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Seeing a lot of them about. Is this something that manufacturers offer as a 'factory' option or is this an after market thing?
Around London recently have seen BMW X5's, Porches, Bentley, Range Rover as well as a Ford Focus. All looked/were plated as 'new' rather than anything that would be in need of a respray.
Looks interesting but far too 'drug dealer' for my tastes. Seems to be popular with young middle eastern men predominantly.
It's normally a full vinyl wrap of the car body. Protects the paint and looks fancy / odd depending on your point of view.
half assed attempt at rat look is it?
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Protects the paint
I have never got this - people who put seat covers on or those damn stupid bonnet protectors (see lots of American cars with them).
I mean, who benefits? All you do is drive around looking daft/having uncomfortable seat covers scrunching up etc but it doesn't help you at all, just the person who eventually buys the car from you.
Very odd.
I quite look it, sort of stealth look, but it's not to everyones tastes. Aftermarket AFAIK, never seen it done via vinyl wrap but theres no reason why not.
Quite an "in" look.
If you're blind. Saves polishing I guess.
i have a bonnet cover and a seat cover.
seat cover stops my muddy biking arse ruining me van. bonnet cover looks badass and stops stone chips (allegedly)
Looks like you had a prang and it been painted with primer and waiting for the final coat - it says more 'sh1t driver' than 'gangster' to me.
Well I hope it looks good as I have ordered a Focus in Matt Black. 😐
LHS - RS500 by any chance?!
shhhh, the STW police will not approve and I will be flamed off the forum.
Vinyl wrap of an F430:
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yes please, although 345bhp through the front wheels only... hope you've got good insurance and a friendly tyre dealer, LHS!
and stops stone chips
But who benefits from your car not having stone chips on but looking like it has an oversized panty liner on?
bonnet cover looks badass
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I was at the Dorchester the other day and parked outside was a Lamborghini in matt black - Looked good to me.
LHS - not quite my cup of tea but one hell of a car!
I've seen a Chrysler 3000 in matt black and I think it looks good, and not in a gangster way!
In the States it is a protection against bugs which can weld themselves to car paint after being squidged and baked in the sun.
But who benefits from your car not having stone chips on but looking like it has an oversized panty liner on?
brilliant.
incidently i dont drive a bmw. and it isnt a half bonnet bra. covers the WHOLE thing.
Seen a Nissan GTR with it. Looks like a batmobile which can only be a good thing (unless the Joker sees it)
I thought it was more to do with the number of unsurfaced roads in North America. Car Bras are very good at protecting a car from massive stone chip damage.
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Thats my brothers, aparently its the "in" thing to do, but on the plus side i can write ****t in chalk on it.
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Car Bras
I didn't know that was what they were called.
An equally daft name for a daft thing in the first place.
My point is - you drive a car with the damn stupid thing on - it doesn't look in any way cool or useful. It just looks daft. Then you sell the car and the new owner takes it off, throws it away and has a nice chip-free car. And I don't believe the residual price would be any higher for it being 100% chip free anyway.
IMO.
And I don't believe the residual price would be any higher for it being 100% chip free anyway.
On a normal POS car, probably not. If your car is worth anything or at all a classic then maybe its worth keeping protected so it still looks good at shows or on resale as a minter.
I've got a job in Marylebone and quite often there is a Dubai plated CLS Merc and 911 Turbo both in matt black, parked in the same carpark I use. Both look good and the paint finish seems excellent.I would guess they have both had some serious money spent on them as when the owner starts them up the sound of the engines is amazing and far from standard. I think the finish looks very good on the right car and I am liking the look of the Focus.
On a normal POS car, probably not. If your car is worth anything or at all a classic then maybe its worth keeping protected so it still looks good at shows or on resale as a minter
Fair point
A nice chip-free car, with a nice foot-deep strip of paint that hasn't sun-bleached at the same rate as the rest of the car...
Bras are for women not cars.
Whatever next - eyeliner for the edges of the windscreen? Tampons for the exhaust?
Tampons for the exhaust
The logic there being that 4x4 drivers tend to be stuck up ****ts?
Whatever next - eyeliner for the edges of the windscreen?
Audi are pretty much there with their fairy-lights......
The logic there being that 4x4 drivers tend to be stuck up ****ts?
(High 5s Cougar) 😆
Audi are pretty much there with their fairy-lights......
Merc and Porsche seem to be following this "trend" too - looks like they've crashed into a Halfords store.
All cars'll have 'em soon (in one style or another) when DRLs becomes compulsory on all new cars.
DRLs?
Daytime Running Lights
(Obviously they don't need to be a string of fairy lights, but some form of dipped beam that remains on day and night).
Errrrmm - most cars can be programmed to have lights on all the time anyway. We don't need gay fairy lights.
Errrrmm - most cars can be programmed to have lights on all the time anyway. We don't need gay fairy lights.
I agree they don't have to be, they are just the 'thing' at the moment so I can imagine more manufacturers will start designing them into the clusters. Anyway, LED lights consume less power too.
LED lights are fine for the rear but not so good (at the moment) for the front.
Every time I see an A5 I think - that is [i]almost[/i] very attractive apart from those gay chav lights.
Even 911s have gone for them - not good.
so far my favourite looking car of all those posted is tracknicko's. its just got something about it.
its just got something [s]about[/s] on it.
Corrected that for you... 😉
my favourite is surfmat's second pic - what a ****ing shed that is
Every time I see an A5 I think - that is almost very attractive apart from those gay chav lights.
But that's just personal preference, I quite like it but i think it could be done better with more diffuse LED technology rather than the dots, but I still think they look OK. I just can't understand the venom against someones choice of DRL type.
Jon Olsen has had his murc like that for a while, complete with ski box. Nice to see something like that being used.
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That's not a ski box - that's a jet pack.
We had a bulletin from Fords at work about the RS500, Saying as the finish is a vinyl coating, it is expected that it may lift at the edges and bubble under heat, this is not a fault! I'm sure the 500 customers worldwide will be pleased!
Bit of a fashion victim thing going on with matt black. Looks good in photos, looks largely ridiculous in the flesh/metal/plastic/whatever. Reminds me of the late 90's trend for pearlescent paints in all the 'Max Giant Exhaust and Wings' magazines.
There's a Range Rover round our way in matt black. I point and laugh every time I see it. The urge to draw a giant phallus on the side of it in chalk is overwhelming.
who's jon olsen ?
No idea 😉 I'll type it properly next time. [url= http://www.freestyletv.ch/jon-olsson-super-session-2010/ ]freestyle skier[/url]
Seemed like a nice guy. He spent loads of time taking photos with kids at this event, including mine.
Matt black cars make me think of Mad Max, which is a good thing. I think it's best on old cars though. Something like this Buick Regal (which is already the baddest looking car ever made) would be perfect.
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Very few cars can pull it off. Most chosen by the more-wealth-than-taste brigade are not among them.
Dodge Challenger: Yes
Rolls Royce Phantom: No
I seem to recollect matt black motor bikes being all the rage in the mid 80's
and stops stone chipsBut who benefits from your car not having stone chips on but looking like it has an oversized panty liner on?
Just like a chainstay protector, as if you'd use one of them 😉
Reminds me of the late 90's trend for pearlescent paints
hey! I've got that on my road bike.
DRL's will have to be fitted to all new cars sold in the EU from 2011. Better to have bright LED's than dim yellow incandescent bulbs that will blow and are a nasty yellow colour. Get used to them, they aren't going away. As far as the matt finish is concerned, as it's a vinyl wrap, it could just as easily be transparent; I saw a big Merc in London last Monday at Hammersmith with a matt metallic silver gray finish, which I rather liked. Has the big advantage of not just protecting from stone chips, but from scratches from bushes along narrow lanes, birdsh1t baking onto the paint, that sticky crap from lime trees in summer, squished bugs...
Just like a chainstay protector, as if you'd use one of them
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good point - I do have one, but just to stop the annoying metal on metal rap.
I think it looks great on the right car - friend has a cayenne turbo s magnum done matt black with black rims and it looks the bollox!
there you go 8)
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It looks bollocks, not 'the' bollox.
Is he a drug dealer or a pimp?
Agreed, Mastiles. All I can see is a drug dealer's car.
Heh! You posted as I edited my post 🙂
I've seen it on a few cars, looked real nice on a Ferrari 599, Audi R8 and Lambo Gallardo with matching matt alloys and surprisingly a BMW 3-series convertible
each to his own - if we all liked the same the world would be a very boring place. He's not a drug dealer, just a successful businessman (his 911 is shiny black just to be different)
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🙂 @ Mastiles!
bakes, that's disruptive pattern paint, designed to "disgiuse" a prototype or test car.
There's a matt black M3 Coupe on the M1 most mornings. Thought WTF at first. Quite liking it now...
cheers CFH, I see
what about camo?
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what about camo?
Waste of money......I can still see 'em!!!
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a few years ago there was one of the peugeot sport official owners club peeps that Camo wrapped their 205 gti, looked Great!
cant find any p[ics of it now though
With regards to the bonnet protectors heres a tip 'do not drive up the car in fronts ar$£ and you will not need one'
This horror show is trundling around Leeds at the moment.
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And yes, it looks as bad in the flesh, more Dubai than West Yorkshire...
I think it looks great on the right car - friend has a cayenne turbo s magnum done matt black with black rims and it looks the bollox!
:picard: WTF, he's ridiculously lowered a 4x4 and stuck strips of rubber to oversized rims. It's an abortion of a vehicle that'll impress kids and drive like a 2cv on steroids....
Why didn't he just buy a proper sports car, something like a noble or similar, or a bonkers 4x4 like a bowler?
edit, that gtr reminds me of battlestar galatica and the cyborg things, just needs the knightrider red leds...
Car bras protecting paint? 😆
They're brilliant at trapping grit and moisture, and making you look like you're driving an othorpedic shoe.
Saccades - Member
I think it looks great on the right car - friend has a cayenne turbo s magnum done matt black with black rims and it looks the bollox!
:picard: WTF, he's ridiculously lowered a 4x4 and stuck strips of rubber to oversized rims. It's an abortion of a vehicle that'll impress kids and drive like a 2cv on steroids....
Why didn't he just buy a proper sports car, something like a noble or similar, or a bonkers 4x4 like a bowler?
He has got a proper sports car too a 911 turbo S. the magnum is also well sorted in the handling dept and is running over 600bhp. The sound alone is sublime! I agree it's not everyones cup of tea but each to his own hey. Personally I think it's great 🙂
I think that camo bentley is vomiting its way into the lead right now
This thread is proof that money can't buy class.
Saccades - MemberI think it looks great on the right car - friend has a cayenne turbo s magnum done matt black with black rims and it looks the bollox!
:picard:
picard, eh? that's a bit... bill... of you :ninja:
oh dear god
who buys a lambo then camo's it, what a ****
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but i may have poor taste 😆
I wonder what you colour you put on the logbook when you have a green/brown camo car?