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Apex Seeker said:
Stradale, thanks for the insight. My car will be GT Silver ext and, as I mentioned, black leather interior. I have also selected the option to paint the seat backs in exterior color (GT Silver). Although the silver stitching would be a great contrast, I still think that having the whole stitching package may be touch much. I would not have considered the yellow belts if it were not for the PCCb's. Having said that, I also kind of agree with your assessment
that a safety feature probably should not stand out. I have also added leather package switch panel, instrument surround in leather, and leather door finishers. With all of the black leather on the inside I was looking for some contrast. What is you opinion on adding only the silver seat belts without deviating stitching on the rest of the interior? This would still create some contrast inside and complement the other accents in silver in the interior, including the seat backs. 
Instead of seat backs painted in exterior color I'd go with Aluminum look seat backs. But to be honest given your options I'd go with seat backs in leather. I'm seriously considering this option now. Have you seen them? Stitching running along the whole back of the seat looks awesome. If you didn't have the vents in leather selected I'd add the leather PCM consule. But I'd make the vents CF w/ the PCM leather, Gear lever and E brake CF w/ leather center consule. The real "contrast" comes from the dark interior and the GT-Silver. Getting rid of the Vulcano Grey interior pieces (seat backs & pcm consule) is the way I'm going to go. ..... I'm not a fan of using exterior paint to paint interior pieces. For my tastes this cheapens the interior, plastic looking in a way. The stitching in a black interior is kind of deviated anyway, it's a dark grey and I think Porsche did this really well. It goes especially well with an Artic or GT-silver or Meteor car w/ black interior. Without the stock dark grey stitching and with the amount of added leather in your car I wouldn't do the silver belts either. There's a reason why so many concept cars I see don't have seat belts visible. It's beacuse the just aint pretty, clutters up the interior, imho having them in a more standout color other than black also doesn't mesh well with the high end interior. But I know people here have them and others like them so it's just my opinion obviously. I mean you want to notice beauty of the interior not the seatbelts, not me anyway. The interior in all black leather would be deep, like a puddle of oil (hard to explain how I see it) The only thing I'd consider is to add carbon fiber especailly on the vents instead of leather and carbon fiber trim strip/gear & brake lever. This pure carbon fiber line across the dash (vents & trim strip) w/ the cf gear selecter and leather rear consule imho is the hottest interior...That's what I'm going to do anyway w/ some slight variations. Carbon Fiber & Leather. It may sound a little dark but it will look deep & rich. This way looks- VERY Serious........
Don't mean to sound even more confusing but if this isn't your tastes and you want to "complement the other accents in silver in the interior, order the vents in alum look w/ black leather vent slats and alum look PCM consule (if it's available yet) and alum look seat backs, leathet rear center consule, no alum on the doors or other pieces though
sorry if there's lots of mistakes, I'm really beat, don't have the energy to re read/correct & I'm loopy so it may not make sense & it was way too long to begin with. goodnight. Martha Porsche Stewart.
....but 997TT's interior architecture has a lot more stitchwork than 996TTS, so deviated stitching might be overkill..... 
Just my opinion. 
