The red stuff? Mitsubishi used some of that stuff- got super sticky, slowed down the mech cams to the points the OC/timeouts would trip. Bet you came across loading mech timeouts in logic controlled cass deck car audio.
Anything that came across my workbench for car audio was worthy of a full rebuild. Soundstream, Coustic, Alpine, Sony, Pioneer where everyday and due to specializing in car audio I became very fast at disassembly, rebuild and reassemble with calibration and test. There where jammed mechanisms and yes some logic timeout issues from all sorts of failures of the mechanism. Mostly it was fried solenoids with fried driver transistor, CPU failures, bad displays and driver, lots of front panel switches so I had inventory on the types required, failed voltage regulators, zener diodes failing, burned PCBs from people having a bad ground on their amps and the head unit supplying ground through the RCAs, reel tables/clutches and so I had inventory on hand for those too, jammed loading mechanisms, jammed cassettes, belts, water damaged and on and on. It's car audio so one expects anything and multiple faults due to people not wanting to remove the head unit till it reallly has to come out for service. After awhile I found the head units to be pretty routine to service and looked to 10 disc changers and bigger and bad'er power amps to get my kicks. Due to the harsh nature of the car environment and the multiple faults in most every repair I disassembled most out of warranty units and did a full rebuild so the owners got their moneys worth and they had no issues upon re-installing.
As a side note if you ever see one of these Soundstream TC-308 cassette units get it/add it to your collection... They have wow and flutter down to about 0.05%. Are simply wonderful to work on too. It's a precision mechanism and one can feel it and see it as they work on it. Lotsa fun servicing those. It's the best cassette head unit I have ever seen and calibrated.