de chromed
 

has anyone ever or seen a pic of a fully dechromed A8?

i always wanted to do this on my A8 as the trim had gone milky and thought it would be a nice tuff look, but it made it to heaven before i had a chance to do it

defo not doing it to the S8 but it would look good on a dark coloured car i think

someone do it :cool:

I intend to. My ally has gone all milky to. machine polished it back to former glory but only lasted a fortnight. So satin black it is. ;)

No how do you remove it without damage......

The later cars, probably yours included have got the upper trims held in by only philips screws. I reckon they could easily be removed and resprayed. Earlier cars were rivetted. Just prize off the rubber trims at the top of the doorways and voila. The rubbers just press back on.

Door trims, bumpers could be painted more easily in situ.....

Hmmmm tomorrows task methinks.

how did you get on with this? did you post pics up elsewhere that i've missed?

I started but found only the trim over the doors down the A piller comes of with undoing the screws. The trim down the D piller is slotted in place and I couldn't bring myself to wrestle with it in case I damaged it. The trim along the bottom of the doors is easy and I have had that off and done a bit of satin black spraying but bit happy with it yet. Will post some pics when I am.

Sounds good!
I'm doing all the plastics gloss black which includes, the front grilles, lower bumper trims and the lower side door trims.
Will be a while before I get it done though, got a lot more important mechanical things to be sorting first!

I've heard of vinyl tape being used to de-chrome. Cant find it at the mo but I distinctly remember seeing a bm 7 series owners site where he used the above with excellent results. Might be worth looking into.

Pearse.

What were you doing on a BMW 7 series owners sight! :tuttut:

Is this what you mean? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-E39-M5-E46...1%7C240%3A1318

Yep, that's the stuff. Looks pretty good to me.

I put my hand up and freely admit I almost bought one. Could still be talked into a a 740i Sport. And don't tell me you wouldn't :)