Why I Bought a Silver Car

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Dunbar42

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I just traded in a black car for a new silver one. As I was getting my mail today I noticed this guy furiously washing his silver car with a brush. He had just finished cleaning the wheel and setting the brush down on the ground (bristles down.) As you can see the car still looks pretty good despite the abuse. Not that I would ever do such a thing to one of my vehicles :smile:



 
Astro_ng said:
The beauty of silver for masking swirls and scratches, too bad it's plain as hell!
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Do a nice polish job and then throw something like Z2 on top and it won't be plain anymore.
 
Eh, clearcoat is clearcoat. People who don't see marring on silver aren't trying very hard in the right kind of lighting. And yeah...if silver looks "blah" it's probably because of all that marring that "you can't see" ;) Keep it as nice as you would black and it'll be very impressive. So there ;)



Gee the preceding sounds awfully pedantic, huh?!? :o How Autopian of me :chuckle:



Heh heh, lest I sound like a complete [jerk], I do appreciate the way *white* paint hides marring on my Crown Vic, but that car's...uhm...not about looking Autopian. IMO white is far better for looking OK without being marring-free, just keep it clean and "shiny" and it can be maybe 85% even when in simply awful shape; I can't get by with that on silver.
 
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M105/205/PO85rd+DWG+UPGP. Doesn't look boring to me.
 
yakky- yeah...next time I do silver I plan to use the PO85RD on it, see if it turns out any better than with my 1Z stuff. Well-polished silver can be so blinding in the sun that you can't even begin to do inspections that way.
 
Accumulator said:
yakky- yeah...next time I do silver I plan to use the PO85RD on it, see if it turns out any better than with my 1Z stuff. Well-polished silver can be so blinding in the sun that you can't even begin to do inspections that way.
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I love the stuff, very easy to work with. But I know what you mean about the sun. For me, gas station lights are most unforgiving on silver.
 
Accumulator said:
IMO white is far better for looking OK without being marring-free, just keep it clean and "shiny" and it can be maybe 85% even when in simply awful shape; I can't get by with that on silver.
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I had a white Accord and IMO white shows dirt and dust more than silver. Here's a picture of my new car with 2X 1000p topped with OCW (no polishing yet.)



BTW, after nearly four years with a black car I'm ready for "boring." I was tempted to get the platinum grey paint color but in the end settled on "boring."



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I have two BMWs one white one silver. The silver is way easier to maintain than the white. I have had these conversations with Accumulator and he doesn't agree. I am probably not as picky as he is about swirls. If I can't see them with the flouresants in my garage or the sun outside, I don't look for thme with another light.

As far as I am concerned silver is the easiest color to maintain. I have had probably had at least 25 cars of all colors so I have some experience.
 
White is easier to see swirls, but also easier to miss spots when correcting (also easy to miss LSP residue...). Silver hides swirls well but as said before, it's one of those colors that looks good when it is, and okay when it isn't. I much prefer correcting the dark colors and black tones, but I like to own white or gray vehicles.
 
I really do get a kick out of how people's views on this vary so much! At least people are finding out which colors work best for them when it comes to something that won't drive you nuts.



TedFred- Yeah, I think our difference on this one is primarily a matter how how we're looking at the vehicles.



And when it comes to white and fluorescent light, I'm reminded how Bill D has sometimes found that those lights work better for swirl-spotting on white than on any other colors, maybe that factors in too :think:



Dunbar42- Yeah, I can see the dirt-hiding point, guess I'm more concerned about marring. I just don't seem to notice it on white the way I do on silver :nixweiss



Yakky- Yeah, it was the gas station lights at night that prompted me to start experimenting with the incandescent trouble light, which is still my overall fave inspection light for silver. Heh heh, now I'm the self-satisfied [jerk] who's staring at his silver car while gassing up, nodding my head and grinning like a fool :o Until I got the hang of using that trouble light I was the guy muttering under his breath and trying to avoid looking at the car...or filling up during daylight!
 
Stepping away from a silver company car this time and going with white. Time for a change I guess after the last 4 being silver.
 
Accumulator said:
And when it comes to white and fluorescent light, I'm reminded how Bill D has sometimes found that those lights work better for swirl-spotting on white than on any other colors, maybe that factors in too :think:
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Yeah my garage lights are fluorescents but I was really able to inspect my white Cadillac well with my fluorescent trouble light which also kicked the bucket. :( So maybe I eventually just ought to look into a Sun Gun and have something that lasts for a long time ( I hope!)
 
Silver is also a "stealth" color... a friend who is a Massachusetts State Trooper convinced me to go with a silver or gray Mustang after telling me that the color I originally wanted (Screaming Yellow) is 1000% more likely to be stopped for playing "Right Foot and Pedal Symphony in Ford Major" than a silver/gray car... mine is Tungsten Gray and I am glad that I chose wisely! :xyxthumbs:headbang:
 
David Fermani said:
Stepping away from a silver company car this time and going with white. Time for a change I guess after the last 4 being silver.
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Man up and get black! :loco:
 
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