It seems to be similar to a 1rst gen ranger or s10, or any small truck from 80s or 90s. You might find one on car lot ,and use it for a surrogate fit.
Subaru is 16 years old, Honda is 15, and we also have a Pontiac Vibe (secret Toyota) at 17. We're old enough now I don't think we'll drive any new vehicles into the ground, although I may end up in the ground sooner than later. I totally get the agonizing thing. That's us. But our new rides probably won't be this long if I survive.
Missing stuff initially is no big deal. Unless you really need to finance it with the truck, you're only out shipping costs if you add it later. Getting stuff that you end up not liking is a bigger worry - and the reason my pre-order build will stay pretty light on add-ons. No doubt we'll see plenty of reviews of options and accessories once trucks hit people's driveways.
Tilts and telescopes! I remember one of the engineers saying that they wanted a basic steering wheel, but the company they contacted said they could have the tilt/telescoping ones for less so they went for it.
So, just order later. That's the joy of the product!
Hmm... That is a pickle.
I agree here. It's a huge guessing game because I'm sure my monitor isn't calibrated.
Even with a calibrated monitor, the colors on the configurator and in the 3d rendering simulator are only very loose approximations. A few of us got wrap swatches based on their old color names that matched to the 3M 2080 line, and they're very different in person.
$10 each is much too high. Most wrap shops sell 3x5 swatches for ~ $1.00 each. Or a full fan deck of the entire product line for $20 - $40.
Local wrap shops don't have to sell those swatches online, don't offer a complete wrap for $1000, and don't have tens of thousands of customers queued up trying to decide on a wrap in the next few months. The question to ask isn't what should it cost? The question is what would it be worth?
I've emailed them twice now with a few questions around the source of the materials, questions about materials for those that want to "wrap their own", and about making swatch books available.
I don't think full decks for solid gloss, solid satin, and "specialty" films (the flip-flops and the microflakes) for $10 each is unreasonable. I would not expect all films to come on a single card as that makes changes quite costly. Of course Slate might choose another way to classify them based on material cost, but my thoughts seem reasonable having priced a lot of car striping film over the years.
As OEMs one assumes sources like Avery and 3M have the facilities to make custom swatch books. I would not expect Slate to produce these directly.
Maybe I misunderstood, but my reading was that @Kopsis was proposing a price of $10 per color swatch, not a full fan deck. $10 per deck for each of the finish levels would be a great price.
I have no doubt their wrap partners would be the ones actually producing the fan books. The issue is that Slate is branding colors with their own unique names, and offering only a limited selection of the full 3M/Avery/Whoever lines. So it would need to be a Slate branded deck of Slate's chosen colors. Having the standard 3M deck doesn't do me any good if I don't know which 3M color name maps to which Slate color name, or which 3M colors aren't available with Slate's custom adhesive blend.
