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Old Mar 14, 2021 | 04:35 PM
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With a fine point marker you can touch it to the stitch and you can watch the ink travel through the stitch. Uchida Marvy fine point fabric marker is another brand recommended by in someone's comments. If you do this start in the least visible area to make sure it looks okay.


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Old Mar 14, 2021 | 04:57 PM
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Not exactly a close up but it pops in the sunshine:
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I have seen a few brands of pens mentioned here. Are their any other brands people are using, or brands they would not recommend?
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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 08:37 AM
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Anyone have a suggestion on the best red pen to use? Has anyone experienced fading over time?
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I used a artist loft pen on a Toyota. It look good until it faded. I than used a Uchida Marvy Cherry color on the same thread. Their red was on the light side. The cherry is a darker red than the C8. It has only been about a month and the color has not faded so far. It looks good but is not as bright as the C8 red stitching.
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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by HKH
I used a artist loft pen on a Toyota. It look good until it faded. I than used a Uchida Marvy Cherry color on the same thread. Their red was on the light side. The cherry is a darker red than the C8. It has only been about a month and the color has not faded so far. It looks good but is not as bright as the C8 red stitching.
I wonder if it matches red mist well being a darker red
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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 09:01 AM
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I have a Red Mist 3lt with black interior and red stitching. The Cherry uchida color is a little darker. It would look fine, just not as flashy as the factory red.
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I have used a product called Stained by Sharpie on my car stitching before and it works well. It is a fabric pen and was available at Hobby Lobby.
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I see on the pix with factory red stitching the floor mat stitching is not red - it is white.

I think the mats would look good with red stitching as well.

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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Sallye M
I see on the pix with factory red stitching the floor mat stitching is not red - it is white.

I think the mats would look good with red stitching as well.

Not sure which interior you saw a picture of, but I got the 3LT black interior with red stitching. The floor mats are stitched red and they look great. Not sure if that is different for other interiors with red stitching (adrenaline red 2LT for example).
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Originally Posted by WardNH
Not sure which interior you saw a picture of, but I got the 3LT black interior with red stitching. The floor mats are stitched red and they look great. Not sure if that is different for other interiors with red stitching (adrenaline red 2LT for example).
Pix I refer to in this thread are from 19vette

Looks like a 1LT so that's why no red stitching on the floor mats I guess.
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From my research it seems the stained by sharpie red pen is the closest to factory red stitch.
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Just delivered yesterday and I love the red on red with red stitching in this 1LT HTC. I think the colors work great together and I love that this config doesn’t have the annoying red accents on the dash that you get with 2LT. The car is amazing and the 1LT GT1 look and feel is top shelf. I would build it the same way again at $73k MSRP, and save money for aftermarket wheels and performance mods.




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Old Aug 31, 2021 | 12:37 AM
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Looks like this may be on the “to-do” list. Having a tough time wrapping my brain around taking a marker to the car though!
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