LAC: Red paint prone to oxidation?

[David Kase]

I don't think it is necessarily color related across the board.  Now you 
will find that the red on early 90's Audi's oxidizes quickly but I don't 
think that carries over from brand to brand.
I repainted my 1990 90 20v  as I had to wax it almost every two weeks to 
keep it nice.   I believe it is year+brand+color specific on a paint 
that oxidizes heavily.

Dave K.

Andrew Buc wrote:

>I'm giving some thought to getting another car, and as it'll be used, I 
>won't be able to choose the color. I've heard somewhere that for some 
>chemical reason, red paint oxidizes more readily than other colors. 
>Anyone know anything about this? It seems to me that often the badly 
>oxidized older cars I see are some shade of red, but that's a 
>subjective, unscientific impression. From '95 to '99 I had a maroon '74 
>Peugeot that had some of the worst-oxidized paint I've ever seen on a 
>car--if I'd wanted to restore it, a repaint would definitely have been 
>part of the package. But I don't know what sort of care the finish 
>received in the 21 years before I got it.
>
>MAC: Many Audis are red.
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