So...just drive the car instead of cleaning it?

A dirty car isn't less enjoyable to drive.

Who is making you HAVE to keep it absolutely clean? Just voices? Medication for that is cheaper than a wrap, in'it?

It doesn't sound like you dislike black as a color...but it sounds like you're obsessing if the car gets dusty? Have you tried just not looking at it?

It would be different if you just didn't like black as a color...but...as you said...

A wrapped car doesn't look nearly as good as paint. So...its not like wrapping it is going to make it look visually cleaner. So...you'll probably want to practice not looking at it anyway.

Have you seen this car in a pearl white wrap? I have. Its terrible.

I guess I don't understand the thought process....

But its your car.

I also don't understand the original question.
Peel off the wrap when its time to sell.

Why is everyone answering as if you need to keep the wrap on the car when you sell?

Its going to cost like $2-3K for a good wrap. You'll lose that, I guess.

 

In a kinder, gentler way ..


Any colour gets dirty.

As an owner of a pearl white car (well...its my wife's car), there is a massive difference between clean and dirty. Sure, you don't see light dust as strongly as you do against black. But if you're the type of person to obsess anyway...you're still gonna see its dirty.

Blue gets dirty too.

Any colour or car with an impact to the eyes will appear to have a bigger delta between clean and dirty.

A beige 92 Camry looks the same whether its been white glove'd or driven through literal feces. But nobody stops to go "WOW look at how clean" or "DAMN look at how dirty". It just...exists.

 

It turns out white is a great color to have in hot climates. Wildfires notwithstanding, Sacramento and the valley can get pretty hot. A car sitting in the sun is really hot. You can actually burn yourself touching a black car in the dog days of summer here. A black interior on a black car is hell on earth. I use a sun shade (store it behind the pax seat flat) to keep my black S interior cool while parked in the sun. My wife's Benz GLE 450 is pearl white. My daughter's inherited (purchased from us) MDX is pearl white. My 02 Tacoma is white. My 99 Grand Cherokee is off white. Only the S is Pearl Yellow. All will show the dirt as B Serious opined but it is to a smaller degree. I like clean cars so I wash them and use a California duster often for just that: dust. When I see a black car it either looks great (clean) or terrible (dirty) No middle ground.

I might add that using a good quality anti-UV film (3M) on the inside of the windscreen and sides of the S do a remarkable job of keeping things cool without any real tinting (unless you want it)

 

Black has enough demand to sell the car and buy what color you want. Especially since this car was recently purchased and has no nostalgic attachment; it's just another blacj S2000.

-- Chuck

 

Ohh boy. I am not sure how this ended up as sell the car and buy another one as I am not looking into doing so.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will wrap the car and remove it when it is time to sell.

Thanks!

 

lol No S2000 is just another S2000

 

Selling it to buy another doesn't seem like that much of a stretch (there are others out there who actually do love black cars who might be willing to pay more for it than you did). It's one thing to feel indecisive about a car's color but dishing out the money for a car in a color that you can't stand sounds like it is bound to lead to all sorts of mental dilemmas for you. Before doing anything else at this point you should ask yourself just what exactly your plans are for the car. If you were willing to compromise to that degree just to obtain a low-mileage example, then up next will be whether or not you can actually bring yourself to drive the thing and therefore wind up with a not-so-low-mileage car that in reality is painted in a color that you can't stand. I'm not trying to be difficult, it's just that your situation is a new on on me. Good luck figuring it out.

 

In your OP you literally state you will never sell the car. Then go on asking a question about value retention. Wut?

 

I'll be curious:

1. The cost to have the car professionally wrapped. This ain't no DIY for my skills, I can't even get window tint right!
2. How bad/good it looks especially with the doors, hood, and trunk open.

-- Chuck

 

First, if you wrap, get the shop to take a bunch of pics of the car right before wrapping so you have at least some info on how the car looked without the wrap. I mean a seller can always fake these things but at least you have some proof of the condition pre-wrap.

The car I co-drive is wrapped, and I will say, it does not look as good as you are thinking 5 years later. The hood has these micro crack looking lines all over it from heat. A lot of the car looks fine, but the hood is the worst part. I am not sure what the lifespan of wrapping is supposed to be, and the car I am talking about is an ND miata which only is driven at autocross events (never sees daily use and has only 12,000 miles on it with all of that being on a track or autocross course since new) so it is not much of a concern, but if you wanted a nice painted look just remember it does not age as well of course. Now, he probably does not take as much care to keep it perfect being it is a purpose built car, but just some input. As far as we know, the company that bought it new to develop parts for it wrapped it as soon as they got it so that would have been brand new. Its a 2016 so I assume it has been wrapped since late 2015 sometime to give a gauge of the age.