Interesting to hear that from a car dealer.steeve wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:33 am We did seriously consider a Kings Red car, the only new car in the whole dealership was a convertible Golf in Kings Red.
We decided not to go with that colour, after which the sales manager said you've made a good decision not to go with the red. He claims it's impossible to get a good repair, not possible to do a part panel and a whole panel will never look the same.
These days when I buy a car, as far as colour is concerned I consider the following;
- is there a high risk of paint colour mismatch if you’re unfortunate enough to need paintwork repairs?
- are stone chips easily repaired from the point of view of not being able to see the repair?
- is the paint colour able to ‘hide’ paintwork swirls? Dark colours are particularly bad at showing swirl marks, which will happen sooner rather than later if a poor wash technique (old style single bucket, sponge and wash leather) is used or if car washing duties are entrusted to the many hand wash places. Dealership complementary service washes are a ‘no-no’ too IMHO, unless you want your car’s paintwork to be given a free ‘scratch n swirl’ treatment with a bucket of dirty water and gritty sponge that’s already been used on other customers’ cars. No one other than me washes my car, and it’s always washed using a safe wash method, which minimises the risk of swirling.
With modern spectrophotometer paint matching technology used by good quality body shops, paint colour matching shouldn’t be such a big issue these days - assuming the new paintwork is correctly blended into the original factory paint on adjacent panels. However, I still wouldn’t ever buy certain coloured cars.
My current Polo GTI+ is Pure White, which meets my three paintwork considerations / criteria listed above (1st = low risk, 2nd = yes and 3rd = yes).