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Old Nov 5, 2017 | 01:35 PM
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I want to get rid of the chrome around the windows on my CLS, thinking of getting some black vinyl wrap and using that. Question is though, do I get Matt Black or Gloss Black?

Has anyone done it? have any example photos?

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Old Nov 5, 2017 | 11:42 PM
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What color is your car?
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Not sure on the official colour name, it’s a bluey grey.
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I'd probably go with the gloss but that's just me. Did you get your wheels powder coated? They look good. I'm suddenly seeing all the stock 18"s getting painted.
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Old Nov 7, 2017 | 12:49 AM
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Thanks, they were powder coated a couple of weeks ago after the tyre depo kindly wrecked them for me. Fortunately it ended up not costing me anything 😀.
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Thanks, they were powder coated a couple of weeks ago after the tyre depo kindly wrecked them for me. Fortunately it ended up not costing me anything 😀.
Nice, i've been wanting to get mine powder coated for the longest... looks like tyre depo are some stand up guys. Did you lower the car also?

I had my chrome window trims done gloss black vinyl btw my car is black though... I'll see if I can get you a picture later.
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Not sure on the official colour name, it’s a bluey grey.
Wow how do you keep the wheeels so peerrfect?!
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Originally Posted by Mark_CLS
I want to get rid of the chrome around the windows on my CLS, thinking of getting some black vinyl wrap and using that. Question is though, do I get Matt Black or Gloss Black?

Has anyone done it? have any example photos?

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Have you considered a carbon fiber wrap? I did CF on my w203 and it looked really nice. Have you done this before, and are you confident you can get out all the wrinkles??
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I work with carbon fibre professionally, a fake vinyl wrap will never look good to me.

I’m fairly confident I’ll be able to give the wrap a good go, if it doesn’t work it will come off again.
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Wow how do you keep the wheeels so peerrfect?!
Ha, thanks. They were only powder coated a couple of weeks ago. Washing them inside and out now every time the car gets a wash.
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Did you lower the car also?
Yea, she’s riding on home made links on the front and slotted subframe holes on the rear.
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Originally Posted by Mark_CLS
I want to get rid of the chrome around the windows on my CLS, thinking of getting some black vinyl wrap and using that. Question is though, do I get Matt Black or Gloss Black?

Has anyone done it? have any example photos?

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Here's a quick pic of mine with the gloss window trim.. I also put gloss black on the chrome door handles. Sorry if its a bit hard to see we get a lot of dust up here. Pm me if you want another pic.
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