What color car to get: easiest to maintain

FUNX650 said:
That's a long time to be worrying about
the color of the vehicle you'll be getting:
It's enough to make your hair turn gray!!

So that's the color I'll suggest you
go with...for the new Toyota. :xyxthumbs:

I know Bob but I like to dream and plan on my next car. Usually I'm rushed either because my DD breaks down with a issue that makes me get a new car or my brother in law's car/truck breaks down so I need to sell him mine so I end up with a new truck.

I'm very likely follow this forums advice and get a silver one as I want to keep my truck as swirl free as possible. My other weekend car is a black GT3 which I always hand washed since new with a lamb mitt, dried with a MF towel but still ended up with swirls likely due to the fact that I let the dealer "wash" the car every year or two when I got the oil changed.
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Silver/light gray. Honestly, if you can afford a new Land Cruiser you can afford to have it professionally detailed on a regular basis. Color shouldn't matter. Get the one you like.
 
Of all the cars I've had, silver was (and is) the best, orange was second best. It's easy work to keep a silver car looking great. My first car was an orange '72 VW Beetle convertible. That was a color that really grew on me, and it took and held a high polish well.
 
:nomore: white vehicle for me. :iagree: it's hard to tell it's dirty and sometimes I almost feel like i'm waisting my time keeping clean. :awman: People already think we AGO'ers are nuts as to how much attention we pay to our vehicles but with white you have to put your face down d@mn near on the the paint to see defects :buffing: I've been asked a few times, 'Just what the h3ll are you looking for down there' :hijacked:
 
Seems the consensus is Silver.
I'll buck the tide though, and say one dislike I've noted about Silver Paint.

That Silver can sometimes be a bugger to match in the event of damage.

In truth, all paints can be, even white, or black. I know paint technology has come a long way, that many repair places are far from back alley Tiajuana. But metallic, and pearls still are the hardest IMO.

That not also paint hue, but coarseness appearance of the metallic itself varying from batch to batch. That it is never 100% no matter if DaVinci was at the gun.
 
MarkD51 said:
Seems the consensus is Silver.
I'll buck the tide though, and say one dislike I've noted about Silver Paint.

That Silver can sometimes be a bugger to match in the event of damage.

In truth, all paints can be, even white, or black. I know paint technology has come a long way, that many repair places are far from back alley Tiajuana. But metallic, and pearls still are the hardest IMO.

That not also paint hue, but coarseness appearance of the metallic itself varying from batch to batch. That it is never 100% no matter if DaVinci was at the gun.
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I agree on the paint matching, at least that's how it was several years ago. My dad has an older truck that is two tone black and silver. It has been repaired/repainted three or four times and each time the silver was a little different than the others.

Also, silver doesn't have the wow factor that the darker colors have IMO. Our LP salesman got a new silver Ford Escape (company car) and he said he was really disappointed in the way it looks. He takes amazing care of his cars, and it doesn't really look any different than any other silver car on the road. He bought a ruby red Escape for his wife and the difference in wow factor is night and day. He had a dark gray metallic Fusion before and it always stood out also. Silver might be easier to maintain, but the results of your work aren't as obvious/rewarding IMO.
 
Yeah silver and other very light metallic colors, wife had a light tan metallic forerunner and after 2 pain staking hours of washing and waxing a treating the plastics i would stand back and think hum looks a little better.
 
A low-maintenance car color is, like champagne, gray, silver, etc. They are the best car colors to go for if you opt for low-maintenance colors, as they would blend or match with the shade of the contaminants that accumulate on the car’s surface.
 
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My old boss from the car was always got silver because it hid the wash inflicted damage.

He told me that directly.
 
White- and its not even close
silver is the fastest fading color there is
 
I had grey, silver, white, brown, black, blue

By far silver is the easiest to maintain, once a month wash is enough however it is the one that looks mehhh when detailed. Its a plain boring colour

For me white with tinted windows or black really pop hard when maintain. Would take those 2 ( with blue behind them) any day of the week just because i love how it looks when clean

Silver is something I would buy my wife so i dont have to wash it lol
 
I have only detailed 2 cars multiple times now. One is white and one is bluestreak metallic. Very little fun in detailing and polishing white cars IME. Its my father's and i'm not even going to waste my time anymore frankly. It's boring and you can't even see what you are doing most of the time. My sister has 3 white cars and i'm not interested at all. I always tell them they should change colors lol

Maybe an old white car would be fun.
 
noorth said:
I have only detailed 2 cars multiple times now. One is white and one is bluestreak metallic. Very little fun in detailing and polishing white cars IME. Its my father's and i'm not even going to waste my time anymore frankly. It's boring and you can't even see what you are doing most of the time. My sister has 3 white cars and i'm not interested at all. I always tell them they should change colors lol

Maybe an old white car would be fun.
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I get what your saying coming from a black car, which gives most satisfaction when detailing to white.

But with that being said I appreciate it a lot more when I find something to make the white pop as it is much harder.

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The gloss I got here on in polished paint had a smile on my face. I think the white colors itself makes a difference. Off whites and pearls seem to react a lot like silvers.


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I went through the same dilemma. I’ve had all black vehicles up until I ordered my F250 and I wasn’t sure what color to get. We all love the look of a just detailed black vehicle.

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But, I don’t have the time the time to do weekly washes, or the ability to break out all the detailing carts on a given day to really keep it glowing. It’s fine on my wife’s Mustang since it’s only daily driven about 2 miles for her to drop the kids off at school and then back into the garage it goes, but for my vehicle that’s driven 27 miles to work, sits in the weather for a week then driven back home, I didn’t want black again.
I went with Fords Atlas Blue. Hopefully it’ll be easier to clean than the Agate Black F150 I had. Here it is fresh off the truck, never been washed and drove 180 miles home from the dealership. They actually listened to my request of: Dont wash the vehicle off the truck and don’t put the dealer stickers on it.
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What I would do is find what kind of vehicle you want to buy, order it from the factory, and tell them not to wash it so you don’t get the dealer induced swirl marks, that way you can just wash, dry, and either put a ceramic coating on it or a good polish to protect that fresh paint job and maintain it.


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Brrr said:
I went through the same dilemma. I’ve had all black vehicles up until I ordered my F250 and I wasn’t sure what color to get. We all love the look of a just detailed black vehicle.

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But, I don’t have the time the time to do weekly washes, or the ability to break out all the detailing carts on a given day to really keep it glowing. It’s fine on my wife’s Mustang since it’s only daily driven about 2 miles for her to drop the kids off at school and then back into the garage it goes, but for my vehicle that’s driven 27 miles to work, sits in the weather for a week then driven back home, I didn’t want black again.
I went with Fords Atlas Blue. Hopefully it’ll be easier to clean than the Agate Black F150 I had. Here it is fresh off the truck, never been washed and drove 180 miles home from the dealership. They actually listened to my request of: Dont wash the vehicle off the truck and don’t put the dealer stickers on it.
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What I would do is find what kind of vehicle you want to buy, order it from the factory, and tell them not to wash it so you don’t get the dealer induced swirl marks, that way you can just wash, dry, and either put a ceramic coating on it or a good polish to protect that fresh paint job and maintain it.


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Atlas Blue is a stunning color, well chosen!! :dblthumb2:
 
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