carbon fiber input?

ok, im not a big fan of chrome and my truck is white so murdering it out is not an option, (and 2 of my friends have murdered out avalanches) so ive been looking at carbon fiber. i dont want my avalanche to look tacky or ragged out. i have carbon fiber tails already and they look nice, so i thought i run with it. i have carbon mirror caps, fuel door, tail gate letters, and front bowtie picked out. i am also thinking about getting all the avalanche emblems on the plastic in white. any ideas, thoughts, or criticisms would be great. i asked a few guys i work with and got laughed at, if it was i beat up rusted out old ragged out pos they would like it so they are no help. thanks

I think it's kinda tacky unless it's REAL carbon fiber, not a sticker. I wouldn't mind a carbon fiber hood (have been keeping my eye out for a cheap one), carbon fiber tailgate, etc. The fuel door looks ALRIGHT, the mirror caps would be ok if it didn't have flames. I personally think the white caps look good on your truck. I would probably color match your bowtie and grill (if it's not done already, hard to tell with small pic).

I've seen the guys colormatch the cladding but was normally blue/red trucks, and it looked awesome, I think white would be too noticeable with rock chips.

I don't understand why people like to draw attention to their gas cap. Why would you want that to stand out?

so my crazy ex can find the gas door and poorsuger in the tank

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Originally Posted by foggy

I don't understand why people like to draw attention to their gas cap. Why would you want that to stand out?

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Originally Posted by foggy

I don't understand why people like to draw attention to their gas cap. Why would you want that to stand out?

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I used to have one of those locking black powder coated ones. Matched my black wheels/rollbars pretty well. As long as it's not one of those chrome stickers all the 'gangstas' put on...I'm ok with it.

No go on the 3m accessories. I have never dug the gas cap fad. But hey its your ride.

thanks for the input, no one is gonna hurt my feelings by telling me something is stupid. i had the only white/grey avalanche in town now their is another one. i have the stock wheels on my truck now and they are identical, im just looking for some exterior mods to make it not so cookie cutter plain jane just like the other million on the road. any ideas?, i have the $$ set aside and want to get something done before i find some other non truck related crap to spend my $$ on.

oh ya, im pretty sure the wheels in the pic are gonna be gone and replaced with matte black rockstars or ???, im not digging the bling plus i got them for next to nothing ($300 with tires), i was also throwing around the idea of flat black rbp tips, gas door, and ?? to go with the rockstars. my other reason for exterior mods is that a bunch of guys that i hang around with at the rod shop started a friday night cruise in and car club, they have nice rides = a sweet c10, 9 sec. javlin, 69 nova, 69 fire bird and camaro, ws6 ta, 02 ss z28, and a bunch of other bad cars and trucks and i have a stock lookin avalanche.

From the looks of the area, I guess lowering it is out of the question? I would put on some billet wheels. I white and a nice set of billet wheels looks killer, also you could have all the plastic on the body smoothed and painted to match that would look good too, well to me.

Use of real carbon fiber to make lighter parts can be cool. Fake carbon fiber stuck on top of other panels, never cool IMO.

It's too bad you don't like chrome because I think chrome on white trucks looks killer. If you want to go the matte black way get the wheels you want and have all the gray plastic turned matte black. I would make the Avalanche letters white when you did that so they stand out. You could also tint the tails or get black ones and black headlight covers and some dark window tint. You have to ask yourself, do you want your truck to resemble that rusty '95 Honda you saw at the mall with all the fake carbon stuff from Autozone and the chromed 5 gallon bucket for an exhaust tip? I really think the fake carbon is tacky. One of my buddies has an OBS F-150 that's white with a lot of blacked out stuff and it's pretty sharp.:thumb:

Or you could color match the gray plastic and make it look like an Escalade?

Paint all the gray cladding white. There is one around here and it looks totally different. Very Nice.

Can you take the plastic trim off? Are there regular body panels underneath?

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Originally Posted by LUC666

Can you take the plastic trim off? Are there regular body panels underneath?

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No, and no.

my truck looks like crap in the picture, the plastic is dark grey when it is clean. i have lowering coils for the rear but they are 4", the guy i bought them from said they were 2'', but the 2'' are on the way. winters get bad where im at and every thing chrome ive ever had has pitted bad, i take care of my rides and they stay in the garage. its hard to find something that looks good all year around. for the plastic, im getting all the avalanche emblems in white and all the recessed lines are getting white pin striping, i like the grey plastic. thanks for the input. looks like its a no go on the fiber after the ricer comment.

Lift it :)

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Originally Posted by oleshifty

Lift it :)

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here is the one i sold to buy the one i have now, i would like to have another lifted avalanche, but not for a dd, but i do have a connection at bds:nutz:

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Originally Posted by oleshifty

Lift it :)

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^^:thumb:

I love the looks of white and black together like another guy posted. On thought of the fuel door, i have a black one on my white truck and personaly love it. i agree on what someone said on blacking on the side molding that would change the looks big time. then black out the bow tie and get black z71 decals.