What have you done to your Audi today??

[Treza360]

Looks the goods Gavin. You need to get some tint happening though mate. As fun as fishbowls some darkest legal all around will get it looking properly sinister.
Cheers,
Trent

[h100vw]

Looks the goods Gavin. You need to get some tint happening though mate. As fun as fishbowls some darkest legal all around will get it looking properly sinister.
Cheers,
Trent

I know what you mean mate, thinking black mirror covers too?

I don't like your world Jimmy

Gavin

[h100vw]

Did this last week.

[Treza360]

I was going to say black grill and black mirrors always look the ducks nuts but you're already half way there. Go the whole hog...
Cheers,
Trent

[h100vw]

Got to do the rings on the boot lid too for full effect. That'll mean new ones, I don't see there's any way of getting them off in one piece.
Gavin

[Treza360]

Copy cat.

[h100vw]

Still not blackened my ring s.

I am stiffer now though, after fitting the brake stiffening kit from the recent group buy.

Can't comment on any improvement yet as backing out of the garage doesn't constitute a test drive.

Did intend to drop the gearbox oil and redline it. Then found the special tool I bought doesn't work. I just need a 14mm allen key.

Anyone needing the use of a tamperproof M16 spline drive let me know. Mine was $20, which was cheap.

Gavin

[gareth_oau]

h100vw, what was your process for blackening your front grill/rings?

any complications or tricky bits?

[h100vw]

All started out by stripping the grill from my A3 that got wrecked. The trim and rings are easy to unclip with the grill off.

Then I cleaned them up with soapy water and a nail brush. Dried in the sun and wiped with some panel wipe to get the greasy finger prints off.

Sprayed with high build primer and then satin black over the top.

When the time came to fit them though, it started to go wrong....

I managed to get the grill off without removing the bumper, which was a chore. I fitted the rings and then discovered that the outer trim is different on the S3 from the A3.

So my quick swap ended up being a bit longer, while I painted the outer trim.

That pretty much covers it.

HTH

Gavin

[gareth_oau]

cheers Gavin, when you have a spare 10 minutes could you pop round and do mine for me?