M pinstripe

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AKM5
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M pinstripe

Post by AKM5 »

My M5 has the thin tricolor pinstripping-about worn off. Anyone have a lead on replacement. Appears the factory tape is NLA. Its damn hard to match the motorsport colors in my opinion.
alijonny
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Post by alijonny »

find a local pinstriper who can re-do the stripes by hand (unless they are thick stripes).
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Post by wkohler »

Use this info to match the colors:

Pantone Process Blue (100% Cyan)

Pantone Reflex Blue (100% Cyan + 72% Magenta + 6% Black)

Pantone Warm Red (100% Magenta + 100%Yellow)
Karl Grau
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Post by Karl Grau »

alijonny wrote:find a local pinstriper who can re-do the stripes by hand (unless they are thick stripes).
That's what I did. It's actually pretty amazing it's all done free hand.

http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=76 ... instriping
GaAlpinaOwner
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Post by GaAlpinaOwner »

good info thanks
rcbmw
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Post by rcbmw »

BMW only produced one M Technic decorating stripe for the E28 (Part number: 51 14 1 930 870) but it is large and hardly discrete. It is commonly assumed that the smaller tri-color decorating stripes were OE(M) parts but they were simply dealer-installed accessories that varied in style.

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AKM5
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Post by AKM5 »

That makes sense, since all three of my stripes are onle 1/4" wide total. Guess I'll try to locate individual thin stripis.
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