I'm getting a custom stripe made for my R53. I want a 14 inch center stripe down the bonnet and boot with two 1/4 inch pink pin stripes on either side.

My boyfriend the vinyl guy thinks that a quarter inch is too small and that they won't show up well. I want it to be subtle.

This is the pink:



thoughts?

 

And by vinyl guy I mean the guy who does accounting for a print shop he got permission to make me a stripe.

 

Can you do a photoshop rendering? My first thought is, why mess with the Electric Blue at all, since everybody knows it is the best MINI color ever?

 

If it helps, I have white bonnet stripes with 1/4" black pin stripes on the edges of the white stripes. The car is British Racing Green and the black pin stripes are almost invisible. Not sure how much your pink stripes will stand out against blue. Maybe if you could try laying a sample piece on the car...?

 

Hot pink stripes and you want it to be subtle? Go big or go home!

 

Could you post a photo please? Black is a little bit closer to BRG than pink is to EB, but I'd still like to see it. I know a lot of companies do thick stripes with accent stripes-- but I have no idea how wide their accent stripes are since I've never seen them in public, let alone take a tape measure to them.

I'd really like to get it right the first time because as designed, the graphic is exactly 15 inches wide-- the same width as the bottom of the scoop. 14 inch stripe + 1/4 gap and 1/4 pin stripe on either side. If the pin stripes are too small, I'll pretty much have to redo the whole thing. But I'm really leaning towards having the accent stripe be too small than too big. I like my stuff to have just a little bit of an edge to them, such as my last set of track wheels... which were time attacked in hot pink.

 

Does this help?

 

Digging in the archives, I've found some pretty good photos of cars with 1/4 and 1/2 inch accent stripes and I've decided to try my luck with 1/4 inch. I hope to install it this weekend... there will be photos.

 

Thanks! I like how thick your black accent is, even if you can't see if very well.

 

just for the sake of comparison, I have an 8" wide center stripe, with 1/2" stripes spaced out 1/2".