Best colour for avoiding stone chips?

[TheEdge]

Hi all

Just wondering if anyone noticed stone chips more on their R taking into consideration Black deep blue and silver as well as red (rare) ANTRACITE GREY AND MIDNIGHT BLUE colours just wondered as ive been debating this with friends and neeigbours, a friend across the road has a silver w reg gti mark 4 and ive noticed stone chips etc in the nose area of the car (he never washes his)my blue R ive noticed 2 small chips on the quarter but nothing severe but i know is there! maybe simple care and regular washing can avoid this, ive also thought maybe metallic black is the worst for stone chips but i maybe wrong on this and silver the best as scratches cant be seen etc, but too me a silver car IMO just looks like the car hasnt been painted just too plain and bare for my liking!!?

any ideas opinions

Deep blue r standard

[Gti_Fly]

Colour has very little to do with it tbh. All modern paints chip easily since modern paints are waterbased, which makes them relatively soft.

Colour only makes stone chips less or more noticeable, and the other factor is driving style.

[Tarmac_Terrorist]

Metalics used to chip and scratch easier than solids quite some years ago. I'm not sure but I think they've come a long way since then. I agree that driving style is the key factor in stone chips but maybe there is something between solid paints and metalics???

[Mook]

Silver is by far the best colour for not showing stone chips. Mrs Mook insisted on having a black Passat to replace the Allroad - I did warn her. But did she listen...?

[v6tas]

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Silver is by far the best colour for not showing stone chips.

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Have to agree as i have a few small stone chips but you have to really look to notice

[TheEdge]

thanks for this im rally noticing cars alot whatever colour the car is and they look especially with the summer warming up etc and some cars in need of wash (hose pipe ban pending)