Hey, this tread may be pretty tough to match.

I would like to see pictures of owners who made the decision to never install stripes on their Coupe or simply remove them.

Mine never came with stripes from new. I will post pictures in a few days.

 

Here is one owner whom just posted up in the R58 pics thread.





Hopefully more will chime in.

 

Here it is. Picture taken today from the 5th floor of the building where I work.

I believe a no stripe Mini overall look very classy and the metallic paint job is overall more reflective with the subtle body shapes of the hood, roof and deck lid. Nothing is hidden about the curves with the color break down of the stripes.

This is just a matter of personal preferences.

 

Another picture showing the front end with no stripes.

Sorry for the quality. This is just road bugs splash all over.

 

WTH is across the top of the windshield on the blue R53 in this picture ?!

 

Looks like LED light bar.

 

Emergency response vehicle ?

 

 

Nice and clean, what happen to the front badge ? Are you debadging and filling it in ?

 

Took off the front badge cuz I had to remove an old stripe. But am thinking about debadging the whole car.

 

Ok, yea i could see a hair of ghosting from the stripes, some buffing and rubber compound and then wax will take that off. You will have it fill it and paint or maybe some color match wrap in little pieces.

 

Good luck with the polishing and paint match.

 

That's the same paint I have and that looks pretty good. Don't have a pic but the black roof stripes on my car faded so I had the dealer remove them. The red ones still look good. There's another guy in Prescott with the same car (JCW too) in a 2012.