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30th April 2012, 08:05 PM
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OK, I have painted my trims with sparkling silver powder paint.
I have chosen this approach because trims will last forever once power painted. I've done this in www.myalloys.co.uk and the cost for 5 trims was 120 pounds including VAT. I have also refurbished 8 alloy wheels with them using the same sparkling silver color. I'm very pleased the with result. I'll be removing lower door trims as well as wing trims to paint them the same way. Power paint color is not as shiny as chrome -- it is kind of glittery. All my lower trims including wheels will be the same glittery color. Those upper trims around windows I'm changing to new original anodised aluminium ones from Audi and I'm also installing A6 C6 handles with chrome strip, so the car will have two "belts" of chrome. Lower belt including wheels -- sparkling silver powder paint and upper belt of classic shiny chrome including handles and chrome around windows. The reason why I adopted this approach is because my lower trims were in much worse condition than the trims around windows. A lot of things are going on at lower part of the car and it seems trim just doesn't survive in those conditions. Pictures! I decided to leave pictures without reducing their size for you to 'understand' texture of this paint.
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I'd rather drive on left Last edited by notorious; 30th April 2012 at 08:11 PM. 
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9th May 2012, 09:18 PM
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I'm looking to buy the OEM satin black trim, I'm not really a fan of external brightwork.
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9th May 2012, 09:29 PM
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9th May 2012, 09:45 PM
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I wasn't aware either, I never even knew the trims were available in Satin Black, this thread drew my attention to it.
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6th April 2015, 01:40 AM
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Interesting read fellas...
Just resurrecting this thread for a couple of questions: Notorious, did you ever get the side trims painted? If so how did it go? As the polished portion of the side trim is an insert of the rubbing strip, did you remove the aluminium portion (I expect this invites damage if it's possible at all?), or have it taped off? I'm looking to do something similar as my trims were painted black by the prev owner and have started to peel. Also the lower front (S8) grille surround has taken 14 years of punishment and I'm looking to improve its appearance.
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