I have a 07 shelby GT. a 05 V6 CONVERTABLE, 01 HARLEY F150, ECT, ECT. I READ THE FORUM, NEVER ADDED OR PATICIPATED THOUGH. The stripe issue amazes me. I am retired, work at a Ford dealership part time as a sort of do all guy. I babied the 07 GT we got as I take the cars from transport truck to delivery. The GT WE GOT WAS ON THE SHOW ROOM FLOOR and didnt sell. I decided to put it on the front lawn for all the passer buys to see. It NEVER saw rain. Was allways put in the show room at night. I stared at it for months until Ford finally offered employee pricing and .09% fiancing. I broke and bought it!!! The stripes had spotted and needed replacing. The work was completed and the car has never seen rain since. So far no problems but lets face it THEY HAVE TO BE THE CHEAPEST PIECES OF CRAP OUT THERE!!!! to be so problematic....I dont believe 3M graphics have the problems these have.
Re: new but old to forum There has been a lot of discussion but I don't think I ever heard who made them or where they were made. Anyone know who made them?
It's not a rain or quality of vinyl issue. It is a heat issue. This is what silver does no matter the brand, when you put it on the upper surfaces of vehicles. There is no pigment in silver vinyl and no uv protection. Most of the problems are with the black and blue cars. I have replaced dozens of these for the local ford dealers and don't recall a single white car that I have worked on. It was just a bad choce from the start to use silver vinyl. dz
My car IS white..the spotting seemed to happen overnight!. One day they just appeared. The car was at the dealership and never left outside!!
Looked back through some of my pics and I did do a couple white ones. Not nearly as bad as the black and blue cars. Unfortunately that is what silver does. The vinyl is now 3 years old if it is original. It is probably worse on the metal panels, roof hood, top of trunk. The plastic bumpers don't get as hot Whe someone asks for silver stripes in my shop they get no warranty. Think of it as slow cooking something in a pan and all of a sudden it starts to brown. That's what is happening. Just takes longer with white cars which don't get as hot as darker color cars. As I said it's not a quality issue just a bad decision to use silver in the first place dz
Thanks for the info. I believe what you say. However I have been seen older Cavalier and S-10 Xtrem P/U trucks from around 2003 or so that have silver stripes. All of these I have seen look better than my 07 $40,000 Shelby GT. Another thing I think of when I see these other cars is I know most of those folks take anywhere near as good care of there cars and trucks as I do my car.
Yeah, I have a GT-H without stripes. I am debating on whether to put the vinyl on or not. I kinda like it all black, but I know the right look is gold LeMans stripes. I live in So calif. so I guess the sun would cream the stripes, right?
I would think the wax protection you use on your car would protect the stripes as well...I would paint them on if I had do it again
