I swear the dealership has a bad taste in what looks good on a truck. For example putting Pin Stripes on the both sides of the truck. I know there's a percentage of consumers that like the stripes and percentage that don't like the stripes. The Stripes on the truck looks retarded. I wanna hear, your guys input on the Pin Stripes. I Ripped does puppys off like a couple hours ago tonight.:roll:

yeah dealer put them on mine too...heres a pic of what it looked like a few days before i went to pick it up....i told them to be off by the time i came and picked it up...and they were, it wasn't a problem!

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c120/umwmike/DSC00491.jpg

When they are used to brake the line of a solid color they are ok. But on an e with unpainted panels, that looks like Shi#.

I have ever seen a pin stripe that was dealer installed that looked anywhere near even moderately decent. Mine had the pin striping as part of a "package" the dealer puts together. I never saw my E with the stripe but told them that if they didn't remove he pin striping then I would not buy from them. It was removed before I got to the dealer.

yeah can you actually believe that the pin stripe was an extra 60 dollars?? I was like....uh you can remove it and charge me 60 dollars less, and i'll be a happy camper

yeah can you actually believe that the pin stripe was an extra 60 dollars?? I was like....uh you can remove it and charge me 60 dollars less, and i'll be a happy camper


did they still charge you on the pin stripes after they removed it?

haha of course not, i woulda been PISSED!

I think the E lends itself nicely to a good pinstriping job. Plenty to work with if the pin strips are done by a real pin stripe artist who understands body lines and has some creative edge about em. Dealer pinstrips (tape jobs) usually are hideous looking mistakes done by gimps who's taste is strickly in their mouths. Pin Striping is a damn near lost automotive art but art it is and I've seen some excellent work. I'll get my E done too soon as I can afford $100-$200 and locate a good artist.

Ellie, being in Southern Cali there are quite a few amazing pinstripers there... just look around... but $100-200 might not even come close to being enough for a good striping job.

I agree with you about quality work being nice when done properly.

Hi Larry. So ya think I've under estimated the cost of a true pin stripe job? I bet you're right but hoping you're not. What's a first rate job cost in your area?

I had a handle on a artist that my hubby knows. He used to custom paint motorcylces and does superb pin striping. I am told his hands are as shakey as Kate Hepburn in a helicopter but becomes very steady when working with the sword brush. He's probably spray painted too many years without a mask. He's unreliable and hardly ever sober. But I can get him cheap if we can find him we just don't know where to look for him these days.

I have no idea what a pin stripe job would cost, but I can't imagine it only costing a couple hundred. It would have to cost $500 or more, again depending on how detailed you want the striping and extras.

Pinstriping always looks like an add-on...

...like a bad toupee that everone but the owner knows is a bad idea...

...or a set of expensive chromed rims on a Hyundai :twisted:

Try to show me a picture of a good pinstripe job. :rolleyes:

I like my pinstriping... it's not obnoxious - actually quite subtle - and has the Honda H in it which looks pretty cool IMPO...
http://lifeizgood.ws/page2.html (http://lifeizgood.ws/page2.html) 1st and 2nd pics
and
http://lifeizgood.ws/page3.html (http://lifeizgood.ws/page3.html) 4th pic

I have the same striping as lifeizgood. Hampton Roads dealers First Team and Williams love this stuff. The reason they love it is what other 'option' costs ~$15 in parts and can be charged up to 10 times that amount. Pure profit.

Looks good on the lighter colors; but I think on the Black it looks like a$$. I like my clean NBP without stripes; stripes ar for suits!! ;) I'm gonna be very hesitant about putting any stickers on my E; well with the exception of the EOC.com sticker. :D

I reminds me of when I got my Civic in 1999. They broke something on the car I ordered when I went to pick it up so they tried giving me one with gold trim, which in my opinion, looked really cheesy. When I demanded the silver they tried "but it costs extra and we are giving to you for free." Whereas I replied, "but its ugly and I don't want it."

I like my E's subtle pinstripes - although I agree that it might be too much going on with the unpainted panels. On mine you can barely see them, they are in coordinating colors and are a nice touch to make my E look a tad different from the others. Some of the stripes and swooshes I have seen called pinstripes are not really pinstripes. Pinstripes are supposed to look like they were drawn with a pen and accent the paint and the car's lines, not contrast with it. More similar to the barely perceptible striping on a man's pinstripe suit to make him look taller and thinner for instance. A bit fat contrasting swoosh from one fender to the other is NOT a pinstripe, no matter what the dealer calls it.
However, I was not charged extra for mine - the dealer threw them in because I wanted only the Tangerine E and they had just this one....with the pinstripe. I liked them if they were free, but was not going to forego another option I really wanted to get them within my budget.

They had grey pinstripes on my kiwi E when I went to say hi to it the first time. (I'd already worked out the deal over the internet). I said "You guys put pinstripes on it? Blech!" and the sales guy was like "You don't like those?" and I said "Nope! How hard is it to remove them?" and he says "Well, it's a fair bit of work but I can have them do it if you really want". So, they came off by the time I picked the Isotope up.

Now, I have some silver flames that I want to put down the sides of it, but I'm still pondering that idea. Flames are one thing... pinstripes are stupid. (Of course, these flames might also look stupid too, we'll see!)

I dont mind my pin stripes. I can see why some people don't like them. Sometimes they just shouldn't be put on. I don't know if you can see mine. They're white, but don't look too bad against the Atomic Blue. :D