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Why do all the vendors make that tacky carbon fiber interior parts(my opinion).
They should be making color coordinated leather accents to match the color of the car. It would make the interior look much better. Anyone know a vender that makes leather accents interior parts?
The purpose of carbon fiber is to save weight. A lot of people buy this stuff and put it on top of the part they are covering up. That adds more weight and totally negates the purpose of carbon fiber. Some marketing genious is laughing all the way to the bank.
The purpose of carbon fiber is to save weight. A lot of people buy this stuff and put it on top of the part they are covering up. That adds more weight and totally negates the purpose of carbon fiber. Some marketing genious is laughing all the way to the bank.
Yeah really adding a lot of weight with these interior carbon fiber pieces I'd venture you could cover the entire interior with carbon fiber trim and add not more than 2 lbs.
OP - order the leather yourself and have at it. www.relicate.com. I've covered nearly all the interior plastic pieces in my Z06 with Alcantara.
Yeah really adding a lot of weight with these interior carbon fiber pieces I'd venture you could cover the entire interior with carbon fiber trim and add not more than 2 lbs.
OP - order the leather yourself and have at it. www.relicate.com. I've covered nearly all the interior plastic pieces in my Z06 with Alcantara.
Right.
I covered all the silver parts in my ZL1 in CF. I just don’t care for the silver plastic look. All of it maybe weighed over 1lb.
i would have liked to have found one with the stealth interior option, but that didn’t happen.
Yeah really adding a lot of weight with these interior carbon fiber pieces I'd venture you could cover the entire interior with carbon fiber trim and add not more than 2 lbs.
OP - order the leather yourself and have at it. www.relicate.com. I've covered nearly all the interior plastic pieces in my Z06 with Alcantara.
Even adding 2 pounds proves my point. Carbon fiber's advantage is weight savings. The marketing genius still wins.
Worse i have seen is a yellow car and the owner replaces anything they can unbolt /un snap /pry off with yellow inside nor do i like the carbon fiber look along with just about all the lic um stik um junk . The chrome and billet look gets cheapened too but its their car to do or not do
I did find on E-Bay or Amazon a leather covered waterfall - stiching, color, etc options around @ $300.
Yet other typical panels replaced/ overlaid with CF, not so many leather options.
Porsche seems to have OEM leather accents on switches and many more items.
Not sure what could be leather trimmed in a C8.
The 3LT has many areas in leather or alcantara.
The speaker covers, door locks, dash surround.... items the stealth and cf option alters.
The interior side sill panels (and water fall) seem like good options to leatherize
The silver/chrome trim in the car looks cheap and screams "GM" all day, IMO. They don't make accent covers in all gloss black, so carbon fiber black is still much better than the silver/chrome crap. Besides, they do make very nice carbon fitted pieces that are NOT the "wrap around rubber" like covers which I agree look cheap. And body color pieces on the interior like yellow, red, blue look tacky and ghetto to me! Even if I don't like what someone does to thier car, I keep my opinion to myself....I'm glad not everyone likes the same thing, that would make all our Vettes look the same!
Yeah really adding a lot of weight with these interior carbon fiber pieces I'd venture you could cover the entire interior with carbon fiber trim and add not more than 2 lbs.
OP - order the leather yourself and have at it. www.relicate.com. I've covered nearly all the interior plastic pieces in my Z06 with Alcantara.
Ive been think of covering my a pillars, HTC roof liner and little ear things in alcantara. Not sure if that’s is a DIY for me or have an upholstery shop do it. I might just be over thinking it.
Last edited by Mr. Jonathan; Sep 13, 2025 at 09:53 AM.
One benefit of these CF peices is a person can paint them with great results. There is no reason an enthusiast should be held back from customizing the interior accents using the CF term overlays. Additionally, these are easily removed if going back to OEM for sell of the car.
IMHO Carbon fibre is the new chrome as far as bling goes. I wouldn't add it, as has been said before the purpose is to save weight. I come from old school bicycling where every ounce counts.
But .. for those who want to add it, . .It's your car. Make yourself happy.
I'm a big no to carbon fiber. My car is either torch red or carbon flash. I was looking at a glove box door in red, but all I could find was carbon fiber red. So, thinking out of the box, when I had parts of my car wrapped with carbon flash, I got the installer to wrap the glove box door in red, which removed the carbon fiber look.
I don’t necessarily dislike CF but like with all things, especially accents and trim, too much of it can ruin the looks. In fact, I think CF looks better on larger things like spoilers or body panels where the weight savings is more impactful and functional.The benefit of CF is it’s weight to strength ratio, I am not convinced CF speaker covers fall under the functional necessity of CF vs plastic. When I see little pieces of trim done in CF it reminds me of the stuff found in the accessories section of Auto Zone and Walmart.
Ive been think of covering my a pillars, HTC roof liner and little ear things in alcantara. Not sure if that’s is a DIY for me or have an upholstery shop do it. I might just be over thinking it.
Mine is a C6 Z06, but many of the interior pieces snap in basically the same on the C8.
It's not too difficult. You want unbacked fabric & practice on some random pieces first. If your a-pillars are leather, remove the leather and trace it onto the Alcantara so you can cut it the same shape & size.
To answer the OP original question, they make them because people buy them!! Personally I think stick on carbon fiber bits is tacky. I did that in my 2016 Stingray years ago and kind of regretted doing it. Looked good but every time I looked at them I knew they were not the real deal!
The silver/chrome trim in the car looks cheap and screams "GM" all day, IMO. They don't make accent covers in all gloss black, so carbon fiber black is still much better than the silver/chrome crap. Besides, they do make very nice carbon fitted pieces that are NOT the "wrap around rubber" like covers which I agree look cheap. And body color pieces on the interior like yellow, red, blue look tacky and ghetto to me! Even if I don't like what someone does to thier car, I keep my opinion to myself....I'm glad not everyone likes the same thing, that would make all our Vettes look the same!
I totally agree. I used carbon to cover the silver trim. The speaker cover is the stealth option.
For me, it does not look any cheaper than the aluminum finished parts. It is a matter of preference. Some people cover the leather, I think that look cheap. I used some pieces to cover the aluminum and tie into the exterior parts. As gentlemen, we can agree to disagree, I think it looks great. Certainly better than OEM Carbon Flash.
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I'd venture you could cover the entire interior with carbon fiber trim and add not more than 2 lbs. 
