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You take the good with the bad when your car's black

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Old 03-28-2010 | 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by BallJee
I had all black cars for over 10 years. I was looking for a black/black 996 and I ended up with a silver one. I still like black but man silver is so much easier to keep clean... I mean it just doesn't show the dirt as much .
+1... It's hard to see dirt on A/S... but now that I've done a lot of research on detailing, etc. I wish that I had gotten black or dark blue... You can spend a lot of time prepping, polishing, and waxing on Arctic Silver and it pretty much looks like you just washed it and nothing more... But black I think would be the ultimate in proving your detailing abilities...

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Old 03-29-2010 | 08:49 AM
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Ah, the curse of a black car. The most beautiful when clean, but ...

I recently switched to white also. A little easier to keep clean. The easiest car I had to keep looking clean was a dark gray color. For my Ford F250 I went with sh_t brown ...
 
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Old 03-29-2010 | 08:53 PM
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It's like you just got a brand new car when you're done with a wash and wax. That first drive after the last buff is pretty darned good, pretty darned good. The other 6 days of the week are, well, not quite so good.

Yep, welcome to the Jungle!

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Old 04-08-2010 | 07:33 PM
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Recently got the car back from a detail shop here in LA. Well, after the first day till now it doesn't look it got a full body detail. Yes its black.
 
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Old 04-08-2010 | 07:47 PM
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Losing battle. The air is so thick with pollen here in PA you have to have your headlights on during the day.
 
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