Yep, just sounds like you're missing a carbon texture.
A lot of cars that can be downloaded will come with one, and you can normally find one in most mods.
Here is an archive with three different versions: [
www.dropbox.com]
'Carbon0' is a traditional checker-board style, and came with some cars I downloaded (Probably MDBSnake's)
'Carbon1' and 'Carbon2' are my own creation; 'Carbon1' is a diagonal pattern (that probably looks a lot like other diagonal patterns!), and 'Carbon2' is another checker-board style, but with a few more shades of grey than 'Carbon0'.
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