Additional Carbon Fiber Pieces to Match OEM

[1BadRS]

Do any vendors offer carbon fiber pieces that match the OEM ones? I know that GM uses a special tinting, so most aftermarket carbon pieces don't match up very well, at least to my liking. My car has both carbon packages, so I'd like to add more, but only if I can get them to match the factory look.

 

[seattlecubes]

Is yours a CT4 or CT5?

 

[1BadRS]

CT4

 

[FLYARMY]

I saved a ton of money and went with 3M carbon fiber wrap on my CT5BW. Most people can't even tell its a wrap.

 

[seattlecubes]

CT4

Have you tried Tapout tuning? They are the CT4 specialists and have a lot of high-quality CF parts.

 

[1BadRS]

No I haven't, I'll check them out.

 

[chrishuy]

Check out Anderson Composites: Anderson Composites

 

[Yo Nadz]

Check out Anderson Composites: Anderson Composites

From my experience Anderson carbon is waaaayyyy more silver than the OEM brown-ish.

 

[1BadRS]

I agree about Anderson and I'm not seeing anything from Tap Out that references the carbon they sell matches the factory brown-ish tint. When I had my C7, the company below made OEM matching carbon fiber parts, but they don't make them for the Cadillac's. I'd love to do the mirror caps and the fender vents, but only if they can match the rest of the carbon parts, otherwise I'll just stick with the painted parts.

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[Dirkbg]

When I got some Tapout nose parts, they didn't match the OEM color. I ended up going all OEM for the nose where they meet up against each other, and Tapout for the rear spoiler. You can see the wheel deflector (Tapout) against the splitter and dive planes in the bottom photo here Carbon fiber PN database.

I did notice at a Cadillac club meet that a new Road Atlanta car had gray/silver tint rather than amber almost all the other OEM versions have. So even the OEM suppliers may have variations.

Also worth noting is that the wheel deflectors I bought a couple years ago from Tapout have a differnt pattern from OEM. They slope down from right to left for both parts facing them, but OEM slope down from outside to inside. You can see what I'm saying by looking at my photo of the Tapout parts here Carbon fiber PN database. versus the OEM here Carbon fiber PN database.