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Old 10-30-2017, 07:31 PM
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I had painted ones once. Never again. If you actually drive the car, the paint gets beat up. If it's a garage queen, who cares?
Old 10-30-2017, 07:59 PM
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Looked at side-on a car with unpainted skirt, vehicle will look less tall, hence wider, lower - more sports car like. More so on lighter colored vehicles. It's the same reason rear diffusers are generally rendered in black/carbon, the vehicle looks "lower".
Old 10-30-2017, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by goin2drt
Painted and they will not take a beating. Mine are smooth and look perfect after 20k miles.
That's not possible unless you drive on glass inside a cars and coffee museum. You can wrap them and they still get beat up.

There's a reason they used to be sprayed with rock shot.
Old 10-30-2017, 08:27 PM
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I have mixed feelings about them. To me when painted they actually make the car look lower, which I like. But I also agree with it doesn’t flow with the body lines of the black trim as well. Also my black ones are beat to death so you would have to wrap them with ppf. And probably change the ppf every 2 years.
I have a pts coming and will not be adding this option.
Old 10-30-2017, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by fastmd
That's not possible unless you drive on glass inside a cars and coffee museum. You can wrap them and they still get beat up.

There's a reason they used to be sprayed with rock shot.
Ok if you say so. One track day, thousands of canyon runs and a couple 2,500 mile road trips to total 20k miles but if you say so they must be horrible.

Yeah don't get them painted.
Old 10-30-2017, 08:57 PM
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My Black .2 GT3, which is arriving in a week, has painted side-skirts. Was not my build, but close, and I would never of chose them. Now I am going to have to wrap that area where I would never have too. I like the regular skirt because they take a beating and they never look bad
Old 10-30-2017, 10:57 PM
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Went painted. Applying xpel and then if i want them black, 3m just came out with a deep matte black wrap.
Old 10-30-2017, 11:02 PM
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I'm getting my PTS side skirts painted.. old GT3 had them and I loved the look.
Old 10-30-2017, 11:33 PM
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I have painted side skirt on my 15 TT and went with same for 911.2 GT3 Touring. looks better in my opinion, no damage so far in TT, X-pel covered.
Old 10-31-2017, 02:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Dr.Bill
I had painted ones once. Never again. If you actually drive the car, the paint gets beat up. If it's a garage queen, who cares?
listen to Dr.Bill.

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Old 10-31-2017, 02:13 AM
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Leave them black.

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Old 10-31-2017, 02:46 AM
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I have them on my .1 and still not sure. I do like the look so I got them re wrapped as they do take a beating. Looks great again.
Old 10-31-2017, 12:01 PM
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I have the spoiler, rockers and rear trim painted on my S.

The "look" is better when the entire car is painted.

However, on a GT3 driven like intended, unpainted will save you lots of heart aches and money better spent on tires.





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