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Old 04-30-2016, 07:15 PM
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Just took delivery of my white Z51 convertible. The car has the "carbon flash" full length racing stripe option. Wish I'd have read things more carefully, I thought I was getting stripes with a "carbon fibre" appearance, instead, I just paid $950 for black metallic stripe decals. Whatta rip....
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I like the carbon flash badging on the white.


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Take 'em off.
I know that is not what you want to hear but if you don't like them then every time you get into your car you will be reminded that the stripes are not as you envisioned them to be. Search the aftermarket, there is sure to be someone who makes a carbon fiber look a like stripe that may fit what you want.
Yeah, the carbon flash badging looks great on white, but what the heck does that have to do with the OP's post?
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Originally Posted by Vettrocious
Just took delivery of my white Z51 convertible. The car has the "carbon flash" full length racing stripe option. Wish I'd have read things more carefully, I thought I was getting stripes with a "carbon fibre" appearance, instead, I just paid $950 for black metallic stripe decals. Whatta rip....
Black metallic is better than fake carbon fiber vinyl. At least it matches the rest of the dark accents on the car.
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Sorry about the bad 'surprise', but you should post up a few pictures.

I've seen a few AW C7s with the CF stripe package and think it's a killer combination. I'll be it will grow on you after the initial surprise wears off - hope it does.
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i think the carbon flash is fantastic. Wait until the sun hits it.
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Originally Posted by SK360
Black metallic is better than fake carbon fiber vinyl. At least it matches the rest of the dark accents on the car.
^^^ This
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Have that section painted.
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Originally Posted by rcooper
Take 'em off.

Yeah, the carbon flash badging looks great on white, but what the heck does that have to do with the OP's post?
There is a good chance that he has carbon flash somewhere else on the white vette, and it matches perfectly. Or he may add more carbon flash parts later.
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Its not that the carbon flash stripes look bad, they're fine, but I probably could have had them painted on for half that price, if I knew "carbon flash" meant plain metallic black black. I wanted the fiber look, so its a little disappointing. Not a big deal though, I like the car, it has much different appearance than the black 2014 coupe I had...


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why not simply apply 4D carbon fiber vinyl directly over the 'flash' stripe? $50 for a huge blanket size section of this wrap material on the bay of E.
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Would you really prefer a bumper to bumper stripe that looks like carbon fiber?
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Originally Posted by Vettrocious
Its not that the carbon flash stripes look bad, they're fine, but I probably could have had them painted on for half that price, if I knew "carbon flash" meant plain metallic black black. I wanted the fiber look, so its a little disappointing. Not a big deal though, I like the car, it has much different appearance than the black 2014 coupe I had...


I think it looks good, I also have a white 15 without the stripe, I would keep it.

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