Best/most durable colour for a new 2

[Anonymous]

The other reason that puts me off silver is that it highlights all the darker plastic elements of the car and makes it look cheap.

Wow thats the EXACT reason i chose Silver!, thought it showed off the vent accents more! Horses for courses they say!

Same here  s:wink: :wink: s:wink:

Or just do what i did.....paint every dark colour silver to blend in    s:D s:D

[Anonymous]

Truth is the '2 will look good in just about any colour you can imagine (well almost, I wouldn't be too sure about say... khaki or brown)   s:D s:D  

But for durability I'm afraid the new environmentally friendly paints are not half as chip resistant or durable as the paints that were used on japanese cars 10 / 15 years ago. I used to have a Mitsubishi Eclipse and the paint on it was literally bomb proof... the car looked as new even after 12 years of a pretty neglected life  s:shock: :shock: s:shock:

[Anonymous]

Well I have waited long enough - here is my usual argument for why Blue is the fastest colour!!!

http://www.mr2-photos.co.uk/colour.htm

[Anonymous]

Just to join in this new argument.

Ive just bought a brand new sparkly mr2. The sable was nice and would hide any marks, however it only looked superb when it was clean.

The silver, hides dirt and any damage marks.

Black my least fave choice. Looks ok when clean, but very very very very difficult to keep clean

The red, very nice and easy to repair if any damage as it is a flat colour

Blue, looks great even when dirty, however will probably show any chips.


As for the ferarri colour thing, my mate has a silver one, there was a silver one in bad boys 2, etc. So although the most common is red, i do believe there is quite a few of other colours out there.

So there are pros and cons for different colours, i personally have the blue, which looks fantastic. When you walk into the car park and see a deep dark blue car parked there, it looks better than every car there, including the silver. Just hope i can keep it damage free

So whichever colour you go for you will be happy, I used to have a diferent silver toyota, so thats why i went for the blue.

[Anonymous]

Be different, go for a Ducati colour, Red or Yellow

I agree, Chill Red rocks!

<TOPIC DRIFT>Re. the other comments about certain colours being difficult to keep clean (particularly black), you can help yourself a lot by investing in some decent shampoo, sealant, wax.  I suggest a decent shanmpoo such as Meguiar's Gold Class (even Autoglym Bodywork shampoo is quite good), Vanilla Moose Hand Glaze, Poorboys Sealant, and a number of quotes of P21s wax (these items are available from http://www.seriousperformance.co.uk

Providing you wash once a week you can get decent results, and I have found that I get less spot marks from rain when using the above combo - so don't let it put you off going for a darker colour if that is what you want.



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Ash

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all your comments/thoughts. I've decided to play safe and go for silver. Hopefully I'll be collecting my car later this week.

Many thanks,

Andy    s:) s:)

[roger]

Sorry to change the thread a little...but a question for Craig (cstevens) following his comment.

If the sable has a lower wavelength rating and lower down on the discrete/flashy curve, surely it is a faster, cooler car than the lagoon blue, or can you explain otherwise  s:wink: :wink: s:wink:  

Thanks

roger

[Tem]

Hmmmm..lets NOT start this color debate in here...that's why we have Chit-Chat and Search to dig up the old posts  s8) s8)

[Anonymous]

Why does Toyota put White primer under black paint?  why not black primer, or at least dark grey like Mazda do now.

[Darth Paul]

Why does Toyota put White primer under black paint?  why not black primer, or at least dark grey like Mazda do now.

So you can get that starry night effect.  s:roll: :roll: s:roll:

[Anonymous]

its rubbish,

  s:cry: :cry: s:cry:

[Tem]

Why does Toyota put White primer under black paint?

Since there's white primer under the red paint as well...I'm guessing they paint all the cars with the same stuff (=costs less)...

[Anonymous]

Why does Toyota put White primer under black paint?  why not black primer, or at least dark grey like Mazda do now.

Are you sure about that? I know blue has light grey primer but my colleague has a black MkIII and the primer looks dark grey - almost black (the car's been to the bodyshop twice already this year alone!)

(Mind it's a 2000 model and the black is not metalic. So maybe it's changed to white on later models??)

P.S. The same dark grey for a '03 black Rav4 i've seen scratched big time in our car park.

[heathstimpson]

Had someone catch my rear bumper arch in a car park today and can confirm that the colour underneath is black on the plastic bits. Looks awfull on a silver car  s:cry: :cry: s:cry:  It will be a pain if I have to have the whole rear bumper sprayed for a small bit of scrapped paint on the arch; must look at trying some of that Lanka gear or ring Chips Away. Anyone here previously used Chips Away to repair minor scuffs before  s:?: :?: s:?:   If so any feedback  s:?: :?: s:?: