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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 03:21 PM
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Default silver, easy to maintain?

i had a red camaro, and man did that thing shine up in the sun when cleaned...and wasnt all that hard to keep clean, unlike my sisters black car..
i was wondering what the story is on silver cars
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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 03:25 PM
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very easy to keep clean, probably one of the easiest



My car was pretty dirty there, but the color hides it well
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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 09:30 PM
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i LOVE how easy it is to take care of these cars!! i havent washed mine in two weeks, you cant even tell!!
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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 10:38 PM
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Silver is so easy to maintain and it still gleams more than ever after a good wash
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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 10:40 PM
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I am in AZ and dust is a problem and my pewter car is great here.......
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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 10:42 PM
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Silver is probably the 2nd easiest, with Pewter/Silver Metallics being the easiest.

Hey, my car's getting a new paintjob soon and is currently black. Normally they'd need to do the inner doors/under the hood etc when repainting, but I'm starting to think leaving those black and doing the rest of the car a silver metallic would look cool.
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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 10:43 PM
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My younger bro has a silver ws6 and it is the easiest to maintain!! He keeps his car outside once in a while and it never ever gets dirty. On the other hand when mine is out for more than 2 hours it gets nasty. Overall silver is the best in my opinion.
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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 10:57 PM
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easy to keep clean...hard to make shine. its just hard to get that deep wet look with lighter colored cars, but we try

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After owning a black car... F-THAT never again hahahah but I do like the look of the silver f-bodies. Silver IMO always cleaned up the easiest, and like it was mentioned, it was one of the hardest to get a good shine out of it. It's possible, but darker colors will always give off the wet, more liquidy (...word?) look. All just my opinion.

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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 11:38 PM
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silver pretty easy to maintain i love my cars color
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