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Did we have a post your favourite factory colour thread? That would be good imo (Paint everything mexico blue.)
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I'm not even a huge fan of green but I would love to have my car painted in a color called Sassy-Grass Green
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May 14, 2013 17:56
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G-Mach posted:I want more 60/70s MOPAR car colors on current cars. That all comes from back in the day where you custom ordered your car and waited a few weeks for it to be built and delivered. Interesting colors are a casualty of the development of huge dealer lots with weeks and months of inventory, which also hosed around considerably with the factory-dealer payment schemes, credit practices etc. I think in the longer run custom ordering is going to come back, so hopefully it'll bring cool colors back too. It was pretty stark driving around in Korea and 99% of cars are white, black, silver, but it's not much better here.
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May 14, 2013 17:57
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I hate bland, earthy-colored cars not just because they're boring, they're less noticeable when you are checking your blind spots. Little econoboxes shouldn't be the same color as the road  (they should also stay out of people's blind spots but one of these can be fixed at the factory)
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May 14, 2013 18:09
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Snowdens Secret posted:That all comes from back in the day where you custom ordered your car and waited a few weeks for it to be built and delivered. Interesting colors are a casualty of the development of huge dealer lots with weeks and months of inventory, which also hosed around considerably with the factory-dealer payment schemes, credit practices etc. I think in the longer run custom ordering is going to come back, so hopefully it'll bring cool colors back too. I thought I remembered someone posting hereabouts that there are regulations or some kind of impetus to use paints that use less water, or some variety of no-longer-kosher additive, and that's the other reason for paint colours being severely curtailed and kind of bland. Anyway, the Dodge Dart has one of the biggest paint selections I've seen in a long time outside of builders who are like "you're paying us enough already, we can paint it chartreuse if you'd bloody like".
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May 14, 2013 18:17
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Lead based paint maybe?
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May 14, 2013 18:19
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Phy posted:I thought I remembered someone posting hereabouts that there are regulations or some kind of impetus to use paints that use less water, Not less water....water based as opposed to urethane base. Ever notice how most 90s-2000s cars have factory orange peel? Yep, that's it.
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May 14, 2013 18:46
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Every new car I see still has orange peel. It look like rear end 
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May 14, 2013 18:54
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KozmoNaut posted:Every new car I see still has orange peel. It look like rear end True. It does seem that they've gotten somewhat better at it since the late 90's early 2000s (when it went really mainstream) so it's not quite as bad. It still hurts to look at, but most people just don't know or notice the difference.
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May 14, 2013 20:51
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what seems to be the problem here?
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Linedance posted:what seems to be the problem here? One of them is possibly violating a directional parking law.
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May 14, 2013 21:08
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I'm guessing it is the Micra (that is a Micra, right?) based on where the drivers' seat is. Unless it's a one way road, in which case who knows?
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May 14, 2013 21:09
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Rhyno posted:One of them is possibly violating a directional parking law. A who's his whatsit? I think it's that the Miata driver has gone out of their way to leave as much room as possible, which has been filled by one tiny badly-parked Micra.
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May 14, 2013 21:11
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jammyozzy posted:A who's his whatsit? I think it's that the Miata driver has gone out of their way to leave as much room as possible, which has been filled by one tiny badly-parked Micra. If you park opposing other traffic here in Indiana you can be ticketed for it. I have been in the past.
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May 14, 2013 21:12
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm guessing it is the Micra (that is a Micra, right?) based on where the drivers' seat is. Unless it's a one way road, in which case who knows? Nope, that would be me in the Miata, duh  I did get a warning for this once before, but generally nobody cares because the other option is to drive around two blocks to turn around and also gently caress reversing up a hill while parallel parking (the horror is coming from inside the thread, etc). As jammyozzy, I thought that was rather lovely that the tiny Micra is parked in such a way that anything larger than a miata would be difficult if not impossible to park there, and that's the same spot I parked this  next to this  before without exchanging any paint.
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May 14, 2013 21:51
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To be fair, maybe the Micra owner parked after some other cars arrived, and the other cars left before you arrived, thus making the Micra owner look like a douche.
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May 14, 2013 21:56
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Seat Safety Switch posted:To be fair, maybe the Micra owner parked after some other cars arrived, and the other cars left before you arrived, thus making the Micra owner look like a douche. Behind the Micra looks barely enough space for another Micra to sit there, let alone parallel park into it. Seems like that space was probably designed for just two cars to begin with, unless there was a motorcycle/scooter in it before. I had a terrible car question and in retrospect I'm sorry I didn't get a crappy dark cell phone photo, but last night when I got back to the Rockville, MD metro stop a red Nissan Silvia with the Vanity plate SILVIA was parked next to me, but it was left hand drive and dropped to the point of being essentially useless with all the speed bumps and construction around here. My question is were those ever sold with left hand drive because I thought they were just Japan and Australia, or can you import it and convert it from right hand drive, or could it in fact have been a terrible car (ride height aside) and really some 240sx that someone put a Silvia body kit on? Is that a thing?
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May 14, 2013 23:57
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It's a thing I wish to do to an S13 coupe someday [the Silvia body thing].  But mine will be a respectable ride height and painted nicely, no stickerbombing or shockers here.
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May 15, 2013 00:49
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G-Mach posted:I want more 60/70s MOPAR car colors on current cars. Plum Crazy was almost called "Statutory Grape"
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Polymerized Cum posted:Plum Crazy was almost called "Statutory Grape" I'm pretty sure that's a myth
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Seat Safety Switch posted:To be fair, maybe the Micra owner parked after some other cars arrived, and the other cars left before you arrived, thus making the Micra owner look like a douche. I hate when that happens to me. I always want to leave a little note of the side of my car saying, "I'm not a gigantic douche, honest! There was another car here forcing me to park like this."
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May 15, 2013 04:15
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Code Jockey posted:I'm not even a huge fan of green but I would love to have my car painted in a color called Sassy-Grass Green It's a nice colour but the name really sold it to me.
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May 15, 2013 12:45
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Now I kind of want to get my car painted Sublime.
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Polymerized Cum posted:Plum Crazy was almost called "Statutory Grape" Pink Panther was almost called Rooster Dink Pink.
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May 15, 2013 16:55
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 York, PA. Always classy.
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May 15, 2013 17:09
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Sno-White was almost called White Power. 
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Phy posted:I thought I remembered someone posting hereabouts that there are regulations or some kind of impetus to use paints that use less water, or some variety of no-longer-kosher additive, and that's the other reason for paint colours being severely curtailed and kind of bland. It is primarily the expectation that the paint actually maintain color for a long time and not get chipped to hell and back by gravel and such. This lead to clear coating, which then lead to metallic paints in order to try and accentuate the more gradual curves of more aerodynamic cars. Metallic paint diffuses color with the reflections from the small flakes so it looks best with neutral hues resulting in white, silver, and black. Here's a quick slate article about it, and they also think that people going bland for resale value may have something to do with it. I'd love to see pastels come back.
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May 15, 2013 17:14
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Shifty Pony posted:they also think that people going bland for resale value Cars are not investments and you get the best value driving them to death after paying them off. This poo poo thinking is there to keep people feeding the financiers' with loans.
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May 15, 2013 17:43
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Is there any truth to the rumor that red/yellow/brightly-colored cars are more expensive to insure?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiaqkRdc8B8 Nagano Koubou's USDM style S13 Silvia! It's like taking everything bad about zilvia and making it even more retarded. THANKS A LOT OBAMA.
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May 15, 2013 18:31
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Previa_fun posted:Is there any truth to the rumor that red/yellow/brightly-colored cars are more expensive to insure? They're more likely to be ticketed for a given infraction. On the other hand, I'm reasonably certain my insurer doesn't know what color my car is (i.e. they never asked).
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Rhyno posted:One of them is possibly violating a directional parking law. If that picture is from the UK then there's no such thing. I was baffled to discover these laws when I moved to the US, it seems ridiculous.
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drgitlin posted:If that picture is from the UK then there's no such thing. I was baffled to discover these laws when I moved to the US, it seems ridiculous. Not when your goal is revenue generation by inexpensive non-accredited uniformed police personnel (i.e. meter maids). Most cities and small tourist towns make a significant amount of money on parking revenue, including fines. Many small tourist towns make nearly half their police budget on that revenue alone (I know that's the case in my town as well as several surrounding similar towns).
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May 15, 2013 20:19
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Sometimes Parking Wars is on and I watch it to reinforce my stereotype of different car owners. It is always fun to watch someone have a four-alarm meltdown on a meter maid who tickets them for an egregious offense (parking on top of a handicap ramp, blocking a fire hydrant) and then inevitably seeing them return to a Jetta.
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May 15, 2013 20:25
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Drove past this standard hunk of 90s rear end and just figured "Beater". Then I noticed the vtec emblem on the front fender. 
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May 15, 2013 21:06
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Safety Dance posted:They're more likely to be ticketed for a given infraction. On the other hand, I'm reasonably certain my insurer doesn't know what color my car is (i.e. they never asked). Isn't the paint code somewhere in the VIN? They have the VIN so they may use that and just not say.
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drgitlin posted:If that picture is from the UK then there's no such thing. I was baffled to discover these laws when I moved to the US, it seems ridiculous. The front of vehicles don't have poo poo for reflectors on them, at least in US market trim; the idea is that you are more likely to see the rear end better on your side of the road with the legally mandated rear reflectors than the front with significantly fewer mandated reflectors.
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drgitlin posted:If that picture is from the UK then there's no such thing. Contruction & Use posted:no person shall, except with the except with the permission of a police officer in a uniform, cause or permit any motor vehicle to stand on a road at any time between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise unless the near side of the vehicle is as close as may be to the edge of the carriageway.
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