I'm going to finally be taking that ugly fake carbon fiber trim and making it gloss black tomorrow. I've seen many swapping trims and vinyl wrapping to change their trim but I will be painting mine so I thought some may benefit from seeing the progress of this process. Stay tuned!

 

Subbed! What's the stock "carbon fiber" look like?! I've always wondered! Mines the stock silver!!

 

Ok here's some before pics of it as carbon fiber still:

 

Hitting it with this:

 

how to i take out this cover where AC plug is? do i have to take whole console out?

 

For the portion with radio/AC controls/etc yes the upper part around your navigation comes out to expose two screws at the top. The lower portion tucked under with the seat heater buttons etc the console doesn't have to be completed removed but it does have to be loosened and pulled back a bit.

 

Paint updates. This is after 5 coats of paint, that many coats it will be wet sanding before applying the clearcoat:

 

Oh wow, that's a cool carbon fiber look! I love the new black too! Looks great!!

 

Thanks man! Many on here will tell you that the carbon fiber in person looks cheap, especially up close but I'm pumped about the black!

 

Progress pic after 4 coats of black and 5 coats of clear. Wet sanding and polish tomorrow:

 

The painted ones look silver or is that the primer color, or too much lighting?

 

It's the lighting, sorry. It's the sheen from the finish since it was satin before hitting it with gloss.

 

Please post pics of the final installation.

 

Ok here are the final pics! Small glitch in the process, I didn't like the finish the gloss black paint was giving me so I went with a vinyl wrap instead. I still wanted to post pics of the change though:







You can see the air bubbles in some of the pics so I will take pictures once those air out as an update!

 

Pretty nice dude!

 

Thanks brother! It's only been a few days and most of the air bubbles are already gone too. 👍

 

How does the upper part around the navi come off?

 

You just get in between the edge of your dash and the part that juts out over your navigation screen with a flat head screwdriver. Don't be gentle...work your way across and then tug with some good force to pop it out!

 

Nice work!

 

Thanks brother!

 

Looks better, great job man!!

 

Thank you very much! Looks good by the way. Good job!

 

Thank you!

 

nice work looks good

 

Carbon trim.. that's stock? Because here in GCC specs it comes with a wooden trim..

 

Thank you!

 

Yes those before shots are of the stock carbon fiberish pattern that came stock on my Maxi.