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My new car is pearl white. It will be interesting to see how much work it takes to keep it looking nice.
Unless you get actual dirt on it (like kicking up dirty snow), it won't show much. The only other time it's obvious is during high pollen levels you'll see the yellow film, but that's with any color (except yellow/tan/beige). It was fine all winter until the snow started to come and everyone's spraying dirt/sand. I love my white. It's also classy & sporty looking at the same time.
Another issue is brake dust build-up (gah beemers) and that contrasts too much with the white. Need to clean that more than the car itself.
I'm getting a car soon and a lot of the ones that I'm looking at that are used are black. I have never owned a black car, and I live in a townhouse where a garage is not an option. For those that own this color, and/or are in a similar situation to me, would you get the color again? How high maintenance is the cleaning of it?
Not if I continue to live in Florida. Originally purchased in NJ then moved. Maintenance is the same as any other color IMHO - if you don't wash a white car it looks awful. If you don't have a garage, a black car will be awfully hot in the summer.
Any shade of gray is better than black - silver or even charcoal stand up better to dirt. Black is worse than white because most mud and salt dry to a fairly light color that contrasts worst with black.
I'm getting a car soon and a lot of the ones that I'm looking at that are used are black. I have never owned a black car, and I live in a townhouse where a garage is not an option. For those that own this color, and/or are in a similar situation to me, would you get the color again? How high maintenance is the cleaning of it?
No.
Just kinda boring and really looks dirty easily.
Don't get me wrong. A black car thats really clean and shiny can look like it's made out of liquid in a really awesome way under some street lights.
And I don't buy silver or white cars because I care about cleanliness that much.
But black really shows dirt so immediately and obviously that it takes away from all the coolness of being black.
Now my daily driver is a high in sports car convertible. My philosophy is all those car should be red. But my truck is gunmetal/charcoal grey. More interesting than black and looks good all the time.
I have a black '62 Grand prix, a black '15 Wrangler, and had a black '69 Corvette for years. As long as you keep a quality wax on the paint (I like Zaino), they are easy to keep clean. Dirt/dust rinses right off. It literally might be an extra 10 minutes a week to keep them looking pristine over a more neutral color.
I had a white Grand Prix GTP back in the 90's and it wasn't too bad to keep clean actually so yeah I definitely give a nod to white. It looks really good on certain cars too.
I have a black '62 Grand prix, a black '15 Wrangler, and had a black '69 Corvette for years. As long as you keep a quality wax on the paint (I like Zaino), they are easy to keep clean. Dirt/dust rinses right off. It literally might be an extra 10 minutes a week to keep them looking pristine over a more neutral color.
Yup. Being scared of keeping a black car clean seems like a lazy excuse, as it's not hard, even if you only wash the car once a week or once a month, so long as it has a good coat of wax (which really goes for any car color).
You live in Florida, so any car is hot as hell in the summer, as it is in my state, (Texas). I am amazed by how few people use a simple cheap sunscreen for their cars here. Probably 80% don't even on the hottest summer days. I think they don't because they don't want to spend 30 seconds putting it on and taking it off. When it's hot, I use one everywhere I go and when my car is parked my driveway, and it reduces the internal temperature by probably 40+ degrees. To me, it's certainly worth the minimal investment in my time to keep from working my A/C to death and overheating me while it's doing it.
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Originally Posted by GABESTA535
No way. My current car is black and my next one certainly won't be. My car is a sauna in the summer. I sweat the second I step in. My seats are black leather as well making it even worse.
It's probably the leather that your primary problem, not the color. With my sunscreen and cloth seats with seat covers, my car cools down quickly with A/C.
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Just looked at a Forbes article on the popularity colors of new cars for 2015.
In my opinion white cars always look like they were never finished, while silver and gray are almost invisible.
Just my two cents.
This. My wife told me that vehicle researchers have done studies and found that silver cars were most likely to get hit by other vehicles because their color was difficult to see, especially in cloudy/rainy/snowy weather. I'm not sure if that's true, but it's certainly logical.
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