Car Color That Gets Pooped on the Most
You park outside and come back to bird poop — on the roof, on the trunk, on the windows. Ew! And it’s not just disgusting; bird droppings quickly soften the clear coat on the paint finish, which leaches out the color. What’s left? A permanently faded spot. That’s the word from a British survey of 1,140 cars parked in five U.K. cities — Brighton, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol. Over a two-day period, researchers inspected the cars, recording car color and the frequency with which birds left their droppings, reports The Independent. Car colors and the percentage that were hit with bird poo:
- Red: 18 percent
- Blue: 14 percent
- Black: 11 percent
- White: 7 percent
- Gray or silver: 3 percent
- Green: 1 percent