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Originally Posted by Schumi View Post
The gray interiors on the 996's... so ugly to me.

Also, watch out of the cars with the carbon fiber accents on the interior trim. They goto hell with age, they aren't UV coated well so they yellow, and the stuff up by the defrost vents peels up if the car is left out in hot sun a few times. It's not easily fixable.
I agree that black is the best, though I don't mind my current Graphite Gray. It needs some color to break up the drab, a painted center console does wonders.

Mostly true with the carbon fiber, I posted a thread about the issues with my factory CF trim. About 1/2 of mine is sun faded and/or finish cracked, my defrost vent trim is totally missing, and my outer vent trims are peeled up on the ends. Fortunately it can all be refinished with a little bit of labor, and I'll cut new defrost vent trim with sheet CF from Dragonplate.

Worth noting in regards to the factory CF trim, you could pretty easily pick up the standard plastic trim bits from Ebay for not much money, then sell the factory CF stuff to someone willing to refinish it. The factory CF package is thousands, so even parts that need refinished can bring some good coin. Bottom line, I wouldn't reject a good car because of some faded trim.
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