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Stripe Strip To Be or not to be

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05-05-2009, 10:14 PM

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Stripe Strip To Be or not to be

After almost 4 years, my original stripes are looking a bit tatty. The fronts of them are showing some white through the black where stones etc (I guess) have got them. Now the black stripes look nice (not what I ordered) but are really starting to bug me.

So do I:
1. Learn to live with it.
2. De-stripe (I'd really like to not have to worry about stripes anymore but after 4 years I'm wondering how obvious the difference would be.
3. Replace them.
a. with factory black
b. with factory white like I ordered originally
c. with one of the many, many aftermarket (some of which I assume share the foot print of the OEM's)

I'm leaning towards pulling them off and seeing how obvious the difference is and going from there but to be honest I'm afraid of just what I'd find.

So, thoughts?

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