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Dry Carbon Fiber look for window controls and center console.

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Old 02-05-11, 06:29 AM
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Default Dry Carbon Fiber look for window controls and center console.

Just wanted o share my new mod.









Old 02-05-11, 06:31 AM
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Nice mod! You do that yourself or did you have someone do it for you?
Old 02-05-11, 06:35 AM
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I bought a kit in Aerotect and Install it myself.
My controls I guess were different and I needed to do it twice but those guys were great help. They first sent me what they thought it was the correct 2009 controls kit, but we find out when it got here that my controls were different to the kit so they send me another kit with all holes deleted so i could do it myself and this is how it ended up. I like it a lot.
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Is it put on with a hot gun and it shrinks it on to the piece?
Old 02-05-11, 06:40 AM
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Yeah. Kind of like that. You stick it on and heat it in the corners to mold it to the contours of the controls. I use a hair dryer. Maybe a heat gun in low will be a lot better but I had no problems at all.
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Looks really good! I want to do this....maybe when the wx gets warmer.
Old 02-05-11, 06:46 AM
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I want to do this too. Maybe once the weather warms up and I get some of the other stuff done that I've had on my to do list for a long time. Dang working 60+ hour weeks leaves no fun time.
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That looks really nice. Great job!
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Looks great. I had planned to do this to mo console and swith panels.
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looks great! got any close up shots of the cup holder part? are there any gaps?
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Wow nice job man, that came out really nice.
How long did it take you to do?
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how hard was it to do this?
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Originally Posted by ILL250
looks great! got any close up shots of the cup holder part? are there any gaps?
No gaps anywhere.
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Originally Posted by KillaIS250
Wow nice job man, that came out really nice.
How long did it take you to do?
It took me about 1:30 for the entire job. But I did the console first, then the back doors and then the froont doors.

The hardest part is taking the console out, the rest is easy.
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Originally Posted by Bigrahizzl
how hard was it to do this?
I will say two in a scale of ten.


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