Hi,

I am about to decide on my new Fabia VRS colour, (Red,Silver or Black) only thing is I have an Elegance with Nature Green and the scratches and chips are very visable.

I was wondering how everyone else gets on with the Light/Dark paints and the visbility of chips on them.

Cheers

Dan

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Fabia 1.9 Elegance

It's pretty obvious that if the colour is light the chips and scratches are less visible. Not only that, lighter colours means you don't have to wash the car everytime to keep it looking clean. I have a black Fabia, and it's a headache to keep clean, and it's also a headache to conceal the scratches and chips it has.

I too have a black fabia vRS and it looks absolutley wonderful - when its clean, it is an absolute pain in the ass to keep clean and if you love a clean car and dont fancy nightly washes i'd go for silver or yellow.

Scratches on black are sooo noticable too, not to mention polish residue if you are in a hurry. but the satisfaction when you wax it up is immense

Yellowwww

Check other threads. The VRS paint is very soft no matter which colour, and chips and scratches very easily.

Yellowwww

Is that guy in the 1st pic trying to steal your wheel?

Way too hot in the summer in a black one if you carry kids in the back, gone for a red one, as silver is now the colour of washing machines, and yellow is monkey puke

Trouble is always around the corner if you need any paintwork sorting out on a metallic or pearl mix !!!!!

Silver is the easiest colour to look after no mistake, but you need to get used to sitting in silver traffic jams.

My furby is silver and doing the miles I do I get lots of chips. The Skoda touch up pen is an excellent match and done right the chips/scrathes disappear.

Is that guy in the 1st pic trying to steal your wheel?

no its my m8 washing his wheel!!

umm blacks nice when clean, i have a black leon and kinda wishing i went for silver. those chips and swirl marks are such a bummer :(

I complained about the Magic Black paint on my car and had a "lesson" by the dealer today. He's also given me a quantity of "3M Finesse-it" to polish out the scratches in the lacquer...

cool what did he say?

Basically that, yes, the lacquer IS very soft, like most cars today, and when scratches it goes white. The "repair" process is to effectively heat it up so it flows smooth again. He applied the Finishing Material by rubbing it quite hard - harder than I'd have done without instruction - though he said it worked better using an electric polisher. However he guarded against using the usual sort of orbital electric polisher that he reckoned could over heat the lacquer and suggested they'd have to be used with water to counteract this.

I have decided that I am going to advise anyone who starts one of these colour threads to go with any colour other then black. I have a black one and reckon if I can stop people buying black one's mine will keep it's value longer.

Other then that go with the one you like best (not black)

good idea