mineral grey!!

 

okay here's my vote for Brt Silver Met.

 

My vote is for Mineral Grey. It looks good dirty, but GREAT clean. You won't even know how dirty it is until you go to wash it. Every time I start washing my truck I am amazed at how filthy it really is. Every day I walk out to my truck I am happier than the day before that I chose Mineral Grey over Electric Blue (my previous choice).

 

The mineral gray looks nice however it definitely shows scratches pretty bad. My buddy has a nice mineral gray 04.

White is the best when it comes to scratches and dust. Silver doesn't show dust and scratches look minimal. The light blue and red are similar when it comes to scratches and dust(not as good as white, better then darker colors). The darker, the worse it is.

 

Your buddy, unless his truck was repainted, has a Dark Graphite Metallic truck, not a Mineral Grey Metallic. Mineral Grey was not offered in '04. Dark Graphite is a darker color than Mineral Grey and does show scratches more. My rockers are getting pretty chewed up from the roads I drive on complemented by my tire width but, unless you are right on top of the rock chips while polishing the rockers, you can't see them. When I just get done cleaning my truck you would be hard pressed to find ANY imperfections in my paint unless I show them to you and that is with 21760 hard miles of caliche, mud, sand, brush, and oil-field driving.

As far as white being the easiest to keep clean, being a long time white-vehicle owner, i have to disagree. I put white right in front of black and dark blue as the HARDEST to keep clean. It doesn't show swirl marks or light clear coat scratches much but DEFINATELY shows nearly every speck of dirt that gets on it. Im not sure where you live where all the dirt and dust in the air is white but ANYTHING of any color against a white background shows up.

 

bronco, your truck is AWESOME! very nice man... i like the mineral grey but my best friend has that color 03 2500 ctd.... so i think im going to try and find a silver met, or a black 06 or 07 6 speed 5.9L 4x4 short bed QC laramie or slt.
thanks alot for all the pics guys.

 

Again Mineral Grey wasn't offered in '03 so your buddies truck is actually the darker Graphite Metallic Clearcoat color. It's all semantics anyway, grey is grey. I like the silver metallic as well, just won't own another black truck (i tell myself that every time i sell one of my black vehicles). If you are looking for flashy, I don't think there is a better looking color, when clean, than the Electric Blue. Im not one for flashy colors on work trucks but that sure is a pretty color.

 

Mineral Grey Metallic

 

It looks pretty close. Didn't know they didn't offer the mineral gray.

Anyways the gray definitely looks good.

With the stuff that happens to trucks white is nice.

I wish I had white. I can deal with silver, light blue, gray or red though.

I had Dark Garnett Red on my 01 and it was a PIA to keep it looking good!

 

Metallic Grey then White

 

agreed, white is the best! I'm on my 3rd and 4th white trucks right now...

I freakin' LOVE the base model wheels on that truck!

my white '04:

 

Saw a Graphite metallic half ton at wal-mart today so i pulled up next to it and snapped a couple of shots. Both of these trucks are filthy due to the thunder storms for the past 3 days and much of the distinction is lost in the photograph but you can still clearly see the difference.

 

Better give the Electric Blue Pearlcoat some representation.

Greg

 

I'm liking that truck! That looks good...

--Eric

 

i vote for brt silver metallic you can not wash it for months and it hardly shows it.