Same here. Wouldn't work on a dark coloured car but on anything bright or pale then looks pretty good. Its a fairly standard styling finish these days.

Not sure though about the 'carbon effect'; what make are they Fluff?

Milotec do some available here;- Skoda Octavia II - B pillar covers -6pcs set- CF look MILOTEC : Skoda Tuning = superskoda.com

..... but I'm not keen on 1. the shiny/gloss finish and 2. the 'Milotec' badge. Have been thinking of getting some plain matt sticky back 'carbon fibre' sheet instead.

These are the milotec ones I have in the pic's mate, I got them off Ebay in the end from a guy who bought them for a vRS then sold it to get a new TT and never fitted them.

they come with the infill's for the small strip on the rear window and I gave one of them a go over with some P2000 polishing paper (wet and dry, fine stuff for polishing alloy) and they are now satin black

I think I will probably grab some more P2000 then take the fake carbon finish off the rest of the strips and fit them. When you stand back and look at the car from a distance it makes side's look less "slab like" and does look really good with the OEM sunshades giving the privacy glass effect.

I will post up some pics once I have it all sorted.

I like them - though I agree, satin black would be better

Plain black would look so much better.