ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

For the Paintwork, It really depends on the colour of the car. As some colours are more suscepable to UV than others.

Red being the worst candidate which likes to go pink.

The type of paint is another factor, cars with a clear coat laquer on top (any metallic or pearlesant) This seems to help protect the paint finish from UV. This probably one of the main reasons why most modern care painted in solid colours now have a laquer top coat.

And a final factor is if the car has had a crap or DIY repair job done, as the paint on the repaired area will most certainly fade quicker that the original.

Excessive UV can cause paint to flake and peal off - but this is only observed in very hot and dry desert like climates and takes years if not decades to occur.

Plastic-wise, Un-painted plastic will go brittle and fade over time. Not sure how the "soft" plastic on the scooby's dash would cope. Painted plastic (such as bumpers) sometime fade to to a different colour to the rest of the paint on the car, not sure why. But red is once again the worst colour for this (the colour coded plastic body parts end up more pink than the paint on the bodywork).

Tyres also will be susceptable to cracking

[Edited by ALi-B - 11/1/2003 11:37:02 AM]

AK47

serious answers please otherwise I would have posted in Muppets. OK OK, one or two silly answer only if Muppets must

Leaving an Impreza or for that matter any other car in the sun for long spells during the summer, what kind of damage would I be looking at in the long run?

boxst

Hello

I don't think there would be much damage at all.

It's the Autumn and Winter you have to worry about with all the leaves rotting their way through the paintwork.

Steve.

+Doc+

If there is water droplets on your car and then bright sunshine these droplets act as a magnifying glass and make small pits in your paintwork, you wont see them with the naked eye but over time it dulls your paint.
Just keep it well polished and you should be ok.

AK47

but wouldn't the effects of UV change the plastic interior of certain vehicles to a different colour shade? wiper arms would also perhaps change colours? and how about paint of the car will it lose the gloss?

these are all cosmetics, but can other things get affected?

Brun

Car Cover?

PG

forget wax wizard

Factor 30 will do you nicely

AK47

Thanks peeps

Lord Jeffery Wode esq.

However slim a possibility - you should always try to account for stampeding wildebeest.

AK47