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Old Mar 20, 2020 | 11:31 AM
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Love Exterior Orange configuration. Wish option for orange seat stitching
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Originally Posted by ttexxan
Love Exterior Orange configuration. Wish option for orange seat stitching
ttexxan…..if you want to take the time, there is a solution. my current C7 is Sebring Orange w/ Black interior....the stitching is white....like it is in all of the black interiors. you can dye the stitching with fabric pens. I saw this on another forum....and bought 2 of the pens they suggested (got them off amazon) and it took about 2 hours to do the whole interior. that was 2 years ago and still looks great. AND my vette was daily driven for 2 straight years.

using these pens, which look kind of like felt tip markers....you rub the stitching about 6-8 inches at a time then using a soft clean towel wipe off the leather, then continue.
the picture below was a red marker, but the ones I actually used were ORANGE....they were available in a rainbow of colors.





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I had seen this on the other forum and plan to do the same thing. I am planning to paint my calipers orange too.
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Looks more yellow to me and that’s the issue. How are you going to color match markers to your paint or seat belts?
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Originally Posted by WGGS
Looks more yellow to me and that’s the issue. How are you going to color match markers to your paint or seat belts?
Also wanting color match direction stripe on the steering wheel. Guess cant have it all.
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I don't want to be first but if anyone does it and it looks good I might do it to... Saw a yellow with yellow stitching on black at the San Diego auto show... The accelerate yellow isn't for me, but the yellow stitching on black seats looked dope.
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Originally Posted by ttexxan
Also wanting color match direction stripe on the steering wheel. Guess cant have it all.
I saw on FB an option for the directional on the steering wheel and surprisingly it looked as close to factory as you’ll get. Guy went to his local sign shop and they matched the belts with a gloss orange material and striped the wheel. If u look at any plain wheel that directional area is a separate piece and they placed the splice on the underside of the wheel with the strip. Looked really good.
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