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Door Pillar Carbon Wrap

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 5:41 pm
by Lancer1993
I'm looking at options to give my VRX a different look and saw these carbon wrap strips for the B pillar window frames.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LANCER-EVO-C ... 3cba649368

But at $220 they are ridiculously expensive just to have 'Lancer' on them.
Has anyone tried making their own, what's the best approach. Make a template and precut or stick them on use a sharp knife to trim them off to fit?

Currently there is a small dent in the drivers B Pillar window frame so part of this is to cover it up, or make it less obvious. I was considering just painting that one after sanding and filling but thought some carbon wrap would be enough to hide the dent.

In the long run I want to add carbon wrap to other parts of my black VRX to break up the dark gloss color. Maybe even wrapping the bonnet, roof and boot.

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 5:51 pm
by BenJ
Wrapping it would be better,I all so have a black vr,in the process of doing black carbon fibre wrap on the silver interior bits on the dash and doors,black is a hard colour to work with,I would like to know what way u go and what u end up doing

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:14 pm
by Lancer1993
I might try the carbon wrap, I have some lying around and if it doesn't work I can alway paint it later.

Should I lay the carbon wrap under where the weather shields will be stuck down?

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:52 pm
by Berek
My vrx has old faded carbon trim so I ordered a set from the US for $40. Ofcourse they didn't fit when I got them... :evil: so I bought a big sheet of cf vinyl and I'll just cut it to shape. Haven't tried yet though.

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:55 pm
by BenJ
If u could put contact on your books as a kid u will have no worries at all with it

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:01 pm
by Berek
When I went to school we wrapped our books with brown paper :oops: :roll: Hadn't been invented back then :lol:

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:08 pm
by Lancer1993
Carbon fiber book covers, now there's an idea... wouldn't put it on the kids books as there would probably get bashed up on the way home LOL

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:15 pm
by BenJ
Lol but they would look apart

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:20 pm
by BenJ
To get the best out come would be remove any thing around wear u want to wrap so u cover the hole area then when u put the parts back on there is no edge and u end up with a nice clean look

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:23 pm
by Lancer1993
The rubber the glass slides in should come out easy with the window down?