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Readie 23rd August 2018 12:22 PM

that looks good, what part is that ? the strip between bumper and body ?

CaifanSC 18th February 2021 11:20 PM

Sorry for resurrecting this thread. I think this looks very cool. I've always thought the fancy aluminum trunk hinges from the Phaeton would look right at home in the S8 D2. Those hinges, plus these would just look AWESOME.

steamship 19th February 2021 10:24 AM

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I've always thought the fancy aluminum trunk hinges from the Phaeton would look right at home in the S8 D2. Those hinges, plus these would just look AWESOME.

I remember looking at a Phaeton years ago at the same time I was checking out an A8 and the struts do look nice. Almost a shame to hide them.

CaifanSC 19th February 2021 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by steamship (Post 163223)
I remember looking at a Phaeton years ago at the same time I was checking out an A8 and the struts do look nice. Almost a shame to hide them.

Yeah, look at those things. They fit the aluminum body just perfect. Eventually I want to try to fit those into one of mine.

GH77 29th April 2021 07:14 PM

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I was gonna buy these chrome struts so thought I would take off the old ones just to check sizing.
Then had a root around in shed and saw I had some ‘chrome paint’ so started to rub them down for prep.
Then, as the black paint was coming off revealing ‘clean’ metal under I decided just to keep on going with my drill attached sander.
Then with drill attached polish disc got this result.
All in all took about an hour and a half and cost pretty much nothing!!

Thanks for the inspiration +++

Using some lying-around alloy wheel silver paint I also now have lovely silvery boot and bonnet struts too.

Bonnet struts are the originals, boot struts are SGS jobs from a few years ago which went rusty pretty quickly, I'm afraid to say. Plenty of oomph left in both though.


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Really glad I did this as the rusty struts were negating any effort put into cleaning the engine bay in particular.


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