10-10-2014, 02:29 PM
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On the slippery slope
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Originally Posted by peterbrown77
Because it looks better body color, hahah. Okay, so I've got a Volvo wagon for my son. He has the V70 SE - painted trim. Banged it up last summer, I bought a door and fender of the same color and hung them. Unfortunately, the trim was not painted on the replacement parts.
What it is good for though is a side-by-side comparison between painted and unpainted trim. Now, honestly - which looks better? (Yeah, it's a bad angle).
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well we all know what opinions are like, and we all have them LOL
I have Arctic Silver and I much prefer black bumperettes, it gives it some contrast
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Last edited by JayG; 10-10-2014 at 02:32 PM.
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10-10-2014, 03:21 PM
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No ones going around trying to paint the tires. I like a touch of black on a car.
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10-10-2014, 03:50 PM
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On the slippery slope
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Originally Posted by Giller
No ones going around trying to paint the tires. I like a touch of black on a car.
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that made me laugh 
They do odd colors on wheels though
She is a really good driver by the way
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10-10-2014, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by JayG
that made me laugh
They do odd colors on wheels though
She is a really good driver by the way
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I love the PORSCHE along the side....and hey - they did a bumperette delete!
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10-10-2014, 06:07 PM
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On the slippery slope
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Originally Posted by Giller
I love the PORSCHE along the side....and hey - they did a bumperette delete!
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her car is corner balanced as well
Who said a Boxster isn't a chick car?
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10-11-2014, 04:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Giller
No ones going around trying to paint the tires. I like a touch of black on a car.
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Yeah, well - to each his own I guess lol. To my eye, black bumperettes (like unpainted trim on other mfr's models) make it look like Porsche was trying to save a buck.
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10-11-2014, 04:29 AM
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Originally Posted by peterbrown77
Yeah, well - to each his own I guess lol. To my eye, black bumperettes (like unpainted trim on other mfr's models) make it look like Porsche was trying to save a buck.
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Oh, there's no doubt that it was a huge cost saver for Porsche - might be the reason. But, it is a bumperette. The whole point of them is so that if you bump into something, they are your early warning system and will save you actually hitting your bumper. So keeping them black helps hide scuffs and bumps, whereas painted, you will be able to see every time you've backed into something. So there is some practicality to keeping them black.
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10-11-2014, 05:27 AM
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Originally Posted by JayG
well we all know what opinions are like, and we all have them LOL
I have Arctic Silver and I much prefer black bumperettes, it gives it some contrast
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Since this has now become a bumperette thread, I thought I would toss in my opinion, backed by visual data.
For your consideration:
Unpainted
Painted
My preference is to see them painted on lighter-colored cars such as my arctic silver, but unpainted looks fine on dark colors. The term that comes to mind when I look at a light-colored car with painted bumperettes is "clean." I would also remind everyone that Porsche started painting bumperettes on the 987.
Also, the Boxster prototype didn't have anything to mar the clean rear bumper:
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