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      06-10-2010, 08:42 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by Itanius View Post
I could be wrong here, but you can't paint Carbon Fiber and still see the CF pattern. Painting it will, like painting anything else, cover up whatever is under the paint. The carbon fiber has to be impregnated with color during the manufacturing process.
If you look at an Aston Martin DBS you can actually see and feel the weave beneath the paint.

It would require you to paint on bare CF...not the clearcoated stuff that aftermarket CF piece are made of.
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