You guys are really a HOOT!!!!!!

For what it would cost, I can't see paying for a real carbon fiber kit. For a dash, fake looks and works fine.

That carbon fiber kit is sexy

Me likey the black carbon fiber.

Did you somebody say you have to remove the dash panel to install the kit? I don't see why - and having removed my dash panel (for other reasons) it seems like the removal process would do more harm than good.

edit - I'm reducing the product rating to 5 unhappies, due to problems other forum members have had with BD Trims and their product, and their lack of reply to my last two emails. The last of which was about a potential warranty claim, as the epoxy layer has started peeling off one piece.

I highly recommend searching for another vendor.

Product - BD Trims Ebony Zebra Wood Dash Kit

Rating -

Intro -

BD Trims almost gets this right. The pieces by themselves are beautiful. They're mostly packaged well (mine arrived with a few mispackaged pieces with scratching), and there's a lifetime warranty.

edit - having decided to keep the kit, I gave it a closer inspection and found the damage was more extensive than I'd thought. Here's my rejects -



There was one more that was borderline, but I decided to keep it.

As you can see, this is nearly half the kit!!

Depending on BD Trims response, I'm going to knock another happy face off their rating.

The pieces, however, have a loose fit when actually placed on the car. This will bother some people more than others. It bothers me that more care wasn't given to make the pieces fully cover the areas they were supposed to cover. I'm not sure this in itself is enough to make me return the kit, but it's close.

The real problem shows up if you are installing a kit that doesn't match the color of the factory wood pieces. BD Trims center console and radio trim pieces will not fully cover the factory pieces, and the result looks like crap.

IMO BD Trims should warn potential customers about this problem, or be willing to eat shipping expenses. That's nearly $40 if a customer should decide to return a kit, and the fault here is clearly BD Trims' for being sloppy with trim piece dimensions.

Conclusion - I'm 70% of the way to deciding to send this back. I want to be very careful about appearance mods. If a mod doesn't look like it could have come from the factory, it should be left off. The BD-Trim kit doesn't have the fit to look factory, which is a shame because the pieces themselves look great. For the most part this kit isn't Wal-Mart Special bad, except for the fit on the console and radio pieces, which are that bad.

I would, regretfully, recommend only getting this in a color that matches what you've already got, or not getting it at all.

Full Review:

The box:



The pieces neatly packaged in 3 layers:



The packaging arrangement is unique. The cardboard the pieces are on is itself sticky. Foam peanuts are used as spacers to hold the cardboard pieces apart and keep them from scratching the dash pieces. This is actually kind of cool.







The grain pattern of the print. The print itself is very attractive. Mine had the unique quality of looking monochromatic, except for the highlight/specular area, which took on a brown/woodish hue. I'm not sure whether I like it or not. It's different, for sure. You can't see the effect so much in these photos, because the flash coveres everything in the warm highlight color. The appearance of the wood is generally darker and monochromatic (better).









This fit could be better, but I could live with it. Ebony Zebra Wood is a better trim color for the grey interior than medium burl. It's too bad GM didn't use this color stock.





Another area where the BD Trims kit could be improved - why didn't they include the text for the switches? If I could get ahold of their .psd file, I could fix this in 20 minutes or less. It's this kind of attention to detail that makes a quality manufacturer. BD Trims skimps on the details.



HUGE GAPS!! And these pics make the gaps look better than they do in real life, if you can believe it.

Bad enough, but this is just foul:





Truly, these pieces make me want to cry, because they take everything that is good or at least acceptable about the kit and render it unuseable.

i agree...id return it..and make them pay for the return shipping...its their fault for lack of detail...it loosk stupid on the 2 peices where the wood color is underneath. the fittin is horrible...