new vehicle color: white,silver, or black? opinions please

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

black... but the interior of the car will absorb all the heat and be like a sauna on hot days.

 

[StubbedMyToE 10+ year member]

3800 engines are good.but oil leaks are a pain in the *** and quite common with them.

...I don't get it.

How do you call something good and then say something bad about it right after? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

pontiacs are horrible with residual value. don't hold up. guzzle gas (except the 4cyc models). bad crash tests.
etc

etc

i dont know what that means, and have always held up. have you ever had a 3800 engine. rated in the top 5 engines of all time. i have a friend who has a 95 bonneville w/ 324k on the clock and the only thing he has replaced other then routine maitenance was a water pump and a tie rod. thing runs like a champ, still has good power, gets good gas mileage, and there is no noises, knocks, lifter noise. nothing.

and the grand prix gets good gas mileage. i have a friend who has an 04 and he gets 31 mpg highway

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

they are strong engines but that is oe of there weak points.

 

[StubbedMyToE 10+ year member]

I'm not out to start a crap fest cuz we all like different things but are you serious about

"rated in the top 5 engines of all time"

?

I couldn't even guess what organization or magazine would say that kind of thing.

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

i had a 93 grand am and it had oil leaks that wouldnt' stop.

 

[chereck04 10+ year member]

I had a similar conundrum several months ago.. Every vehicle I ever owned was black, and I wanted something less labor intensive to keep clean as my daily driver. I ended up buying a white 08 Impala SS.

On the up side its nice because it doesn't show the dirt, rain/dew residue, or little bumps and scratches caused from parking lots nearly as bad as a black car. I wash it maybe once every 2-3 weeks and it still looks good. Unfortunately it really doesn't grab your eye. If you're accustomed to a sharp looking ride its a bit of a let down. If I had it to do over again, I'd probably go with another black one.

I gotta agree with 95BlackGA & StubbedMyToe, silver is the way to go if you want something that looks good and is easy to keep clean.

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

3800 engines are good.but oil leaks are a pain in the *** and quite common with them.

with my bonneville (93) i never had any oil leaks, only problem i had was my master cylinder seal went bad and it leaked brake fluid. i would add about a 1/2 quart a week. because at the time i didnt wanna replace it, but in the long run it cost more to keep putting the brake fluid in then to replace the master cylinder

Seems like you already know of the maintenance of a black vehicle. Black looks very sexy when clean and really shiny. It has a nice reflection to it. Black looks even better when the windows match the car, blacked out.

i love the look of a blacked out car. a girl i went to highschool with now has a blacked out grand prix. its an 04 black w/ black tinted windows and it looks great. now to truly black it out you gotta throw some black rims on there too

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

i like black

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

and you know

+1 for gm having dex cool and plastic head gasket covers.

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

black... but the interior of the car will absorb all the heat and be like a sauna on hot days.

yeah thats how its always been for me, and as long as i stay away from leather then the interior wont take to much of a toll. my bonneville had leather crackin out the *** from all the sun it got.

I'm not out to start a crap fest cuz we all like different things but are you serious about
"rated in the top 5 engines of all time"

?

I couldn't even guess what organization or magazine would say that kind of thing.

i believe it was in motor trend. i will try and look it up

I had a similar conundrum several months ago.. Every vehicle I ever owned was black, and I wanted something less labor intensive to keep clean as my daily driver. I ended up buying a white 08 Impala SS.
On the up side its nice because it doesn't show the dirt, rain/dew residue, or little bumps and scratches caused from parking lots nearly as bad as a black car. I wash it maybe once every 2-3 weeks and it still looks good. Unfortunately it really doesn't grab your eye. If you're accustomed to a sharp looking ride its a bit of a let down. If I had it to do over again, I'd probably go with another black one.

I gotta agree with 95BlackGA & StubbedMyToe, silver is the way to go if you want something that looks good and is easy to keep clean.

yeah and i dont want the same thing. i think im gonna stick with black as i love it and cant see me driving a different color vehicle

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

and you know +1 for gm having dex cool and plastic head gasket covers.

is that a good or a bad thing?

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

exterior color does not change the heat factor. Interior color, on the other hand...

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

is that a good or a bad thing?

bad because dex cool is shit and just another way for them to make money

and 2 the head gasketsb break like every 20k miles or so.

and i have yet to see a aluminum or some type of metal one on ebay.

 

[StubbedMyToE 10+ year member]

Thanks Konechiwa for the scientific analysis.

Whew.