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Looking for opinions as to what is the easiest color to keep clean.
IE,..black in my opinion dirties quickly and also seems to spider web
and its hard to keep a glossy finish. I'm picking up a new Civic shortly
and what to go with the most trouble free finish.

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:15:57 GMT, Frank Garvin
<webit@accesswave.ca[NOSPAM]> wrote:

>Looking for opinions as to what is the easiest color to keep clean.
>IE,..black in my opinion dirties quickly and also seems to spider web
>and its hard to keep a glossy finish. I'm picking up a new Civic shortly
>and what to go with the most trouble free finish.
silver seems to be easy

Frank Garvin wrote:
> Looking for opinions as to what is the easiest color to keep clean.
> IE,..black in my opinion dirties quickly and also seems to spider web
> and its hard to keep a glossy finish. I'm picking up a new Civic shortly
> and what to go with the most trouble free finish.

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White and silver are best . . .Take a look at this on-going discussion:

http://www.hondasuv.com/stg/viewtopic.php?p=92240#92240

'Curly'

Frank Garvin wrote:
> Looking for opinions as to what is the easiest color to keep clean.
> IE,..black in my opinion dirties quickly and also seems to spider web
> and its hard to keep a glossy finish. I'm picking up a new Civic shortly
> and what to go with the most trouble free finish.


IMO, a silver/champaign color hides dust best

motsco_ _ wrote:
> Frank Garvin wrote:
>
>> Looking for opinions as to what is the easiest color to keep clean.
>> IE,..black in my opinion dirties quickly and also seems to spider web
>> and its hard to keep a glossy finish. I'm picking up a new Civic
>> shortly and what to go with the most trouble free finish.
>
>
> ------------------------
>
> White and silver are best . . .Take a look at this on-going discussion:
>
> http://www.hondasuv.com/stg/viewtopic.php?p=92240#92240
>
> 'Curly'
>

when i see a white car, i think "rental". JMO, of course.

"SoCalMike" wrote

> IMO, a silver/champaign color hides dust best

Champagne... it's called Desert Mist Metallic (on Accords, anyway), and it
can look nice in a non-desert environment where everything already looks
like the desert. Mine's white, doesn't show swirls, reflects the heat,
looks sharp when clean. Also, it has a light tone interior, whereas the
silver (Accords) have a black interior. No thanks on black. I just wish the
white had that metallic luster I see on some other cars.

Howard Lester wrote:
> "SoCalMike" wrote
>
> > IMO, a silver/champaign color hides dust best
>
> Champagne... it's called Desert Mist Metallic (on Accords, anyway), and it
> can look nice in a non-desert environment where everything already looks
> like the desert. Mine's white, doesn't show swirls, reflects the heat,
> looks sharp when clean. Also, it has a light tone interior, whereas the
> silver (Accords) have a black interior. No thanks on black. I just wish the
> white had that metallic luster I see on some other cars.

Desert Mist is really beige. Honda calls their colors a "pearl"
finish, but it is really just metallic flakes, unlike mica used in
upscale cars. Desert Mist hides dirt like your mother-in-law is
coming over. When I think of a rental car, I think of red, by the way.

jmattis@attglobal.net wrote:

> Desert Mist is really beige. Honda calls their colors a "pearl"
> finish, but it is really just metallic flakes, unlike mica used in
> upscale cars. Desert Mist hides dirt like your mother-in-law is
> coming over. When I think of a rental car, I think of red, by the way.

Toyota also calls some of their colors "pearl". My brother has a 2005
Corolla whose color is, as Toyota calls it, "phantom grey pearl".

jmattis@attglobal.net wrote:
> Desert Mist is really beige. Honda calls their colors a "pearl"
> finish, but it is really just metallic flakes, unlike mica used in
> upscale cars.

yup. proud owner of a 98 civic cx, in "dark pearl amethyst". g/f calls
it "the purple egg"

SoCalMike wrote:
> jmattis@attglobal.net wrote:
>
>> Desert Mist is really beige. Honda calls their colors a "pearl"
>> finish, but it is really just metallic flakes, unlike mica used in
>> upscale cars.
>
>
> yup. proud owner of a 98 civic cx, in "dark pearl amethyst". g/f calls
> it "the purple egg"

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Is that the one that's the color of eggplant? Really hard to keep clean?
Looks black under the right street lights?

'Curly'