I have ordered several appearance items for my car. The last thing now to consider is strakes. What is the general opinion on strakes? Should I get them or no? If yes, I have two configurations that I am considering.

#1--Get the stainless steel strakes from the eBay seller in the U.K.

#2--Get the chrome fender vent covers to replace the black stock ones and get a set of titanium gray strakes from rx8strakes.com.

 

I would go with option 1

 

I Hate Strakes!!!!

 

no strakes!

 

Option 1, they look AWESOME!

 

strakes look so nasty..hahaha

 

eh wutever floats peoples boat. i guess bryan and i are the only ones who hate it with a passion. haha

 

i made a thread a while ago about strakes, 35% of the people that voted can't be wrong! haha

https://www.rx8club.com/polls-70/poll-strake-not-strake-74823/

 

Skip the strakes and take your car to a good body shop and have the vents made functional!!

How are the hypermax II's doing for you? Mine go on soon with RB sways, hopefully it doesn't end up too stiff....

 

How did they do that?

 

i'd like to know as well, you can always give it the homer simpson speedvents!

 

i think the proper term is "speedholes"

 

Get the stainless steel strakes!

 

your right, they were called speed holes...lol

 

I like the strakes, they just cost to much. I have them and still like them, but I still kick myself in the ***, becuse I should have used the money to buy swaybars first. if you're all about the looks go for the strakes, if not you know what to do with your money.

 

option# 3- no strakes and use that money for something else...you should make this a poll so you can get some numbers to work with.

 

I use to like strakes... now they look weird...

 

u shouldpaint ur car like hello kitty or keropi...

maybe a pikachu rx8? i ono

 

DORAEMON!!!!

Oh hell yes, that would seriously be totally bad ***!!!

-hS

 

Done already... purnrg has a pikachu rx8 on lightning yellow...

 

I have Doraemon Seat Belt covers on my blue 8... best mod ever.

-hS

 

Option 3 - neither.

 

Another vote for the stainless strakes here - I got a set from someone who had ordered then sold their car, and they're really well designed and made, and look great IMO.

The chrome vents look cheap to me, and wrong - they're clearly a plastic component chromed.

 

If you can get swaybars; hell, swaybar droplinks, for the cost of the stainless strakes, I want to know where. The stainless strakes are £65. That's the cost (almost) of a tank of gas here :P

(I got mine a bit cheaper, but that's because my car is leased and I didn't want to throw money away on things I would have to give up with the car).

 

Why dont you just tae them off before you turn in the car and resell them?