Am now ordering my 182 with the cup packs after failing to find a new 172 Cup.
Been approved and everything but will have to decide on the colour by tomorrow.
Have had two 1.2 16V Clios in the past and they were Platinum. Found this colour to be good as the fine swirls were invisible, they didnt fade in the sun and they didnt have to be polished everytime I washed them to look good. Also it was tough paint and didnt chip easy - or if it did the undercoat was a similar colour so you couldnt tell.
My current motor is black. My ideal colour for the 182 would be black but frankly I have had it up to here with the amount of maintenance it requires. Even the lightest swirls stick out and if I dont polish the car it looks grey and kind of smudged in places. On top of that it gets too damn hot in the summer even with AC. Black for me is absolutely to die for when it has just been polished and nothing looks better but after a few drives it looks dirty again. As soon as one nights dust settles (I have no garage) it goes from deep black to hazy grey!!!!
I was therefore considering the racing blue or titanium. To be honest I would like blue with stripes but I know those stripes will be picked off by ****ers if they dont fall off first due to polishing or weathering.
That leaves me with Titanium. I would like the Yellow colour but I worry about how fashionable that will be in a few years time and also if it needs non stop polishing and how it fades with sunlight (that was another worry with racing blue as it looks like a candidate for sun fade).
Titanium therefore would seem like my best choice but I just dont know how well it will go with the Cup pack wheels as I think it would look better with the standard wheels? That blue does go well with the cup wheels but you cant get stripes til September?
I havent seen many decent photos of Titanium models with Cup wheels. Anyone got any good ones I could see? Any other advice that could be given to help me decide?
God help me.
