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Old Aug 29, 2019 | 08:52 AM
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Is there a good vinyl wrap match to the carbon flash paint? Might be better than the $500 taped on rocker panels.
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Old Aug 29, 2019 | 09:13 AM
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I was asking my detailer about it and apparently there isn't a perfect match for it outside of GM, at least when he checked. I mean 3m et al can make you whatever color you want but you'd have to be buying insane amounts of it. Guessing GM pays one of those companies to make it for them in bulk.
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3M makes a very close match. Black Metallic I believe. search the C7 forum for the 3M #
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Old Aug 29, 2019 | 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by dfettero
Is there a good vinyl wrap match to the carbon flash paint? Might be better than the $500 taped on rocker panels.
Was thinking the same thing!
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Old Aug 29, 2019 | 02:48 PM
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3M 1080 G212 Gloss Black Metallic. I believe that is as close are you are going to get.
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Old Aug 29, 2019 | 02:59 PM
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Or Oracal 951 Metallic Black.
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Old Aug 29, 2019 | 03:26 PM
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Why not just paint them flash carbon,I wraped my C-5 total car with a carbon black wrap, faded in two years.Now more of a flat black.
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Old Aug 30, 2019 | 08:55 PM
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Thumbs up for this thread. Need to get that covered as soon as the car arrives.
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It's not really that close but I could find nothing closer.
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I used the 3M 1080 G212 gloss black metallic on the license area of my C8. So close a match that it looks like factory.

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