Quote Originally Posted by boocher13 View Post
Just a quick question from a noob that's been looking for his first vx for almost a year now. Is the cladding on all cars regardless of color, supposed to be the same color? I've only been able to look at 1 in person but the reason I ask is a few I've seen on eBay and craigslist the cladding looks gray, almost too gray to have been faded from black. Seems kaiser models this stands out most where the cladding doesn't contrast the body color much.
I imagine it's a simple matter of visual contrast. Using your own example, if the cladding on a Kaiser has "grayed" a little, the amount of contrast between the charcoal gray paint color and the cladding color isn't going to look as pronounced as it would if it were on an Ebony. That would be the baseline to consider first in my opinion, with multiple variations in the products used for cladding care by previous owners accounting for most of the other differences you've seen.