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What's the best paint colour to spend the least amount of time cleaning?
On a scale of light to dark, and solid to pearlescent, what's the best paint colour to spend the least amount of time cleaning?
Asked on 12 February 2017 by Josh
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Honest John
I have a Renault Kadjar outside in a sort of pearlescent red which shines right through quite a lot of collected dirt. Strangely, white works well and by far the worst colour of the lot for showing dirt and for cleaning is black.
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