Kind of makes you wonder. The 3M vinyl isn't necessarily cheap, probably real carbon fiber wouldn't be too much. Since it's not structural you could get away with lower grades as long as it still looked good.

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agree but im sure carbon cloth is thicker than vinyl wrap. woudnt it stop the trim from fitting back in place properly? im gonna look into cf skinning n see how much it will cost to have som1 do it for me or to buy kits

Was messing with some fiberglass cloth yesterday and it's fairly thin, I'd imagine carbon fiber wouldn't be any thicker. It's thinner than the good vinyl, so I'd imagine it'd be easier to worth with in that regard.

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Prices for a decent skinning kit start at about £45 tho. but theres enough carbon cloth jus to maybe cover the centre console trim properly. includes resin n all. but if it is thin I will keep that in mind as spray painting will cost around 50ish

I just looked earlier and actual carbon fiber cloth is a good bit cheaper than the 3M 1080 vinyl. At least that's the case with buying off the U.S. eBay site. One of the carbon fiber cloths I found was a 36" x 50" square for $32 OBO plus shipping, was .009" thick as well. I'd imagine would be much easier to work with than vinyl and it's actually cheaper. If I go to redo interior again I'm considering it.

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That's a really good price. I might have to start buying from US. everything here is a ripoff lol

After seeing the trim colour on my m8s Vauxhall astra Iv decided to go with gloss black for the centre console trim and a pearlescent grey/silver for the door bits and vents etc. hopefully Will look good. gotta buy the paint soon