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Old 09-18-2006, 04:40 PM
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Does anyone sell leather sun visors to replace the black material ones?
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I haven't seen any, but if you call vette essentials they may be able to fix you up....
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Funny- I was thinking about this as a "next" mod. Matt from VE e-mailed me last week and said that they can't do it right now because of the wiring. John Caravaggio does; I will call him soon to have him do these for me (I have bought two sets of his seats this year and know that they will be first rate). I think the price was somewhere around $550-$600 so it obviously is not a cheap thing to do (in other words, you have to really hate the fuzzy cloth stock ones)!!!
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Here are mine (in leather).





I had Vette Essentials send me additional leather (matching the seat colors).

Took the sun visors off and had a local shop remove the OEM material, and install the VE leather.

Then, I found a local guy that does interior dye for vehicles. He came to the house and taped off the edges - then dyed the edges with the highlight colors.

Total cost: less than $100/Vette

Hope this helps.

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As a note - I have the Home Link in each Vette (on the visor).

If you do not have this option already, get it done BEFORE the change over to leather.

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Actually, I pulled an old price list from Caravaggio. They're listed at $475. That's better, huh
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Originally Posted by TOOGECKO
Actually, I pulled an old price list from Caravaggio. They're listed at $475. That's better, huh
No - that is a rip off

I do hope they are wearing a mask when they take customers money for these
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Originally Posted by AC54ME

Nice rides!
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Hey Dennis I must say, as good as I am at noticing details, I totally missed those when I saw the cars.

VERY cool touch!

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Tom,

So much was going on at the time it is understandable.

How you doing?

Originally Posted by Y2Kvert4me
Hey Dennis I must say, as good as I am at noticing details, I totally missed those when I saw the cars.

VERY cool touch!

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