Cosmetic Question

[Esprit]

Hi All,

I've got a question of a purely cosmetic nature

At a recent trackday I had a little offtrack excursion, no damage done except for that a load of stones were thrown up and the spats (armourfend stone-guards) ahead of the rear wheels are now a little torn up.

Now these are the OE items and are very very slightly yellowed, now that they've got some nasty scars on them, I've been thinking about replacing them. There are a couple of paint chips under them from some particularly heavy stonechips that I'll carefully touch up while I've got them off.

The question I've got is what colour to get them done? Should I stick with the clear or go for the black ones.... personally I like the look of both and can't make up my mind which would suit the car best.

What do you think?

Car below

[gooby]

Not quite sure how much of the car you are talking about. If it is just the sills then ok but to my mind any coloured part should contrast with the overall theme of the car. I think the armourfend is something that shouldnt be seen.

if you did it it would probably look great ......

[cej]

I vote for black

[S works]

Go black, looks excellent on light coloured cars. May well do the same on mine sometime in the next 12 months as they are yellowing a little.

[Esprit]

Gooby, it's just the two pieces in front of the rear wheels, the bit just above and below the seam where the sill meets the rear clam.

Black would look ok on mine I think as my Body and wheels are both new aluminium, the black bits pick up the same theme as all the vents, grilles and tyres.

I agree though, Armourfend should be clear, as this looks best, but I think in this case there's a case for black too, maybe .

[Blackhawk1969]

Depends on the wheels, the black looks good with black wheels. I also have a silver Elise and I was looking at this on a car at Coombe last weekend.

[Esprit]

I'm leaning towards the Transparent at the moment... I guess I'm too conservative... black does look good though... but I think it's a bit "tryhard exige" for my little Elise... I'll wait until 2008 for my S1 Exige then I'll have one of each