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Originally Posted by BlackCaGuy
I've been looking around and see a problem. For many cosmetic overlays, such as carbon fiber door handle covers, front bumper lips, e brake boot, armrest cover and dashboard instrument cluster, and other various interior and exterior parts, seems to want roughly 4 times I would expect parts should be.
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Composites engineer here.
Let me guess. You aren't involved in manufacturing composite parts (or anything else), right?
There are a lot of costs that you are probably overlooking here. There's generally a substantial difference in cost between something made to look like CF and something actually made from CF.
Besides that, most of this stuff is pretty low-volume, tooling costs and R&D need recovery, and some of this stuff is made to order.
That's why 3M makes Dy-noc, after all. Because for many people, shopping at Walmart is an everyday reality.