[TheMarc]

If I end up going with the Solterra, I will probably go with black, just to hide the cladding, but I was wondering how it would look in another colour, with the cladding painted. Anyone seen it? Or on the BZ4X?
If some of you know how to do it on Photoshop, I'd be curious to see what it looks like, particularly in all silver!

 

[Minimal talking]

I am considering just wrap these claddings…painting is pain imo. And it would be nice to hide all pianoblack inside somehow, any ideas?

 

[StevenH]

The real black fender cladding looks awesome on the Solterra. I wouldn't want to change it. A number of people who were initially turned off by it have said it has grown on them.

 

[Crumas]

The real black fender cladding looks awesome on the Solterra. I wouldn't want to change it. A number of people who were initially turned off by it have said it has grown on them.

My reservation for a Solterra Limited was Galactic Black. I think it looks fantastic with the black cladding.

 

[TheMarc]

Thanks guys, but I'm not looking to be convinced that I like it.. I would just like to see what the car looks like with them painted!
I don't dislike the idea of having them wrapped, but again, just curious if any Photoshop user would be able to show us what it would look like.

 

[Crumas]

Thanks guys, but I'm not looking to be convinced that I like it.. I would just like to see what the car looks like with them painted!
I don't dislike the idea of having them wrapped, but again, just curious if any Photoshop user would be able to show us what it would look like.

Take a look at the black bZ4X. The cladding is glossy instead of matte finish.

 

[StevenH]

Take a look at the black bZ4X. The cladding is glossy instead of matte finish.

It's a fake cladding look on the bZ4X. Not cladding. Just glossy paint on the fenders.

 

[JoeShark]

I'd be curious to the OP's question as well (especially on a white car with the cladding photoshopped white).

 

[TheMarc]

I'd be curious to the OP's question as well (especially on a white car with the cladding photoshopped white).

Thanks Joe for bringing us back on topic.. I'm not really debating whether it's real cladding or not, I'd just like to see what the car looks like painted all uniformly!
Anyone?

 

[Crumas]

Thanks Joe for bringing us back on topic.. I'm not really debating whether it's real cladding or not, I'd just like to see what the car looks like painted all uniformly!
Anyone?

TheMar… I missed where your OP said “in another color”. My bad.

 

[cmohanty]

I am considering just wrap these claddings…painting is pain imo. And it would be nice to hide all pianoblack inside somehow, any ideas?

Thanks for the idea, I was planning to do the painting, but wrapping is good and simple idea

 

[jg.]

Can you wrap a textured surface like that?

My initial thoughts on trying to make an all-body-color Solterra (because that was all I could think about after seeing those Honda Element fenders) was that obtaining and painting wheel arch moldings (or whatever they are calling them) from a bZ4X and having them painted would be the only realistic way to make the car look "normal".

It may take waiting years for some of the bZ4X's to hit the junkyards for it to be a reasonably-priced activity, but with all the safety gear preventing accidents that could take quite a while (plus you need to find separate vehicles that have been hit from different angles). I suppose there will be knockoff "crash parts" before the authentic ones are widely available second-hand.

 

[Car Jack]

The plastic fender arches (whatever you want to call them) have been a huge topic on the 2022 WRX. I had figured that the best way out would to simply go with black, which my 19 Crosstrek is. But yesterday at Wicked Big Meet, there were several 22 WRXs that had painted the fender arches, the side skirts and the front and rear bumper black areas. I have to say that all of those cars looked a million percent better. How were they done? No idea. But however it was done, it was well worth it.

 

[kaboomaboom]

Here's an image with the white color to give an idea of how it will look.

 

[bob E]

Here's an image with the white color to give an idea of how it will look.

That looks 100% better.

 

[JayEM]

That looks 100% better.

I'm not convinced on that. Makes the whole side, especially the rear quarter, more "slabby" IMO.

 

[R P]

Don't like it AT ALL!!

 

[jg.]

I'm not convinced on that. Makes the whole side, especially the rear quarter, more "slabby" IMO.

I think the shading in the back is reversed. It's tough to mix in/apply contrast to make the pieces you're photoshopping (like that's a verb) stand out, and especially with a white base there's not a good contrast to work with and make lighter in spots that are "closer to the viewer" -- so in the back just imagine the same way the front "pops out" at you.

[I realize how goofy all the word salad sounds, but it's early and I should have just waited and had more coffee before looking at this site]

 

[TheMarc]

Thanks @kaboomaboom ! Doesn't look bad! I think it's missing the mirrors painted though.Any chance to see it in Smoked carbon?

 

[jg.]

Here's a proposed GR bZ4X by Drive (Australia)

2023 Toyota GR BZ4X electric performance SUV imagined