LAC: Red paint prone to oxidation?

[Grant Lenahan]

The newer clear-coated paints should be OK.  Earlier audi flat red did 
soften.

Grant
On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:44 AM, 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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