3M Dinoc carbon fiber interior - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

yellowboxster01 · 12-10-2009, 09:28 AM

I ordered some of this stuff to do all the light switch plates and outlet covers in my dad's garage as a Christmas present. After wrapping the light switch plates and getting used to working with it...I started in my interior. Everything painted with that "soft touch" paint needed to be repainted so, I've wrapped quite a few pieces.

It's a thick vinyl with a texture and it does reflect light just as real c/f would. There's already a 3m adhesive backing. You simply peel off the backing and apply the piece to a clean part, then take some heat to it and work your way around the part. It's extremely easy to work with, when you heat it, it stretches to go around corners and such.

It's made to replicate the BMW dry carbon fiber they're using now. It looks very real and imo doesn't look cheesy at all. That's probably about $30 worth of material that I've used so far.

These are very bad pictures but, you get the general idea. It had just rained so, there are leaves in the floor board.

I'll post some better one's today, it's a nice freezing cold day today.

CJ_Boxster · 12-10-2009, 10:50 AM

Very nice! Its got that dry carbon look that i like.

Lobo1186 · 12-10-2009, 05:41 PM

I love it actually... looks very fresh and professional. im amazed and that is about as good as i can explain it.

Scbrindley · 12-12-2009, 05:38 PM

I'm usually not a fan of "fake" carbon fiber but that looks really nice. I might actually consider adding this to the '99 to add some flare to a pretty boring interior. Can you post some more pictures? What does it feel like?

Props for trying something new. Looks like you did a great job with the install.

SB

JTP · 12-12-2009, 09:45 PM

I'm not a fan of fake CF but this stuff seems very cool. I would have to see how it feels before I would commit to it. Their website has some interesting videos showing the film being applied.

http://www.carbonfiberfilm.com/

yellowboxster01 · 12-13-2009, 12:39 AM

Thanks for the great comments. Believe me, I'm not a fan either of the black and silver squares printed on vinyl. Just isn't my thing. Most faux carbon looks just as it's named. This really does look like c/f though. But to answer your question, it has a raised feel to the black print so it feels like c/f fabric would. I have a piece of real c/f raw fabric here and Dinoc is very convincing next to the fabric. I'll post a pic tomorrow.

For you two interested above. I'd be willing to send you guys out a small sample piece because I too was skeptical but, just had to bite the bullet or buy a $10 sample. Not the greatest marketing technique. I understand the stuff is pretty pricey but, I got a couple samples of other things that claimed "better than Dinoc", similar but, the fact that this stretches with heat is a serious plus. Corners and curves are no problem.

scbrintley and JTP pm me your address.

BTW, I bought it from www.carbonfibergear.com. Really good experience, great customer service and it was packaged appropriately. I happen to buy it on sale and I got the 6'x4' piece and paid about $120 but, I looked the other day and I believe it was about $170 now.

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