yeah, i also was mislead on those, i wasn't expecting plastic, especially for the chrome pieces, i'll live with it now though, but for my blue emblems i'm painting the red inserts blue to match, hope it isn't to much but i'm envisioning it looking sharp.

As for the carbon fiber pattern, i think it looks sharp, would you be painting those black cause there the only set w/o the holes? and what brand of struts, where you getting those