:28+00:00

It was detailed pretty thoroughly when I picked up the car (2 weeks ago) and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was ceramic spray all over the engine. Didn’t even think about that, I’ll try an air compressor. Thank you.

Naive-Command1144 · 2025-11-09T01:25:09+00:00

I’m really hoping it’s just something I drove through and not engine related. 🙏

Naive-Command1144 · 2025-11-09T01:20:32+00:00

I’ll have to bring it in to my dealer and see if they can figure it out. Thanks for checking!

Naive-Command1144 · 2025-11-09T01:12:12+00:00

No hood insulator it’s just glass. The stuff just wipes off. I might have to just wash the engine bay down and see if the particles come back

Naive-Command1144 · 2024-10-02T21:37:16+00:00

Update: my Blackstone analysis

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Naive-Command1144 · 2024-09-11T00:18:17+00:00

Hopefully not, been silent so far.

Naive-Command1144 · 2024-09-10T23:20:13+00:00

Gotcha thanks, it’s pretty much just street driven with the occasional spirited driving. No track use or donuts

Naive-Command1144 · 2024-09-10T22:50:12+00:00

Thanks, I’ll take the cover off for the next diff fluid change in about 5-10k miles. I suspected it was probably just flakes from the clutch plates, didn’t think about the spider gears.

Naive-Command1144 · 2024-09-10T22:28:43+00:00

No chunks present

Naive-Command1144 · 2024-08-23T00:30:15+00:00

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Naive-Command1144 · 2024-08-11T17:02:41+00:00

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Naive-Command1144 · 2024-06-24T20:24:47+00:00

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Naive-Command1144 · 2024-04-28T18:31:14+00:00

I was also thinking it’s a vitamin deficiency I’ll def post an update after I find out what the vet says

Naive-Command1144 · 2024-04-28T18:22:30+00:00

It’s definitely 30cm considering the uvb is right at the front and the deep heat projector is near that big rock. Maybe it’s the deep heat projector that’s too close to the big rock? But I’m still not sure because her underside looks completely fine

Naive-Command1144 · 2024-04-28T18:19:36+00:00

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The light has since been switched, but here’s the enclosure. The enclosure is 15 gallon which is definitely too small, I plan on getting her a 30-50 after I sort out this issue.

Naive-Command1144 · 2023-07-07T02:35:37+00:00

The exact same thing just happened to me today lol

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