What is that yellow-orange, waxy substance that I find on my car's paint all the time, in the form of neat little spots?

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This seems to have been asked on various other sites in the last 2 years or so, i have no clue what it could be but here a link from one of them . Shame its askville maybe you asked it there aswell as here to see what came up . http://askville.amazon.com/SimilarQuestions.do?req=rusty-water-spots-car-paint. Runs and washes brain in bleach to remove askville from my memory

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