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Old 08-09-09, 11:48 AM
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No neffy wrap for me - I went with OEM IS-F trim.



I'd also advise everyone to stay away from those ebay overlay kits - I've seen them in person and the fitment is horrible.

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Originally Posted by javyLSU
No neffy wrap for me - I went with OEM IS-F trim.



I'd also advise everyone to stay away from those ebay overlay kits - I've seen them in person and the fitment is horrible.

Javier
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Old 08-09-09, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by javyLSU
No neffy wrap for me - I went with OEM IS-F trim.



I'd also advise everyone to stay away from those ebay overlay kits - I've seen them in person and the fitment is horrible.

Javier
How much did this cost and do you have the part numbers? I'm thinking of going the Neffy wrap solution or if I can find the Birds Eye Maple (Black).

Love where the LCD is mounted, any more pics of this?
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i am also wondering how much did it cost you?
Old 08-09-09, 02:00 PM
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There's not very many options for this... It's either buy it new from a dealer for $2000, or try and find a totalled IS-F. I got lucky and scored one from a totalled IS-F.

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Originally Posted by javyLSU
There's not very many options for this... It's either buy it new from a dealer for $2000, or try and find a totalled IS-F. I got lucky and scored one from a totalled IS-F.

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How much did that run you? Don't you have a IS-F odometer? That means your odometer isn't accurate? How do you fix that?

I seen the CF overlays from ebay in real life. It isn't half bad. To a untrained eye it looks very good..
Old 08-10-09, 01:33 AM
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PM me if you are ever selling those ! or able to find another from a totalled IS F please !! i want it real badly XD
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Originally Posted by OH Nasty
Im wrapping my wood trim with neffy wrap in a few days. I think it will look a lot better than any overlay and it's a lot cheaper. I'll post some pics when I'm done.
If you wanna get some extra, ill pay you, we can wrap both of ours if you're going to be in athens.
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Originally Posted by Lexasaurus
If you wanna get some extra, ill pay you, we can wrap both of ours if you're going to be in athens.
I already ordered it last week, but I'm about to do it tomorrow I'll let you know how it turns out..
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Originally Posted by Phiber
How much did that run you? Don't you have a IS-F odometer? That means your odometer isn't accurate? How do you fix that?

I seen the CF overlays from ebay in real life. It isn't half bad. To a untrained eye it looks very good..
I remember reading it can be changed to the original odo readouts but you can only change them ONCE. (i hope im remember this right )

If anything, you can remember your original mileage and keep track of it that way.
Old 08-13-09, 08:26 AM
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Looking at it, the eBay kit isn't too bad. The pieces actually look molded or contoured to fit the curves. The other kit someboy posted is a flat kit which looks like junk on most new cars. Back in the day, flat laser cut kits were great. Cars had flatter dashes and they were recessed from the dashboard. So you couldn't see the edges. Now cars have multi contoured dashes that a flat kit simply can't fit over and the dashes are more often than not raised up so you can see the edges. That's why if you even looked at the original link, you could see the kit looked like crap. It only covered the flat portions of our dash while leaving quite a bit of plastic exposed. The optimal way to do it now is to simply get the dash wrapped or buy the entire thing from Sewell or whomever. Even the molded overlay kits won't be great (just like body kits never fit perfectly either).

I actually used to own a dash kit manufacturing company but I sold it back in '06 when we couldn't make kits for newer cars right. Although we specialized in aluminum only (actual sheets of aluminum, not the fake plastic faux aluminum you see everywhere) we knew a lot of the shops who made carbon kits and even they admitted newer cars were a problem.
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