I thought the window trim just pulls off. Would like to hear from an auditech
i have had my rs4 for nearly 8 years now and over that time i have wrapped, painted and finally fitted the oem black optics trim.
at the start my car was phantom black with the aluminium trim, i kept it like this for 3 or so years then fancied a change. i wrapped my all my trims with 3M vinyl and painted my wheels and mirrors satin black.
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/146_zps4a62a333.jpg
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/147_zps48fe6a52.jpg
it stayed like this for around 18 months, by then a couple of edges had started to lift and i had a couple of wrinkles in the roof trim caused by the door frame rubber.
so i decided it was time for a new look and set about removing the wrap. that was easier said than done, on removal it pulled some of the aluminium plateing from the front grill surround and rear bumper trim.
it came off the the roof and door trims ok (theses are solid metal, the grill surround and bumper strip are plated plastic) but left glue every where which was a knightmare to remove.
with the wrap off i decided to paint all my trims the titanium wheel and mirror colour.
i removed all the trim from the car and carefully flatted every thing off then etch primed, colour and satin laquer.
also did the wheels and mirrors to match.
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/P1000527_zpsb6da4712.jpg
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/P1000524_zps9dc65ad9.jpg
also painted the tips of my jhm exhaust.
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/P1000513_zps205e2d52.jpg
finally got board of this look and went the oem black optics route.
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/IMG_20140409_170755_zpsff2082fa.jpg
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/IMG_20140409_171102_zpsba2cdbaa.jpg
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/IMG_20140409_171516_zpsc882ca0a.jpg
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/IMG_20140409_171536_zpsa29d2256.jpg
http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r794/sarrs4/ar/IMG_20140701_163515_zps652ba4f0.jpg
if you have ali trim and want to swap it for new ali trim then you can just remove the outer metal part of the door trim leaving the plastic/rubber part behind and just clip in the new ali trim.
same goes for the rear quarter window trim, old one clips out and the new one clips in.
the hard work starts if you want to go ali to black optics. the black optics door trims are one piece so you have to remove both parts of the ali trim, which means stripping the doors and removing the window frame to get to the clips.
also the rear quarter window is different with the black optics trim, it has half the trim built into the window rubber and the roof trim is longer to finish it off.
the titanium looked awesome man!
How did the paint hold up?
the paint held up fine, just a few small chips to the front grill surround.
that’s some pretty fancy foot wear u got goin on there in the exhaust tip pics lol. thanks again for your help with my mirrors.