Visor decal solution
Racer
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If all that you are doing is putting up another faux carbon fibre sticker over the original spot, why even remove the old government sticker and risk damaging the visor. Just attach the CF sticker over the original one.
But seriously, who cares about a visor sticker. When I bought my 11 GS someone had tried to take the driver's side sticker off but left the passenger one on. The way the driver's side looked after his butchered attempt, was worse than the sticker. I ended up replacing the entire visor, with the sticker on it, to match the passenger side.
But seriously, who cares about a visor sticker. When I bought my 11 GS someone had tried to take the driver's side sticker off but left the passenger one on. The way the driver's side looked after his butchered attempt, was worse than the sticker. I ended up replacing the entire visor, with the sticker on it, to match the passenger side.
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If I could have gotten mine off and look like yours, would never have done the stickers. I used a dryer and 3m adhesive remover and never got anything other than wrinkled corners. The stickers are not coming off the micro suede with taking the fabric with them. GM changed something and made this much more difficult.
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You just spent $70 - $100K on a beautiful C7 Corvette so why not spend $300 and have the visors professionally recovered in leather or suede by a professional auto upholstery vendor if the stickers bother you that much and you can't remove them without damage?
Last edited by MSG C5; Jul 12, 2015 at 11:47 AM.
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Please do not presume to know how to best spend my money. It might not have occurred to you that avoiding frivolous spending is how I was able to afford a Ford GT and now a Z06. Buying one does not lend credence to spending further.
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Second, I'm not presuming anything. I provided a common sense suggestion as an option to messing up sun visors which will probably cost half as much to fix or cover with fake CF panels. Perhaps you and I just define frivolous spending differently.
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First, my post wasn't in response to your post but rather addressing the OP who apparently butchered his visors.
Second, I'm not presuming anything. I provided a common sense suggestion as an option to messing up sun visors which will probably cost half as much to fix or cover with fake CF panels. Perhaps you and I just define frivolous spending differently.
Second, I'm not presuming anything. I provided a common sense suggestion as an option to messing up sun visors which will probably cost half as much to fix or cover with fake CF panels. Perhaps you and I just define frivolous spending differently.
I used plain black vinyl with the crossed flags logo rather than the fake CF. It looks better to me than the bright yellow and white warning decals. I would have preferred to just peel them and have just the suade showing like the pic above but that did not work out. $10 for the decals was an inexpensive and decent looking fix. It was not a big deal until I mucked up the warning decal trying to get it off.
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My understanding is the European cars don't have those stickers. If that is the case, someone could have a nice business importing and selling the European spec visors to those who want the stickers gone.
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Love it!
Even though I never, ever look at my visors and get my panties in a wad, I do think I'd notice if you did this to them.
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Back at square one, less $200. I have not found any matching covers in suede. So I guess I live with decals. Actually it doesn't really bother me, but navigator was pitching a fit. The fit has now stopped.
