GREY, WTF ????

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kam-325i
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:13 pm

Ok heres one for you......

What color would you say my car is (in sig). just the basic, black, blue, red, green........


Why would the bloke who has just passed my car for an MOT put it down as GREY ???????

I have lost all faith in him as a tester !!!!
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:16 pm

What else has he missed winkeye
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:18 pm

better a blind tester than one which sees problems not there..........
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:18 pm

He had failed it on front tyre, Handbrake and front number plate.
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:20 pm

:oops: sorry.
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:22 pm

But to say its GREY !!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOO...............

A grey E30 looks cak.
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:37 pm

even dolphin grey???? 8O
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:38 pm

hmm i think its daimantschwarz-metallic :)
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:42 pm

as AronJarl said above!

Mine is the same colour,Met Black but is on the log book and MOT as Grey :mad:
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:42 pm

i think your car colour from the pic looks like a Lamborgini yellow :clap:
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:42 pm

Conan wrote:even dolphin grey???? 8O
Dolphin grey is closer to silver, a nice metalic, very nice colour. But i mean a horrid flat grey, there is one that parks next to mine.

And yep, mine is Diamondschwatzmetalicthingyniceandshiny.........
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:47 pm

i reckon Diamond schwartz fella

glad you said delphin nice :twisted:
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:54 pm

My first car was a Silver MKII Golf. The tester (at a franchised dealership no less) put the colour down as white on the certificate :roll:

Dumb.

As.

Flumps.

Of course, I laughed.

And then told him to write me a new one from memory (aprt from the colour). Now Silver is actually much more easily mistaken for white than black is (yeah, really) but you'd think that a VW technician of ~10yrs experience would get that right?

Numpties.
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:56 pm

what colour is your car then coz if its white thats a rubbish story :lol:
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:57 pm

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:thumb:
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:36 pm

I would say black
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:41 pm

Take it back and make him do another certificate for free! :)
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:20 pm

kam-325i wrote:A grey E30 looks cak.
take that back you fiend
there is nothing wrong with a grey e30
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:24 pm

I would not call that grey, even if it was, its metalic.

It looks like it has a hint of blue in there somewhere.

I will post up a pic of the grey E30 that parks on the same car park as me.
it is really nasty, it looks like moulded plastic.......
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:29 pm

Mine is metallic black, and has been called black, diamond black, met black, grey and graphite on various mot's!! 8O
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bmwe30mtech wrote:Mine is metallic black, and has been called black, diamond black, met black, grey and graphite on various mot's!! 8O
so it must be quite common then.......
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:12 pm

mine was diamond shwarz, then resprayed in dolphin grey ( Love that colour.. but need Mtec on it) and MoT goes black grey black......WTF??
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:56 pm

Here is the pic of the said offending, poor little grey E30.

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Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:59 pm

That IS grey!
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:05 pm

kam-325i wrote:Here is the pic of the said offending, poor little grey E30.

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err dude that is grey and so what, it's got an MOT 8)
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:07 pm

I know it is grey, but mine is black.
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:16 pm

so whats the pic of............... :mad:
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:19 pm

kam-325i wrote:I would not call that grey, even if it was, its metalic.

It looks like it has a hint of blue in there somewhere.

I will post up a pic of the grey E30 that parks on the same car park as me.
it is really nasty, it looks like moulded plastic.......
It's a pic of a grey car that parks near his.... Doh!
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:oops:
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'92 Alpine White e30 318iS Touring
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'54 Cosmos Black e61 535d MSport Touring
'07 Sapphire Black e61 M5 Touring

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