Carbon Fibre Wrapping Interior

[agent_dess]

In the classical sense i eventually caved in and decided to do some carbon fibre wrapping.

There are two specimens:
1) Black 3D carbon fibre
2) Dark Grey 3Dcarbon fibre (more about this at the end)

I ended up going for the Black carbon fibre for 1 main reason.. i had loads of it left over.
Another reason for doing the centre console panel was the driver side was pretty worn down from the previous owner.

I decided to NOT wrap the inner panel.. i may revisit this in the future

Model select knob removed, as you can see it has 4 clip points, was very easy to remove.

Had a few scratches that annoyed me and replacement cannot be found.

Final product 🙂

 

Now about why i didn't use the dark grey carbon fibre, simply i didnt have enough and what i had was crumpled badly after being knocked about in the cupboard/
Here some proof of concept:

So they grey would have been equally nice.

Future plans make include switching to the dark grey and include the door switch panels and glove box.

[DavidCM]

That looks really smart.A clever and tasteful way to refurbish worn trim, without overkilling the carbon fibre.

Can I ask where you get it from and is it easy to apply?Is it self-adhesive or do you stretch and heat treat it?

David

[agent_dess]

8 minutes ago, DavidCM said:

That looks really smart.A clever and tasteful way to refurbish worn trim, without overkilling the carbon fibre.

Can I ask where you get it from and is it easy to apply?Is it self-adhesive or do you stretch and heat treat it?

David

Hey David thanks 😀yes it's very easy to do, the wrap can be bought from eBay, its cheap.  The black one used was 3M, the grey one I had was non-branded. 

Only tools used was plastic trim tool, screwdriver, scalpel knife and hairdryer oh and scissors to cut the vinyl.

I washed the parts using fairy liquid then dried, to ensure parts were grease free.

Best way to learn is by doing,. But I suggest watching some vids on YouTube.

Also if you look on the forum you will find old posts of when I did the carbon wrap on my IS250.

[DavidCM]

Thanks,I,ll find them.