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What really irritated me is that the person has no idea about what they're talking about. - The color most closely tied to this trend is Nardo Grey, to that po
by BoorishBears 4y ago
What really irritated me is that the person has no idea about what they're talking about.
- The color most closely tied to this trend is Nardo Grey, to that point that cars that don't come from the brand that brought it out (Audi) still get referred to by that name: https://touchupdirect.com/blog/what-is-nardo-grey/ https://touchupdirect.com/blog/what-is-nardo-grey/
- It already has a more suitable disparaging name than "wet putty look", it's the "primer look": Because the cars look like someone covered them in primer, then clear coat, and skipped the paint to save a few bucks. Of course that's not actually how or why it's done, but if you're going to write an article with half empty angst about it, at least use the one insult that actually kind of checks out.
- Murdered-out doesn't mean "matte black" at all, it just means most of the car's parts were made black (by tinting/plastidip/wrap/paint, etc), regardless of if it's a metallic black, flat black, or matte black. They kept on using such a simple to look-up term wrong and it just really grated my nerves each time.
There's a bunch of smaller things that just scream "I googled a bunch of random words, didn't quite get the meaning, but I'm still going to act like I know a lot about this".
- giraffe_lady 4y agoidk where you run but in my city murdered out absolutely means all matte black finish and has for years. I don't care what urban dictionary says or whatever that's how it's used in person out there, so this read correct to me.
- BoorishBears 4y agoPeople who murder out cars with matte black wrap all the time, but people also murder out cars that already black by adding black wheels, wrapping the trim and slapping on 5% tint all the time. Call it being cheap? I've never been in a city where isn't a "murdered out M5" (except maybe if someone wants to gatekeep because they didn't black out the actual M5 badge): https://i.ytimg.com/vi/15PsYVXhMgE/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/15PsYVXhMgE/maxresdefault.jpg
- seacarrot 4y agoLike many things in life the difference between a murdered out car and just a black car is in the details. a matte black car without tinted windows is just a black car.
- uni_rule 4y agoWould you consider a factory Grand National or Marauder "murdered" or would such cars also need tinted everything?
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- AlanYx 4y ago>What really irritated me is that the person has no idea about what they're talking about. Absolutely... I'm also surprised no one seems to be commenting about how he's just kind of wrong in the technical explanation. He says "flake" is "the tiny metallic flecks that car manufacturers have been mixing into paint for decades" and that new cars have less "flake". But that's kind of wrong... the type of cars he's complaining about generally have mica/pearl flecks, which are ceramic/silicate, not metallic. Mica/pearl paints are a little less flashy to the eye than metallics, and manufacturers have dialled down the amount of mica just a little in addition to that.