What is with black interiors?

[fdcg27]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Originally Posted By: fdcg27
My guess is that it's cheaper to have one standard interior color, so that's what you'll find these days.


Most likely it hides stain better so when a lease / rental turns into a CPO, it will fetch more value.


IOW, cheaper than having a proper interior detail done on a used car offered for sale.

 

[miden851]

give me a vehicle with white exterior paint along with beige cloth seats and wind deflectors on windows and ill be driving it comfortably without AC on all summer long in hot Georgia's weather!

 

[Nick1994]

Originally Posted By: supton

Sorta shopping. I'm realizing my truck gets driven just on the weekends (although I splurged and drove it to work today). We're trying really hard to get my son a mobility dog, and they run in Great Dane size, so put two teens, a Dane and a beagle into the backseat of a Camry... My son has problems climbing into my truck. Ergo, it just doesn't make sense anymore.

Found this 2013 that I'm tempted to look at. Stripper model, but I'm cheap like that. No backup camera, no Bluetooth so that gives me pause. Steel wheels is a plus, and if I'm not mistaken, they're 17" so that means HD brakes? so that is a plus. No rear a/c to break--you know me, I'm a luddite at heart.

I was going to look even older, but, given his condition, electric doors makes sense. Despite how much I dislike the idea of having to fix them, eventually.
Looks pretty good, it's also got stow-n-go seats.

Not sure if you know, 2011-2013 Pentastar 3.6L's had some head issues, which were resolved for the 2014 year. Some were replaced under warranty and they had a couple versions with improvements but not 100% solved until 14'

Not sure how to determine if they have the HD brakes, steel wheels might mean regular brakes? I don't know.

I think there's a button up front on the ones with sliding electric doors that turns off the electric feature, and you can open the door manually.

 

[supton]

Didn't look like stow and go to me? Thought I saw a post, here or elsewhere, that said 16" wheels was a give-away to non HD brakes, was hoping someone could verify that. But you're right, I had forgotten about the head issue, hmm. Mostly I wanted to know if it was a good price. $10k is asking (who knows actual) for 84k miles, I just don't keep up and perhaps that's just too much.

 

[JTK]

Originally Posted By: supton
So I'm poking around, looking at Dodge Caravans, and noticing that they all seem to be black interior. What is with this trend? I realize it's probably cheaper to stock one color of material, but all black, all the time? is this the reason for road rage--people feel like they are hiding in a cave all the time? Maybe I'm looking at the wrong vehicles (cheap ones).

Since I'm stuck, how bad will dog hair show up on a black interior? And will a DGC with only front AC do ok for cooling the entire interior?



We put ~70K miles on our 2013 DGC that was silver with black interior and you're right.. All the ones I looked at when we bought it new had black interior. It doesn't hide pet hair well unless it's black. LOL.

The HVAC systems in these vans could heat or cool a house. The problem is, without rear HVAC, to get a lot of cool air to the 3rd row, the front passengers are going to be cold.

If you don't keep people or pets in the 2nd and 3rd row often, no rear HVAC will save you a lot of headaches as the van ages IMO.

Yes, 16" wheels will be the non-HD brakes. They won't fit under 16s. Problem is, not all 17" wheels will be HD brakes. You need to look carefully or buy one that is ~2014+

 

[Patman]

One of the big reasons I factory ordered my Corvette was because I really wanted the gray interior and dealers barely ever order that color (and when they do it's never on the red cars) Most dealers just stick with black but it's way too hot in the summer, gray doesn't get nearly as hot, plus I like the look of it so much better:

 

[Nick1994]

Originally Posted By: supton
Didn't look like stow and go to me? Thought I saw a post, here or elsewhere, that said 16" wheels was a give-away to non HD brakes, was hoping someone could verify that. But you're right, I had forgotten about the head issue, hmm. Mostly I wanted to know if it was a good price. $10k is asking (who knows actual) for 84k miles, I just don't keep up and perhaps that's just too much.
Yeah they're stow-n-go, bucket seats for the 2nd row, and the folding headrest, they fold into the floor.

The ones that aren't stow n go have a bench seat in the middle.

 

[supton]

Found a VIN decoder, says it is 12" brakes, which another search says are not HD brakes. Oh well. Might as well hold out for a 2014 then.