To the first pic, the red does look awesome. I think the black on grey will also look awesome, go for the trim, not the rims.
Do you have a shop that will do it for 150?!?
haha I’m not brave enough to rock red wheels. I think it’s a cool combo. Reminds me of a local gt3 rs in that colour scheme.
Bora, I haven’t found a shop (haven’t looked) but i was asking NY07RS4 if he would bother doing it if someone would do it for $150
I think for that money I would get it done in a heartbeat. You figure that’s about $30 in materials, and leaves $40 per hour for 3 hours of work ($20 for the shop per hour, $20 for their employee)
Seems fair
Ian, i did this on my a6 and it was a bit of a pain the dick to do. I used Shadowline matte black vinyl found here: http://shadowlinetrim.com/ id probably get 2 rolls of 3" so you dont have to cut it in half, and may have better luck around the windows. rolls are like 20 bucks each.
getting the parts that curve around the windows is the hardest. i cut the strip in half to try to save some material, which resulted in it being hard to wrap around the windows without cutting and starting a new line. up close you can see where the tape ends and starts, and over lapping tape pops out a bit. from 3 feet away it looks perfect though. Also, you need to give yourself some “slack” and not cut the vinyl perfect to size, it will shrink, and it may be a good idea to use a hair dryer to help it shrink so you know where you can cut
for the price of the vinyl tape, you could try it yourself, and if it doesnt work just peel it off. i would say it could take up to 2 hours depending on how much you do. flat lines are obviously the easiest (trunk trim)
i dont have many pics of it upclose, just the car completed
For $150 yes I would have a shop do it. That’s not a terrible price imo, they would do a better job than me and I wouldn’t have to use up my time. Win win. Now find me a shop local to me who will do it for $150.
It took me about 3 hrs DIY without anyone’s help. Materials were about 40 dollars plus another $50 for a heat gun (required) lots of sharp blades. If you don’t have patience then I would hire someone but I would imagine it would cost at least $200.
I did it myself with the shadowline vinyl mentioned previously. I didn’t use a heat gun or anything. It took a few hours and was frustrating to do it without any air bubbles. In the end it looks great from beyond 3 feet. To others, it looks fine up close as well, but I know where all my little screw ups are and haven’t been truly happy with it. I’m just lazy about finding a shop to do it professionally. Two rolls of the 3 inch vinyl is plenty and leaves a little left over.
I would go to a shop any pay $150 in a heartbeat. Consider what your time and effort are worth and then consider that they’ll do a better job. Add the cost of material on top of that and you realize that it’s well worth the money to pay a professional shop to do it.
-Skid
Saw a ti package rs4 yesterday… And it’s going to be hard to resist doing that.
Keeping the ti pkg wheels and getting quotes for the trim and grille surround wrap ;D
If you want to do a vinyl wrap on them, I can link you to a cheap place that has decent 3M 1080 wrap…
http://stores.ebay.com/AutoVinylSolutions/3M-1080-Matte-Vinyl-Colors-/_i.html?_fsub=4760598015
As for DIY, the curves and edges on a window trim are going to be a challenge. I recently wrapped my interior dash trims brushed aluminum and those curves and corners were a bitch to make it look pinched.
Here’s a pic for reference (I’ve already whored it out on AZ so why not here)
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/14/juzutune.jpg
That’s crazy. Looks great
What’d you have before, wood?
So you don’t like carbon fibre…and went aluminium.
FYI - you should contact the guy at what’s it called…carbon wrapping guy who sponsors AZ. Can’t remember his name.
The aluminium (OEM) is a pain in the ass to remove from the plastic trim back, so when he gets a set of it in, he will always trade wood for the aluminium straight up. Free. You pay for the shipping back and forth (send your set of wood in exchange for his aluminium) Not the fishscale weird A4 stuff…the real deal aluminium.
If you get to the point where you want the real aluminium, hit him up and let him know you are ready to trade.
I had the woodgrain trim. I am honestly not a big fan of CF, looks nice on certain scheme but would look out of place with my DG scheme. I considered looking for a piano black trim but those are rare.
His name is Matt @ O’Carbon and he rarely has the aluminum trim in. When he does, they get swapped up quickly. He also says that they are sometimes damages. I’m picky about broken things so I figure I’ll just go ahead and remove it myself, wrap it myself then re-install it myself.
I’ll hit him up when I’m ready but for the moment, my faux brushed aluminum actually feels like brushed aluminum.
Any luck on a quote Saki? $150 seems very reasonable.
Matt does top notch work, I had him do the silver carbon for my B5.
Is there a reason why Piano black anything is so hard to find?
Back to Saki, did you remove your roof rails on the Avant? I looking into doing the trim on mine, I’m curious what else you come up with.
No luck yet.
One place was keen to say it would be impossible to do lol. Not sure why. They claimed there’s nowhere to wrap the trim around however that’s not true. I just think the job was too small nd they didn’t want to do it.
I’m pretty interested in this, although I see a full respray in my future. If I do go full respray, will my trim be taped off or removed? If removed, then wrap or try and find some black trim.
It’s funny that I’m going to all these lengths to make my car look like my mum’s A4 or my old A3 lol.
Have you guys considered plastidip for the trim? I recall others using it with reasonable results. I personally like the fake matte aluminum trim on my mugello blue, but absolutely love Ti on every color RS4 except for the really dark ones (eg, PB and MB).
As a complete aside, my wife wanted me to have the factory wheels painted or powdercoated black on her car, but I am going to try going the plastidip+glossifier route for shits and giggles.
Plasti-dip is also a nice option but a consistent application is key. I used it on several interior pieces and it looks pretty good.
I can never get plastidip smoothe. It’s always rough. Don’t like it.
Hey Sakimano… did you ever find a place to wrap the trim? Ill need it done on my car in the future, and wanted to see how it turned out for you.
I sent 5 online/email requests for quotes
1 response (no)
4 didn’t respond
I’m going to try the phone next time.
Figures. I remember seeing a Winter Special on one of the BMW boards awhile back. It was $150 to blackout the trim. So, it should be doable for around that price. Only problem is that I think this is the busy time of year for these guys. Maybe we would have better luck with a group buy. If we arranged 10+ cars at $149-$199, then they might take notice.