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Thread Author: Runfer D'Hills	Replies: 109

Thu 17 Dec 15 20:11   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

It got "my" car colour (black) correct. Which would have been uncanny had I actually chosen it! ;-) www.autoexpress.co.uk/ford/93808/can-we-guess-what-colour-car-you-drive-sponsored Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 20:19   Colour of choice - ....

Strangely it got my current car right but my previous car wrong and I'm still me doing the same job, at the same place, with the same interests... Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 20:20   Colour of choice - Robin O'Reliant

Mine says white. I've never had a white car. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 20:23   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Maybe you should...perhaps it would improve your life? ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 21:35   Colour of choice - Robin O'Reliant

>> Maybe you should...perhaps it would improve your life? >> >> ;-) >> I've had several white bikes, including the current steed. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 20:25   Colour of choice - Armel Coussine

Not mine. It said white instead of silver. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 20:29   Colour of choice - MD

I got white which would have been my choice anyway. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 21:07   Colour of choice - henry k

It said green plus a load of guff but green is not my choice. White is my choice or else silver or a light close colour. My current car is ice blue but White has not been a realistic option on my last two cars, partly because I always buy second hand cars. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 21:16   Colour of choice - R.P.

Silver....I had two. The Roomster and my 2002 3 Series (compulsory) Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 21:11   Colour of choice - Slidingpillar

Got white too. I've never had one, and would not buy one from choice either. Rubbish questions too. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 21:13   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

Like RR, I got white although I've never had a white one. It thinks I'm rational and analytical, which is partly true, I suppose. What would it conclude from what's actually on the drive, which is a blue that's close to my ideal colour (four of the eight cars I've had a part in choosing have been blue) and a silver whose main merits are that it suits the car and isn't black? Since both were bought used anyway, does it indicate anything at all? Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 21:21   Colour of choice - Zero

Had me down as black, and thats the colour I most go for. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 21:26   Colour of choice - Slidingpillar

To be honest, some colours suit some cars better than others. And then some models have the strangest colour options going. When I was looking at a Honda Jazz, they did two blues, a red and all the other colours were metal shades. No yellows, greens, oranges etc. Someone down my road had a pink one, but it looked horrid, and I've never seen another! Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:06   Colour of choice - Rudedog

Wow! they got my car right - green. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 21:55   Colour of choice - Dog

White - Wrong Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:00   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

All you guys with the "wrong" coloured cars maybe need your Chop Suey realigning or something! Or is it Hong Kong Phooey... ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:06   Colour of choice - Crankcase

Silver. Had a bunch of those but usually because baby blue wasn't available rather than choice. Also said I liked running water. So they know about ageing bladders too. Spooky. Last edited by: Crankcase on Thu 17 Dec 15 at 22:07 Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:07   Colour of choice - legacylad

Mine said White. Never had a white car in my life, although I've owned several feisty Westies. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:11   Colour of choice - Armel Coussine

I did have a white car, an Escort 1600 estate, twin cam it claimed quite truthfully. Grotty looking motor but always went well. In the end I inherited a better car, an almost new Peugeot 205 diesel. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:14   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Cynically, I wonder if Ford have rather too many white cars in stock at the moment given the regularity with which its turning up... I also wonder if it's possible to answer the questions in such a way as to get 'beige'? I think it was JK Rowling that swung it for me... Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:26   Colour of choice - Armel Coussine

>> answer the questions in such a way as to get 'beige'? I had a beige Skoda Estelle four door saloon, 130 LSE or something, with a black vinyl roof. It was low-mileage, very quiet and went like a rocket. Something happened though, can't remember what, and it ended up in a breaker's yard in a pile of dead jalopies, as did all of my Skodas (and come to think of it, most of my other cars too). Nothing lasts for ever, especially Skodas driven flat out all the time. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 08:15   Colour of choice - Dog

Course, I didn't choose the colour of my Scoob as I bought it as a five year old jalopy and, although I like red cars, I think a more earthy colour wood :) be moor suitable for a Forester. I quite liked the colour of corax's first gen. Forester. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:19   Colour of choice - Manatee

Red, which is what I have. But when I bought it, there was a choice of red or silver. I would have taken the silver, but the boss pulled rank - she hates silver cars. How did they know that?! Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:20   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

I like red cars. I once had a red Westfield you know. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:21   Colour of choice - hjd

Quiz told me my car was silver. Actually, it's red. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:24   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Do you know Manatee? ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:25   Colour of choice - legacylad

You can buy a pair of Westfield wing mirrors off EBay and have change from £15. Dead easy to fit Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:27   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

I have actually fitted wing mirrors to a Westfield. ( can't actually say door mirrors due to the distinct lack of doors ) Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:30   Colour of choice - legacylad

Dare I ask who was driving at the time so that it needed the aforementioned fitted? Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:32   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

It didn't have any when I bought it. Last edited by: Runfer D'Hills on Thu 17 Dec 15 at 22:33 Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:42   Colour of choice - legacylad

Did you ever fit winter tyres to the Westfield? Didn't need em on my Elise. Too scared to take it out in inclement weather! Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 22:50   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

No I didn't, but I did once take it through Kielder forest on hard packed snow. Don't know if you still can, but you could pay something to take your car on the forest tracks back along. There was a ( very low ) speed limit but y'know, no one enforcing it... It was hilarious in the Westie. One of those best fun you can have with your trousers on sort of days ! Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 23:04   Colour of choice - legacylad

Strewth. That's impressive. I had very low ground clearance on my Mk1, and the roof was a pig to take on & off. Only that 1.8 K series engine but still the most fun I have ever had in polite society. Rather freaky but the R reg car plate ended in GYG. Five years later I ended up living in Giggleswick. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 23:12   Colour of choice - bathtub tom

Never bothered about colour, paint's the stuff that stops the metal corroding. Now on my third, consecutive, silver car. Once bought a car and couldn't, honestly tell SWMBO what colour it was. Had to drive past it for her to see. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 17 Dec 15 23:34   Colour of choice - Mike H

Nailed it for me with silver. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 00:02   Colour of choice - Ted

Told me I drove a red car....Hahahahaha. Hang on, I do. It has silver modesty skirts though. They didn't mention the black one ! Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 00:10   Colour of choice - Avant

White for me, saying that I'm 'rational and intelligent' (really?). I like white and have had white cars, but I'm just about rational and intelligent enough to know that, here in rural north Dorset, if I had a white car it would become piebald as soon as I drove on a wet country rod where there have been tractors. It was only about ten years ago (no, eleven, actually, when I got the Audi) that the salesman said 'Don't get a white one - they're clunkers and will be worth a lot less in a few years' time'. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 01:46   Colour of choice - VxFan

Says I drive a silver car. It's correct. My 3rd one in fact. "People who drive silver cars are likely to be gentle, people-oriented souls, according to psychologists." No, I drive a silver car because silver tends to stay cleaner longer and I don't have to wash it very often. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 08:31   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

True, VF, but when you do... ...The LEC is silver too, and has the magic combination of a rear end shaped to coat itself in muck and a generally enormous surface area, so it can wear a phenomenal amount of dirt. I'm not the world's most obsessively thorough car washer but it can take even me four buckets to get it acceptably clean. Most of our previous cars would look decent after one. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 08:34   Colour of choice - Zero

silver shrugs off the look of dirt better* and yes you are right That only means however that when you decide it looks dirty, by god its really really really dirty. *Has to be the right shade of silver tho. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 09:28   Colour of choice - Alanovich

Says mine is blue. Honest and well liked. Wrong. Well, on the colour it's wrong, I'll leave others to judge on the honest and well liked bit. It's silver. Actually, both are. But both bought used and I don't much care which colour a car is when buying used. I don't much care when new either, but the three times I've done that it's always been black. Not sure if it would be again though, and I would probably be minded to get blue (so long as it was a no cost option), so maybe the quiz thing is right. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 10:00   Colour of choice - Dog

>>I don't much care when new either, but the three times I've done that it's always been black. Which bringz us to the question of what car colour would we choose if we were going to buy a new car? I've only bought one new car in my life, and that wozza Citroen BX ... in white! In the unlikely event of me buying a new Forester, I would choose a nice? dark green colour so as to make it stand out from the flora and the fauna down here :) Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 10:33   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

Still wouldn't be a white one - although I like the sparkly, pearly whites you see on Lexuses and some BMWs. (I briefly considered a 220i with a red interior (gotta have some colour somewhere) before deciding first that I'd rather have Deep Sea Blue and then that the 220i is too small anyway. My 1989 Escort was new, and was a run-out model with no-cost metallic paint (and no-cost insurance - handy for a capital-strapped 21yo) so I went for Matisse Blue. Not sure Henri himself would have recognized it but it was very similar to the bright Estoril Blue BMW offers today on smaller M-sport models. I always thought it suited the sharp-edged shape of the Escort 3.5, and made an ordinary, dated car look a bit special - to me, anyway. Still see the odd one around and it makes me smile when I do. Conversely, the wrong blue can look awful. Volvo offers its smaller models in non-metallic Rebel Blue, which reminds me of the china blue that was a standard issue colour on 80s Escorts. Horrible, but mystifyingly popular. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 10:40   Colour of choice - tyrednemotional

...I once had a white Granada as a company car. A restricted choice, and limitation on budget meant I couldn't select many makes and couldn't stretch to metallic. It did serve to slow people down when I appeared in their rear view mirror. though. (Big barge of a thing; 2 litre petrol saloon actually, but it was comfortable, and I could get 38mpg on a long run. Not the best company car I've had by any means, (the V70 may have been that), but sometimes in retrospect I'm not sure that we've come as far over the last 25 years as we might otherwise think). Last edited by: tyrednemotional on Fri 18 Dec 15 at 10:40 Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 12:21   Colour of choice - Dog

>>It did serve to slow people down when I appeared in their rear view mirror. though Reminds me of a car I'd just tuned and was road testing once upon a time, long, long ago. It had one of those synthesiser things fitted under the dash where y'all could mimic many tones via the air horns. I just had to give it a go. Low and behold it was set up to sound like the old bill and, BOY did the jam jars get out of the way mucho pronto when I put that on as I was going around Westminster roundabout!! Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 13:05   Colour of choice - Clk Sec

Silver. Not owned a car that colour. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 13:41   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Did it again, trying not to remember what I put last time. Still says black. "You drive a black car - or you should - because, like others who drive black cars, you are a high achiever with a wide sphere of influence in both your professional and personal life." Blimey, really? Rock on! ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 13:42   Colour of choice - Alanovich

Lend us a tenner, Runfer. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 14:03   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

:-) Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 14:05   Colour of choice - Armel Coussine

We have a silver car because the car given to us by our rich nephew and niece is silver. I had a silver Renault at one time and my R Type Bentley was silver below the waistline and dark metallic graphite above it. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 14:16   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

Like this one, AC? www.omaghlimousines.com/wedding-cars-northern-ireland/1954-bentley-r-type How did you do traffic lights when everything was in black and white? Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 14:20   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Didn't matter, it was always foggy anyway. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 14:20   Colour of choice - Armel Coussine

Similar, but the one in yr picture is black over silver, not dark grey metallic. Mine didn't have red coachlines either. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 14:23   Colour of choice - Alanovich

I'll say one thing for Monty; he keeps a sensational cellar. Reply to this message | Report message       1

Fri 18 Dec 15 14:26   Colour of choice - CGNorwich

Sometimes its difficult to choose a colour. cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/phpthumbnails/155/155553/155553_1_800.jpeg Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 14:35   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

More like the one belonging to this Irish outfit, perhaps? Warning: you may be shocked by the company it's keeping. Baby Bentleys, indeed! www.absolutelimos.ie/fleet/ Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 18 Dec 15 16:00   Colour of choice - RichardW

Got it wrong for me - suggested white. Which mine is not, rather the opposite as it's dark blue. But then I have never chosen the colour of a car, I just buy whatever is available 2nd (usually more!) hand; but even if I did I would never chose white. Analysis of colours we have had, suggests a correlation with red, and it's quite possible if I were to chose I would have red (although I always wanted a BX in Olympic Blue, which was a light metallic colour). I've had White, red, dark grey, red, black, silver, dark blue. SWMBO has had red, green, dark blue, red, silver. So twice as many red cars as anything else! Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 19 Dec 15 10:28   Colour of choice - jc2

They got it wrong for me;I would not have bought the colour they suggested anyway but I got the colour I have because it was in stock and I could get it in a couple of days. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 20 Dec 15 10:02   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

My wife has just done the colour quiz and it came back with "you drive a black and red car" which is nearly correct in that she drives a car which is predominantly red but with black trim. I've done it for a third time ( well not really, I got my wife to answer my questions for me without my input ) and it still came back as black. Strangely accurate in our cases. Hey ho. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 20 Dec 15 10:17   Colour of choice - Zero

>> My wife has just done the colour quiz and it came back with "you drive >> a black and red car" which is nearly correct in that she drives a car >> which is predominantly red but with black trim. How kind you are, describing her black scrape marks as "trim" Much more of a gent and less of a MCP than you make out. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 20 Dec 15 10:23   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Heh heh, you're not entirely wrong there ! But it does have red bodywork contrasted with black bumpers, black side pod things, black door handles, black trim around the windows etc, and black door mirrors ( well, sometimes, when present anyway ) Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 20 Dec 15 10:55   Colour of choice - Skip

>>and black door mirrors ( well, sometimes, when present anyway ) >> I was going to say shouldn't that be in the singular ! Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 20 Dec 15 16:48   Colour of choice - Avant

That was the case, but now - choosing one's words carefully - a new one has been put in place. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 20 Dec 15 20:52   Colour of choice - mikeyb

Said white for me. I did own a white 405 SRi many years ago, but that was bought because it was £900, not because it was white. Not sure I really fancy a white car either Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 20 Dec 15 21:56   Colour of choice - Fullchat

If whites the new silver then they got it right :) Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 20 Dec 15 22:15   Colour of choice - Robin O'Reliant

I saw an 09 reg beige Fiesta the other day. Maybe they've changed the shade of beige since the 70's but I thought it looked very decent indeed. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 04:49   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

I think it's just an age thing RoR, you just start favouring beige things all of a sudden. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 06:46   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

A beige Volvo 240 saloon crossed 'my' bridge at work last week. The 240 looks splendidly fit for purpose in most colours; in beige, though, it looks like a cardboard box. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 07:16   Colour of choice - Dog

Pal o' mine had a beige 240 estate ... looked like a BIG cardboard box. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 07:07   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

...age...beige... ...or you could overcompensate and buy everything in black. No-one's going to see through that. };---) Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 20:14   Colour of choice - mikeyb

The much hated Fiat 500L I mentioned before was in hearing aid beige. I wonder if I would have liked it more if it was in a holly berry red, or christmas tree green? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 21:34   Colour of choice - Bromptonaut

>> The much hated Fiat 500L I mentioned before was in hearing aid beige. My first BX was that sort of shade bit definitely cream not beige :-) Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 22:17   Colour of choice - Manatee

I had an 1984 Escort in a colour that was actually called Coral Beige. Company car. We got two that day, good discounts. The other guy got there first, and grabbed the dark brown one. Not much in it really! Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 22:20   Colour of choice - Zero

>> I had an 1984 Escort in a colour that was actually called Coral Beige. Company >> car. We got two that day, good discounts. The other guy got there first, and >> grabbed the dark brown one. Not much in it really! here we go, ford coral beige s39.photobucket.com/user/dubdemand/media/3a17482e271bf1b051b214a7bd959128.jpg.html Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 23:01   Colour of choice - PeterS

For one not so glorious year, my parents had not one but two cars almost that colour. It was 1983...they'd just bought a new Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6L hatch in parchment (beige...) It was what was in the showroom, and was nicer than the Sierra. A year later my Dad got a company car. He chose a Cavalier Estate...not fussy about the colour. In went the order, up turned a Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL Estate...in parchment... :) It was replaced in 1985 by a far nicer Audi 100 Avant. Ahead of the trend; it was a white Audi 30 years ago ;) Blue velour trim and wind up windows...those were the days :p Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 23:33   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

Those parchment shades (something similar was among the launch colours for the Montego too) aren't really brown enough to be truly beige. Dull, but not properly offensive. Brown interiors, though - even brown plastic dashboards... Saab in the 1990s offered the 900 in 'Citrin Beige', which was a pale metallic gold, actually rather nice. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 21 Dec 15 23:41   Colour of choice - PeterS

Well interestingly (not...) the 'L' hatchback had a beige tweedy type cloth interior. The somewhat posher GL estate however had velour in 1980's dark brown ;) And I remember the Montego colour well; my Grandad had a Montego estate in that colur; it replaced a Maxi that was a darkish brown :o Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 08:11   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

Does anyone still offer velour, if not in the UK then maybe in other markets? The two-tone, honey-coloured velour in my 1998 9-3 was lovely and wore surprisingly well. There was a velour option for the S60 in 2002 too, but not on the seats I preferred; the smooth fabric was OK, though. The models I've looked at since then seem to assume that leather is the one and only proper choice, so if they offer fabric at all, it's black polyester punishment fabric designed to remind you that you took the skinflint option. Let's have some nicer fabrics, please. From the way a certain type on car forums boasts of his 'full leather' you might imagine leather interiors are universally wonderful. The Swedes do leather well, and the cream leather in the TDS is rather nice too. But the LEC's black hide appears to have been chosen for toughness rather than any tactile or visual appeal, while some Ford and Toyota leathers I've seen made me think even punishment fabric might have been preferable. Some makers even tacitly acknowledge that their leather isn't very nice by inviting customers to pay more for premium leathers - perforated, nappa and the like; not sure if anyone here has been pulled that way. Nice bit of velour would do just as well. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 09:30   Colour of choice - Bromptonaut

The last car I had with velour was my 2000/X Xantia. Hard wearing, shrugged off stains and looked like new when the car was collected by the scrapper at 13yrs/150k miles. Blue cloth in the 2005 Berlingo, while wearing OK, had a poor tolerance of spills and dirt. Plain water leaking from a drinking bottle left a tide mark. Soiled badly on the slight side bolsters of the seat cushions where they came into contact with hands. The black in the current 2013 version is better but also tide marks. Too early for a verdict on the Roomie as it was no doubt professionally deep cleaned before going on the forecourt. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 09:38   Colour of choice - sooty123

>> Does anyone still offer velour, if not in the UK then maybe in other markets? Yes still offered in the ME by far eastern manufacturers. I think the pick up truck's interior was red. Nice and comfy in fairness, although we didn't travel too far. Velour was pretty good in the heat never seemed to be too hot when you sat on it. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:04   Colour of choice - zippy

Ex ordered a new silver mark 1 Vauxhall Zafira in 2005, it was a run out model, fully kitted out. She ordered metallic silver. The car that arrived was battleship grey, which she hated. Dealer said "take it or leave it". She left it and got a VW Touran instead which was better equipped, drove better and only cost a little more. She still has it and the only major thing it has needed is a new ABS pump, though the front garters are now wearing. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:06   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

...front garters... I suppose these midi-MPVs need cheering up somehow. What would be the equivalent on a Zafira? Legirons? Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:09   Colour of choice - zippy

Gaiters - lol, auto-correct be dammed! Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:13   Colour of choice - Bromptonaut

>> Gaiters - lol, auto-correct be dammed! On a similar vein, for many years at least one of Quentin Willson's car books referred to a particular vehicle as pioneering the use of cardin shafts. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:07   Colour of choice - zippy

I love the feel of leather, but I come out in blister if my skin touches it for too long. Not good if in a t-shirt when driving long distances. It annoys me when manufacturers offer free leather upgrades, would rather a decent discount on a non leather model. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:14   Colour of choice - Alanovich

Leather is just another one of those things that people see as a status symbol without really thinking about it. Ooooo, leather, luxury! I prefer cloth/velour every time. And why people have leather furniture in their living rooms is a question I'll never be able to fathom. Nasty, squeaky, slippery, sweaty. My SAAB's got mostly leather seats, the front part of the squab is cloth but the rest leather. It's only bearable in the summer thanks to the air conditioning really. I don't think I'd ever countenance leather seats in a car without it (not that it's much of a problem these days, most cars do, but if the AC gave up and it was expensive to fix, it'd be a bit of a problem to me). Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:17   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

Could we get AC fixed, do you think? Oh, I see what you mean. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:24   Colour of choice - CGNorwich

"And why people have leather furniture in their living rooms is a question I'll never be able to fathom. Nasty, squeaky, slippery, sweaty." or Comfortable, good looking and easily maintained. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:27   Colour of choice - Alanovich

>> or Comfortable, good looking and easily maintained. >> The latter, maybe. The former two, not in a million years. This thread reminds me though, I must remove the sofa covers and put them through the wash before Christmas. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:41   Colour of choice - CGNorwich

"The latter, maybe. The former two, not in a million years." Perhaps applicable to those cheap sofas from one of those warehouses that are always having a sale and offer unlimited interest free credit. A decent Italian leather sofa with a semi aniline leather will look great and be comfortable too as well as being resistant to the grandchildren's sticky paws Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:50   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

Fair enough, CGN. There's also Ekornes furniture from Norway, which has a similar strokable quality to Volvo and Saab seats. Wears well too, if the pieces my parents bought in 1988 are typical. Leathers are not created - or treated - equal. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 11:05   Colour of choice - CGNorwich

Yes I almost bought an Ekornes sofa. Beautifully made. Was beguiled by Italian style in the end though. Sort of Alfa Romeo v Volvo Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:35   Colour of choice - legacylad

I have some thirty year + old leather sofas & arm chairs. Incredibly comfy, washable, and have been very durable. The only downside is having to treat them once a year with leather cream, but it only takes a few hours to do a thorough job. Bought in Harrods sale and part of my settlement with the ex ex! Leather in cars I can take or leave. My car has unheated leather, a pain in winter for the first few miles. They are however incredibly comfortable, multi adjustable, leccy three memory jobs. Never get too warm in summer, because the roof comes down! My old G reg Quattro had jacquard Satin which was ok, and the old 9000S had lovely Bridge of Weir leather seats. I would be more than happy to go back to fabric seats... If I ever bought a Gti it would have to be tartan fabric ( fond memories, thru rose tinted glasses, of my Mk1 ). Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:37   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

...and as you get older LL, they'll wipe clean if you have any little accidents... ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:41   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

Given your assertions below about preferring leather in cars for its wipability, Humph... Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:24   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

I really like leather seats in a car and deliberately seek out models with them fitted. Much harder wearing and wipe clean. Even the beige leather in my 150,000 mile current car looks like new with minimal care. Coffee spills, luggage and other work equipment being chucked in and out on a daily basis, muddy mountain bike gear in there most every weekend, all shrugged off. Wouldn't want cloth seats for that level of use. Granted they can be hot in the summer and cold in the winter but that effect only lasts for a matter of moments after sitting in them. Nothing to do with 'snob' value at all, no one in the next lane of the M6 at 05.30 knows or cares what I'm sitting on, and nor do I think very hard about what their backside is perched on. It's just about practicality for me. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:45   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Much easier to get dog hairs off leather too. Always supposing you let the dog drive that is. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:52   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

That must be true, Humph. The LEC's first owners evidently had a large, blond dog because we still find its hairs in the boot carpet, but never on the seats. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:54   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Maybe it didn't have a licence... Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 10:54   Colour of choice - Robin O'Reliant

This reminds me of the days of vinyl seats. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 11:12   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

Were dogs allowed to drive on those? We didn't have a dog at the time so I don't remember. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 11:16   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Dunno, 'eet was nut ma duwg'... Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 11:29   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

"I do not have a ridiculous dog." "Then whose dog is this?" Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 11:41   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

Reminds me of when our mutt was younger and a lot lairier, anyway, there's a canal towpath at the back of us where I often walk him. One day he got on a narrowboat when I wasn't paying enough attention and caused havoc, stole a cooked sausage, chased their cat throughout the boat, knocked stuff over, barking loudly, upper mayhem. The owner of the boat came topside, furious and chased him off. He shouted to me to ask if that was my blankety blank blanking dog!!!?? I kept calm and assured him it wasn't but that I knew where it lived and that I would take it home and convey his understandable chagrin to its owners... Reply to this message | Report message       2

Tue 22 Dec 15 11:47   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

"Utter" ( spellchecker ! ) Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 14:15   Colour of choice - Avant

I think Upper Mayhem sounds rather nice - a picturesque Hampshire village perhaps, with a fine view over Lower Mayhem. And a signpost up the road to 'The Mayhems'. Last edited by: Avant on Tue 22 Dec 15 at 14:16 Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 14:22   Colour of choice - Runfer D'Hills

I might change the name of my house to that now ! Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 14:22   Colour of choice - WillDeBeest

If it's Hampshire it should probably be Nether Mayhem. Fortunately downwind as well as downhill from the other village. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 14:38   Colour of choice - legacylad

I prefer Upper Ramsbottom in Lancashire Nothing new there.... Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 22 Dec 15 14:43   Colour of choice - Alanovich

>> I prefer Upper Ramsbottom People will certainly get that impression of you if you buy any Timberland products. Reply to this message | Report message