Carbon DTM wing mirrors

[Chris]

Has anyone seen any of the carbon fibre effect DTM wing mirrors on any cars (the ones that look like little panda ears)? I've seen chrome ones and colour coded ones, but I can't really be arsed with gettin paint mixed up, and I never get the paint-jobs perfect.

I was thinking of getting some carbon effect mirrors on my reflex green metallic bravo... to replace the standard black ones... what does everyone think?

 

[Chris]

Come on someone reply

 

[Dug]

Re: Re: Carbon DTM wing mirrors

I think this is an entirely personal decision: why do you need advice?

Personally I hate the 'carbon fibre' look on accessories. Carbon fibre is used where weight must be saved at all costs, on structural components. It's far too expensive to use on items where plastic will do. Plastic is the ideal material for a wing mirror: it's cheap, light and plenty strong enough. Carbon fibre would be complete overkill, so why would you want to make the correct material look like something it isn't?

Incidentally, that's why I hate the Ferrari F-40. It has carbon-fibre body panels, stuck to an alloy space frame! If you wanted to make the car as light as possible, you'd use a carbon fibre monocoque and do away with the space frame: Ferrari used carbon fibre on this car as a marketing exercise, and for no other reason that I can see.